They may not contain much TV drama or small-screen fiction, unless you
view documentaries and TV news as forms of "fiction", but both Film &
Sound Online, http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/ and NewsFilm Online,
http://www.nfo.ac.uk/ are TV archives of sorts and free to subscribe and
access to UK FE and HE.
Rick Loup
Multimedia Services Development Officer
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On 20 Oct Lez Cooke wrote:
>
> *Call for Submissions **
>
> * *
>
> *_Television Archives: Accessing TV History_*
>
>
>
> */Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen
> Fictions/*
>
> Issue Editors: Lez Cooke and Robin Nelson
>
>
>
> * While there has been an excellent response to the call for
> submissions previously circulated we would still welcome proposals for
> articles focusing on ‘small screen fictions’ (rather than more general
> institutional issues around archiving and the problems of accessing TV
> history) for this special issue of CST. We are therefore
> re-circulating this Call for Submissions and welcome further proposals
> on *television drama and other small screen fictions*.
>
>
>
> The current research picture would seem to have an upside and a
> downside for television researchers. On the upside, digital
> technologies promise to make archive material readily accessible to
> many more people than hitherto. The aims of organisations such as the
> BBC and BFI to digitise and disseminate their substantial holdings
> would appear to afford great opportunities to researchers. The use
> historically made by television scholars of the valuable resources of
> the BBC Written Archives Centre and the BFI’s National Film and
> Television Archive will be considerably extended if digital plans are
> realised. However, there is a downside in that the holdings of other
> archives and libraries - e.g. regional archives, the film and video
> libraries of the regional ITV companies - are often patchy and/or
> inaccessible. Furthermore, although valuable research has been done on
> television history in recent years, it has become increasingly
> difficult to get such work into print as publishers focus on books
> about contemporary television at the expense of scholarly research
> into TV history.
>
>
>
> In this context, /Critical Studies in Television/ is planning a
> special issue on television archives and the opportunities and
> problems of accessing and publishing TV history in order to explore
> these issues. Contributions are welcome on any aspect of television
> archives including, but not limited to, the following:
>
>
>
> · The role of national/regional television archives in relation
> to small screen fictions
>
> · Problems of access and availability
>
> · Case studies relating to particular aspects of archival research
>
> · The archives/collections of individual writers, directors,
> producers, etc.
>
> · Issues around the publication of research on TV history
>
>
>
> Contributions are invited on the past, present and future of
> television archives and issues of accessing TV history, *with
> particular reference to small screen fictions*. Articles will normally
> be 4000-6000 words in length, but proposals for shorter or longer
> articles will be considered.
>
>
>
> Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) to Lez Cooke
> ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Robin Nelson
> ([log in to unmask]
> <about:[log in to unmask]>)
> by _30 October 2009_.
>
>
>
> Completed articles will have a submission deadline of 31 March 2010,
> for publication in Autumn 2010.
>
>
>
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