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Dear NEWSREELS subscribers, On Thursday last, July 31st, the British Universities Newsreel Scripts Project came to an end. Today, the last batch of digitised documents went up online, taking us beyond our planned target to a final figure of 80,221 documents published - a number of which are repeated, so we're actually offering 92,719 pages online. At the same time, we have also released our 'interactive programmes map', a means to show some of the digitised brochures, sports programmes, notices etc which came with some of the newsreel documentation, and which we have arranged around a map of Britain. Owing to rights issues, this feature is restricted to ac.uk domains and BUFVC members. You may also notice a general reorganisation of our web site to accommodate these changes. The BUNSP has achieved many more things besides the 80,000 documents. Since the project began in full in 2000, we have produced a biographical database of newsreel staff, a database of abstracts of newsreel literature, audio interviews with simultaneous transcripts, Mass-Observation documents, a prize for newsfilm studies, and links to downloadable newsreels from the Pathe web site. The BUNSP was a four-year digitisation project, funded by the Arts & Humantities Research Board. The newsreel database will continue to be maintained by the BUFVC, and regular users should look out for new features in the coming months. 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]