Newsfilm Online is one of the most exciting resources to be offered to
Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and
cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters
archive, is being made available online in high quality format for
teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of
unmatched richness to nearly one hundred years of news, from the 1910s to
the present day.
Newsfilm Online has now launched a demonstrator website at:
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
This 'demonstrator' web site is making some fifty news clips
(approximately one hour of material) freely available for downloading to
all users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome
your comments on any of these. We hope to add more clips to the site in
due course.
The main delivery of 3,000 hours will be in February 2007.
James Taylor the project's Education and Outreach Officer is currently
arranging visits to HE and FE institutions to demonstrate the Newsfilm
Online Resource and to seek input from teaching and research staff and
students on the needs and requirements of educational users. If you would
like James to visit your institution, have any queries or would like any
more information on Newsfilm Online you can contact him using the details
below.
James Taylor
Education/Outreach Officer
Newsfilm Online
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 020 7430 4580
Address:
200 Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8XZ
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