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THE BRITISH UNIVERSITIES NEWSREEL PROJECT DATABASE
The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) has now published its
unique database of British newsreels as a CD-ROM and online.
Between 1910 and 1979 the newsreels, released twice a week in British
cinemas, gave millions their picture of national and world events. Such
fondly remembered names as Pathe News, Gaumont British News and British
Movietone News were seen in every cinema, and have now preserved an
invaluable record of life and news in the twentieth century. They are
already regularly used by television companies making historical programmes,
and are increasingly used by academics working in a variety of fields, as
appreciation grows of their special value as a historical resource.
The BUFVC has maintained and encouraged an interest in newsreel history
since the 1970s, and in 1995 initiated the British Universities Newsreel
Project, which has resulted in a database of information on 160,000
individual newsreel stories taken from 21 British newsreels and
cinemagazines. This has now been published as a website at
www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels, with free access to all ac.uk addresses and BUFVC
members. It is also being sold as a cross-platform (PC or Apple Mac) CD-ROM,
price £95.00 (inc. VAT and p&p) but with one copy free to BUFVC member
representatives, with a discount price of £65.00 for additional copies.
The database features news coverage from 1910 to 1979, and embraces such
topics as fashion, sport, crime, leisure, transport and two world wars. It
is fully searchable by subject, title, event, location, date, company,
cameraman and synopsis. An accompanying booklet includes a short history of
the newsreels. The website also includes the history, general information on
the newsreels, articles, and a biographical index of cameramen.
The British Universities Newsreel Project website is the first centralised
record of British newsreel releases. It will become a major historical
resource for students, historians and film researchers, and will help secure
the newsreels¹ place as a treasure trove of the twentieth century.
For more details, visit www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels or contact the BUFVC at
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