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> From: Luke McKernan BUFVC
> Reply To: Luke McKernan BUFVC
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 17:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: British Universities Newsreel Database
>
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) is pleased to
> announce
> several significant additions to the British Universities Newsreel
> Database
> (BUND).
>
> The BUND is a database of 160,000 British cinema newsreel stories
> 1910-1979,
> to which 80,000 digitised newsreel production documents (commentary
> scripts,
> shot lists, cameramen's dope sheets etc) are being added - 50,000 have
> gone
> up so far, and this particular project will be completed by July 2003.
> This
> main section of the database is accessible to all UK higher and further
> education institutions (ac.uk addresses) and BUFVC members.
>
> However, the BUND also serves as a general resource for newsreel study,
> and
> many other features are freely accessible. Two major new additions are (i)
> a
> database of 700 British newsreel staff biographies, searchable by name,
> newsreeland occupation, with free-text searching facility, photographs and
> annotations; (ii) a database of 700 abstracts to literature on newsreels
> from film journals, newspapers, books and academic articles, searchable by
> author, date, newsreel and selected key themes. The BUND site also
> contains
> a wide range of general resources for the study of newsreels, including
> bibliographies, video availability, links streamed news media, online
> articles, and more.
>
> Another new feature, accessible only to ac.uk addresses, is three audio
> interviews, each over three hours long, with former newsreelers Ted Candy
> (cameraman), Norman Fisher (cameraman) and Reg Sutton (sound recordist).
> The
> interview streams (using QuickTime) come with matching transcript, and
> transcripts are also available as PDFs. These interviews are part of a
> substantial series of of interviews with British film and television
> personnel conducted by the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph &
> Theatre Union (BECTU), and more of those BECTU interviews that have been
> conducted with former newsreel staff will being going up on the BUND in
> due
> course.
>
> The BUND can be found at www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels. Any enquiries about
> British newsreels or use of the site, please address them to
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Luke
>
>
> Luke McKernan
> Head of Information
> British Universities Film & Video Council
> 77 Wells Street
> London W1T 3QJ
> Tel: 020 7393 1508
> Fax: 020 7393 1555
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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