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IMAGE & SOUND COLLECTIONS
BFI Inview
British Film Institute's National Archive service providing over 2000 excerpts of non-fiction film and television
titles from the 20th and early 21st century. Particularly useful for media studies and historians.
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British Library Sounds (incorporating Archival Sound Recordings collection)
Online access to downloadable material from the British Library Sound Archive
collection. Includes music, oral histories and environmental sounds.
Digital Images for Education via
JISC MediaHub (on campus login)
Digital
Images for Education via JISC MediaHub (off campus login)
This archive, part of JISC MediaHub, comprises over
56,000 images and 600 hours of film selected by the education
community to capture
local,
UK
and world events. Sources include the
AP Archive, Getty Images, ITN, Design Council Archives, Imperial
War Museum, Royal Geographical Society, Fitzwilliam Museum and
PYMCA.
Film
and Sound Online
via JISC MediaHub (on campus login)
Film
and Sound Online
via JISC MediaHub (off campus login)
This resource has now moved to JISC MediaHub, part of the JISC eCollections
resource. The individual collections which formed Film and Sound
Online can still be searched separately. 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.
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JISC MediaHub (on campus login)
JISC
MediaHub (off campus login)
Part of the excellent JISC eCollections resource, specifically
focussed on media, images, audo and film, including NewsFilm Online
and the Film and Sound Online.
NewsFilm
Online via JISC MediaHub (on campus login)
NewsFilm
Online via JISC MediaHub (off campus login)
Access via JISC MediaHub, part of the JISC eCollections
resource. This resource includes over
3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels,
selected from the huge ITN/Reuters Television archives. The
individual collections which formed NewsFilm Online can
still be searched separately.
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Other resources you could use...
Academic
Earth
Video lectures from the world's top scholars,
including lecturers at Harvard and Yale.
British
Cartoon Archive
More than 130,000 original
cartoons, including work by Ralph Steadman,
and Carl Giles, amongst many
others. Images are subject to copyright - although they
can be used
in student essays,
permission
is needed for inclusion in "teaching packs".
Digital Collections Online
A resource of images from the Victorian era, made available for use by the University of Exeter with assistance from JISC. The images are free for use in teaching and learning.
EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators
Free image resource for educators and their students.
Europeana
Millions of digital items provided by Europe's museums and
galleries, archives, libraries and audio-visual organisations.
Freeze
Frame
Historic
polar images. Over 20,000 images from 1845 - 1960, related to
polar exploration.
LBC/IRN Audio Archive
London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive runs from 1973 to 1996. Commercial radio broadcasts focussing on news and current affairs.
World
Digital Library
UNESCO has launched a website bringing together free digital
maps, photographs, manuscripts and texts from all parts of
the world