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- https://tvtropes.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies
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- Databases, Information Sources, Lists
This entertaining and informative site attempts to categorise, index and contextualise tropes - storytelling devices or conventions - as they appear in television programmes, films, games, music, literature, and other media. There are four main indexes: Genre Tropes, Media Tropes, Narrative Tropes and Topical Tropes. Each of these main headings is further subdivided so that under the Narrative Trope heading, for example, one can explore Characters, Conflict, Motifs Settings etc., down to a microscopic level of detail. The site began in 2004, primarily focusing on the television series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’. Since then it has vastly expanded its scope to cover most types of media. Users can explore by series or trope. Each series entry features a list of tropes associated with that series, whereas users exploring by trope (British Teeth, for example) will find a list of that trope’s appearance in television, film, literature etc. Although the approach is often humorous the site represents an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring or analysing the building blocks of storytelling and narrative construction, in any medium, but particularly television.
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- http://www.google.com/doodles
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Design, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Organisations
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. The Archive pages, arranged chronologically, preserve the Doodles of past years celebrating, for example, the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, St Valentine’s Day, the Mexican 2015 elections and Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday. Clicking on the Doodle, some of which are animated and/or interactive, gives interesting information on the illustrator, the creative process and details of the event/celebration behind the logo.
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- https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, American Studies, Architecture, Environmental Studies, Geography, Photography, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Distributors, Footage Sources
Gigantic company offering rights managed and royalty free content, including moving images, music as well as stills. Getty now manages collections previously known as Image Bank and Archive Films (see separate entries).
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- http://www.hatads.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Databases
The History of Advertising Trust exists to encourage and subsidise the study of advertising and related subjects in the UK. Its archive holds collections of advertising, marketing/retail, media and public relations material from 1800 to the present day. The archive collection includes moving image materials, details of some of which can be traced through the Archive’s partial catalogue through the University of East Anglia. Content can also be accessed via the ARROWS subscription service.
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- https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/search.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums
This subscription service provides access to the content of the History of Advertising Trust. Thousands of television adverts can be searched by title and brand as well as the names of the director, producer, art director and writer.
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- https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Design, Media Studies, Radio Studies
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
Ad*Access offers a database of over 7,000 advertisements from American and Canadian newspapers, 1911-1955. It covers five main areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, using images from the collection at Duke University. The database is browsable by date, company, product, headline, and keyword, with large searches being conveniently divided into years with the number of hits indicated. The images can be viewed in enlarged form at 72 or 150 dpi, and are accompanied by basic catalogue information.
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- https://www.4sales.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Business Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Producers/Broadcasters, TV/Radio listings
Previously branded as In4mer, this Channel 4 site provides a fair amount of empirical data that will be of educational use. It gives details on a number of its programmes, as well as those shown of its digital channels, E4 and Film Four, with a breakdown by demographic group, as well copies of press releases about its schedules and its staff. Details are also given about its advertising rates and contact names and numbers for its featured programmes.
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- http://bufvc.ac.uk/archives/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Biology, Botany, Dance, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Nature, Radio Studies, Sports Science
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Web Links
The RGO is a database of over 650 film, television, radio and related documentation collections and artefacts in the United Kingdom and Ireland, designed for use by researchers. These physical artefacts combine to represent all the key practices within screen history including the magic lantern, film, television and the digital present. They include magic lanterns and slides, optical toys, film production equipment, television and video equipment, cinema equipment and fittings, artwork for animation, sets and costumes, sound technology, toys and games and documentation such as photographs, scripts, sheet music and personal papers. The database covers national and regional archives as well stockshot libraries and collections held by local authorities, museums, institutions of further and higher education, industrial companies and private individuals.
Each record has live e-mail and weblinks, and the data is regularly updated by the BUFVC’s Information Service.
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- http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Advertising, Film Studies, Media Studies, Photography, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Technology
This site is devoted to the many different types of widescreen processes that have proliferated practically from when film production first began. The style is occasionally irreverent, but the information is sound and there are a vast number of practical examples, all liberally illustrated with screen grabs from video versions and the original frames. There are also sections devoted to the history of colour film, the development of sound, film posters and much more.
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- https://www.firstlightvideo.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Classics, Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Media Studies, Medicine, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Video Sources
Leading American producer and distributor of educational videos and DVDs. These cover a wide range of subjects, including Acting, Animation, Dance, Film, Video & TV Production, Multimedia, Radio Production, Scriptwriting, Shakespeare and Theatre. It is possible to search by keywords and by subject category. All materials are in the NTSC format.
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