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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
- Type of resource
- 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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- https://mediaburn.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Media Studies, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Extensive, groundbreaking archive of freely available independent video content from the USA. Media Burn’s mission is to preserve audiovisual records of history and culture and to make them available to anyone who wishes to see them. The archive has been accumulated over the 40-year career of videomaker and tv producer Tom Weinberg. The content derives from Weinberg’s own shows, from work by friends of Weinberg, or from donors including Bill Veeck and Studs Terkel.
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- https://www.about-face.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Media Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Streaming/Download
Site which aims to equip girls and young women with the tools to resist media messages which affect self-esteem and body image. The Gallery of Offenders part of the site is devoted to examples from television and print media (mainly from the US mainstream media, especially advertising) which portray women in a negative, belittling or inappropriately sexual way. The Gallery of Winners, on the other hand, picks examples which are positive, celebratory or progressive.
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- http://www.google.com/doodles
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Design, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- 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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- http://www.historicfilms.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Medicine
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
A New York-based stock footage company specialising in music and entertainment. The site contains over 45,000 individual performances from over 35 different television networks and programmes including Elvis Presley’s first TV appearances to recent concert performances. Over 10,000 television commercials are held from 1948-1980. Researchers are requested to register before clips can be previewed online.
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- https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, American Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Organisations, Streaming/Download
Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. The online collection includes five excerpts from stop-motion advertising developed for Coca-Cola between 1954 and 1956 by the D’Arcy agency and makes public for the first time eighteen excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964, which determined the best lighting for the cans, bottles, and performers in television advertisements. Featured advertisements include the 1971 "Hilltop" commercial with an international group of young people on an Italian hilltop singing "I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke"; the "Mean Joe Greene" commercial from 1979; the first "Polar Bear" commercial from 1993; the "Snowflake" commercial from 1999; and "First Experience," an international commercial filmed in Morocco in 1999. The site includes a bibliography, a history of television advertising and a timeline of advertising themes.
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- https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Advertising
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Streaming/Download
AdViews is a collection of thousands of digitised television advertisements created for clients or acquired by the D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s. It is part of Duke University Library’s digital collections. The collection is browsable by subject, company and title and features commercials for products by well-known global brands, including Kraft, Vicks, Birds Eye, Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and General Motors. The collection features a number of expert interviews with academics and archivists, who talk about the digitisation process and how the collection has been used in teaching at Duke University. Former CEO of D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Roy Bostock speaks about the history of the agency and some of the clients with whom he worked.
The collection is also hosted at the Internet Archives.
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- https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Agriculture, Architecture, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This resource provides over 200 film clips about Scotland with the aim of documenting a century of social, economic and environmental changes in Scottish lives. Primarily aimed at Scottish schools, the clips are available to download for Glow and Shibboleth users but the streamed films can be viewed by anybody. Each clip has a synopsis, production details and comes with a list of questions and suggested activities for students and teachers. The result of a partnership project between Education Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and Creative Scotland, the collection is carefully chosen and covers a variety of themes, including Scottish industry, architecture, fashion, tourism, music, rural communities, the growth of towns and cities, football, immigration, health and Scotland’s experience of World War II. The footage encompasses home movies, adverts, animation, public information films, party political broadcasts, industrial films and fiction films.
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- http://new-moon.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, Environmental Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Website of the production company responsible for creating and promoting the films for London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The site is divided into three main sections: ‘Corporate and Brand Films’; ‘Original Content’ and ‘Sports Bids & Campaigns’. Various films and trailers are available for viewing on the site, including Eurostar - A New Age of Travel. which reimagines the GPO Film Unit’s documentary ‘Night Mail’ as well as Definitely Not A Fairy Story, an animated warning about the dangers of climate change made for the Department of Energy & Climate Change.
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- https://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Advertising, Media Studies, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
A well-designed site for finding out about the music used in UK television adverts. Listed alphabetically by brand and giving a short description (although no year), the entry links directly to YouTube for viewing and Amazon/ITunes for purchase of track on CD or as download. A post can be placed on the Forum to try to find information on ads not already listed.
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