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>
> Newsfilm Online is planned to be 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 to be 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.
>
> A demonstrator website is available at:
>
> www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
>
> Newsfilm Online's Education and Outreach Officer James Taylor is
> currently
> planning the next set of presentations of the resource to UK Higher
> and
> Further Education.
>
> These presentations offer an exciting opportunity to learn more
> about the
> resource, the type and range of content being made available, to ask
> questions and to contribute to the resource's development with your
> own
> suggestions.
>
> If you work in a UK HE or FE institution that Newsfilm Online has
> not yet
> visited and would be interested in arranging a presentation at your
> insititution - please contact James Taylor:
>
>
> 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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