Links
Related Organisations
AHDS Performing Arts - http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/
AHDS Performing Arts collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use
of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad
field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance.
AMIA - Association of Moving Image Archivists www.amianet.org
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) is a non-profit professional
association established to advance the field of moving image archiving
by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned
with the collection, description, preservation, exhibition and use of
moving image materials.
ADM-HEA - Art Design & Media Subject Centre www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk
The Subject Centre for Art, Design, Media (ADM) is part of the Higher
Education Academy (HEA) established by the Higher Education Funding Councils
for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales to promote high quality
learning and teaching in subject communities.
Arts and Humanities Research Council www.ahrc.ac.uk
The AHRC funds research and postgraduate study within the UK's higher
education institutions. In addition, on behalf of the Higher Education
Funding Council for England, it provides funding for museums, galleries
and collections that are based in, or attached to, higher education institutions
in England.
British Universities Film and Video Council www.bufvc.ac.uk
The BUFVC is a representative body which promotes the production, study
and use of film and related media in higher education and research. The
website provides access to useful resources including the Researchers
Guide Online, the Moving Image Gateway, the British Universities Newsreel
Database, and the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching,
amongst others.
Domitor www.domitor.uni-trier.de
An international association dedicated to the study of early cinema.
FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives www.fiafnet.org
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions
dedicated to rescuing films both as cultural heritage and as historical
documents.
FIAT - The International Federation of Television Archives
www.fiatifta.org
A professional Association established to provide a means for co-operation
amongst television archives, multimedia and audiovisual archives and libraries
concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation of moving
image and recorded sound materials and associated documentation, still
image and other materials.
Film Archive Forum www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf
Established in 1987, the Film Archive Forum represents all of the public
sector film and television archives which care for the UK's moving image
heritage. The site includes details of the member archives, the Film Archive
Forum Constitution, a statement of principles, listings of online databases
and videos available from the archives, news and links pages.
Focal International www.focalint.org
The Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries International Ltd,
is a not-for-profit professional trade association providing excellent
networking and marketing opportunities for people in the footage, stills
and audio archive content industry, and giving users easy access to over
300 members worldwide.
IAMHIST - The International Association for Media and History
www.iamhist.org
An association of professional film and television broadcasters, scholars,
and others who are passionately concerned about film, radio, television
and their relations to history.
London's Screen Archives - www.filmlondon.org.uk/screenarchives
London's Screen Archives is a regional network supporting organisations
in London that hold collections of moving image material. It helps researchers
and the public find these collections and tries to ensure the preservation
of important material made in or about the city.
UK Film Council - www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk
The UK Film Council is the Government-backed strategic agency for film
in the UK. Its main aim is to stimulate a competitive, successful and
vibrant UK film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible
enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions
of the UK. The UK Film Council has as one of its priorities - supporting
national and regional archives in making film and moving image material
accessible to all.
University of Brighton - www.brighton.ac.uk
The University of Brighton is a community of 19,000 students and 2,100
staff based on four campuses in Brighton and Eastbourne. It has one of
the best teaching quality ratings in the UK and a strong research record.The
University of Brighton is home to the Screen
Archive South East and hosts this website.
Other film and television related collections and
resources
BBC Collections www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more
The BBC has millions of hours worth of radio and television output
and sound effects. It also archives key documents, commercial and sheet
music. Archive access vary according to requirements and purpose. Public
and research access to BBC film, television and audio material is generally
available through the British
Film Institute research viewing service and the British
Library Sound Archive. The BBC's
programme catalogue can also be searched online. This is an experimental
catalogue database holding over 900,000 entries. It is a sub-set of the
data from the internal BBC database created and maintained by the BBC’s
Information and Archives department.
BBC Nation on Film - www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm
Nation On Film is a site containing online archive video clips from the
20th century. It includes old newsreels, documentaries, as well as home
movies. These videos have been drawn from a variety of sources including
the Northern Region Film and Television Archive and the BBC's own archive.
BBC/Open University Nation on Film website - www.open2.net/nationonfilm/index.html
A companion website to the BBC/Open University TV series 'Nation on Film'.
The site explores issues raised in the series, looking at "the untold
story of how film both recorded and contributed to social change in the
20th century".
BBC Scotland on Film - www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotlandonfilm/index.shtml
"An evocative collection of online clips from film, television and
radio". The archive film extracts are courtesy of Scottish Screen
Archive - Scotland's Moving Image Collection.
Bill Douglas Centre www.billdouglas.org
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
is the University of Exeter's newest research initiative in the Arts and
Humanities. The Centre contains both a public museum and an academic research
centre, housing one of Britain's largest public collections of books,
prints, artifacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory
of cinema.
Broadcasters' Audience Research Board www.barb.co.uk
BARB (Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) is the primary provider of
television audience measurement in the UK and are responsible for providing
estimates of the number of people watching television. This includes which
channels and programmes are being watched, at what time, and the type
of people who are watching at any one time.
British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection - www.bftv.ac.uk/avantgarde/
The British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection, funded by the AHRB
Centre for British Film and Television Studies, houses a large collection
of videotapes, documentation and visual material by British artists, which
is accessible to researchers. A major project of the collection has been
the establishmant of an extensive online database.
British Pathé - www.britishpathe.com
This site allows free access to preview items online from the entire 3500
hour British Pathé Film Archive which covers news, sport, social
history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
British Universities Newsreel Database www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels/index.html
160,000 records of British cinema newsreel production, from 1910 to 1979.
Film and Sound Online www.filmandsound.ac.uk
Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of
film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality
material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and
can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. The films are downloadable,
either in full, or as segments, and can be used in learning, teaching
and research. The service is available free of charge to UK Further and
Higher Education Institutions via Athens accounts, after the completion
of an institutional sub-licence agreement.
Film Institute of Ireland, Irish Film Archive www.irishfilm.ie/archive
The Irish film Archive acquires, preserves and makes permanently accessible
Ireland's film and audiovisual heritage. Its holdings include an extensive
collection of film and magnetic tape, film stills and posters, a paper
archive, film equipment and memorabilia.
Mitchell & Kenyon film collection www.bfi.org.uk/features/mk
For around seventy years, 800 rolls of early nitrate film sat in sealed
barrels in the basement of a shop. Now miraculously rediscovered and undergoing
restoration, this amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at
the beginning of the twentieth century is the most exciting film discovery
of recent times and promises to radically transform British film history.
These web pages include information about the collection being preserved
and restored by the bfi, and about the BBC series 'The Lost World of Mitchell
and Kenyon'. The National Fairground Archive (see below), is working closely
with bfi Collections, to undertake to research into the collection.
Moving Image Gateway www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/index.html
The Moving Image Gateway (MIG) is a service that collects together
websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher
and further education. The sites are classified by academic discipline,
and collected within the four main categories of Arts & Humanities,
Bio-Medical, Social Sciences and Science & Technology.
The National Archives Learning Curve - Onfilm www.learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/onfilm.htm
Onfilm is a resource for teachers and learners where you can
view clips from twentieth century films ranging from life in Britain to
conflict in Vietnam.
National Fairground Archive www.shef.ac.uk/nfa
Housed in the Main Library, The National Fairground Archive (NFA) is a
unique collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual
material covering all aspects of the culture of traveling showpeople,
their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life;
and the artifacts and machinery of fairgrounds. The National Fairground
Archive is also working closely with the bfi, to undertake major research
into the Mitchell
and Kenyon film collection.
National Media Museum www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
The National Media Museum is the new name for the National Museum of Photography,
Film & Television. They exist to “Engage, inspire and educate
by promoting an understanding and appreciation of photography, film, television,
radio and the web.
National Museum of Welsh Life www.nmgw.ac.uk/mwl/collections/film/
The Museum has a collection of approx. 50 hours of 16mm film footage.
Much of this is material shot during the 1970s by curatorial staff who
were anxious to record a way of life that was fast disappearing. Using
a hand-cranked cine camera, they made silent colour films of traditional
farming techniques, foods, and crafts.
Northern Ireland Screen www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission is an integrated agency
for the development of the film industry and film culture in Northern
Ireland. The Commission’s Digital
Film Archive (DFA) is an access resource (not available over
the internet) for researchers, students, historians, and anyone who has
an interest in moving images in Northern Ireland. The DFA contains 55
hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000. There
are 389 items covering drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreel,
amateur and actuality film.
Ofcom www.ofcom.org.uk
Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK
communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio,
telecommunications and wireless communications services. Amongst many
other roles, Ofcom conduct quantitative and qualitative research on television
and radio broadcasting in the commercial and non-commercial sectors.
RGO- Researcher's Guide Online - www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/rgo.html
The RGO database has entries on almost 550 film, television, radio and
related documentation collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It
features 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.
SCRAN - www.scran.ac.uk
SCRAN is a history and culture website providing access to images, sounds,
movies and learning resources and contains over one million records from
museums, galleries and archives. Schools, higher education, libraries,
museums and home users subscribe can to SCRAN for a fee.
Screenonline - www.screenonline.org.uk
Aimed at schools and libraries, the new Screenonline site aims to bring
to life the history of British film and television, with hundreds of hours
of digitised video, alongside thousands of stills, posters, production
designs, press and publicity materials, unpublished scripts, personal
papers, recorded interviews with filmmakers and actors, and interactive
timelines.
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum www.uftm.org.uk
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, part of the Museums and Galleries
of Northern Ireland, ranks among Ireland's foremost visitor attractions,
recapturing a disappearing way of life, preserving traditional skills,
celebrating transport history and has a related film collection.
Other archive sites and resources
A2A - Access to Archives www.a2a.org.uk
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout
England and dating from the 900s to the present day. These archives are
cared for in local record offices and libraries, universities, museums
and national and specialist institutions across England, where they are
made available to the public.
AIM25 www.aim25.ac.uk
AIM25 provides electronic access to collection level descriptions of the
archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies
within the greater London area.
Archives Hub - www.archiveshub.ac.uk
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities
and colleges.
ARCHON www.archon.nationalarchives.gov.uk
An electronic directory of local archival repositories in the UK and abroad
and a portal to archival resources
British Library Sound Archive www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html
One of the largest sound archives in the world. The Sound Archive
holds over a million discs, 185,000 tapes, and many other sound and video
recordings. The collections come from all over the world and cover the
entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral
history and wildlife sounds.
Collect Britain www.collectbritain.co.uk
The British Library's largest digitisation project to date. At the site
you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from the
British Library's world-renowned collections of maps, prints and drawings,
photographs and documents, and rare early sound recordings from around
the globe.
Cyfrwng www.cyfrwng.com
Cyfrwng is an interdisciplinary journal published annually by University
of Wales Press. The Cyfrwng project provides a forum for the presentation
of research and scholarly discussion concerning the media in Wales, namely
film, television, new media, radio, journalism, theatre and performance
studies.
Intute - www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities
An online service providing you with access to the best Web resources
for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject
specialists.
The Mass Observation Archive www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs
This Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It
contains papers generated by the original Mass-Observation social research
organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously
since the 1981.
MLA - The Museums Libraries and Archives Council www.mla.gov.uk
The Museums Libraries and Archives Council was launched in April 2000
as the strategic body working with and for museums, archives and libraries,
tapping the potential for collaboration between them.
The National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom has one
of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years
of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently
released to the public.
NRA - The National Register of Archives www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/
A resource for those seeking information on the nature and location of
records relating to British history
Unesco Archives Portal - www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/
With the Archives Portal, UNESCO provides a single interactive access
point to information for archivists and users of archives worldwide. Visitors
to the UNESCO Archives Portal can browse through pre-established categories
or search for specific words.
Untold London - www.untoldlondon.org.uk/
This site searches for the histories that relate to all the cultures of
London. The site focuses on London museums, but also look at archives,
galleries and the history work of communities themselves.
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