[eccr] British Universities Newsreel Scripts Project

>The British Universities Film & Video Council is pleased to announce the
>successful conclusion of its project to digitise 80,000 British newsreel
>documents. Funded by the Arts & Humantities Research Board, this four-year
>project has resulted in 80,221 (to be exact) commentary scripts, dope
>sheets, shot lists and assignment sheets added to the British Universities
>Newsreel Database (BUND), a database of 160,000 British newsreels.
>
>During the lifetime of the project, the BUFVC has also created a
>biographical database of newsreel staff, a database of abstracts of newsreel
>literature, online audio interviews with newsreel veterans simultaneous
>transcripts, published Mass-Observation documents on audience reactions to
>newsreels during WWII, established a prize for newsfilm studies, published
>the autobiography of cameraman John Turner and a Reader for newsreel
>studies, and it has created links from 40,000 of its newsreel records to
>downloadable newsreels from the British Pathe web site. The BUND's most
>recent feature is an 'interactive programmes map', displaying some of the
>colourful programmes and brochures of events filmed by the newsreels which
>the BUFVC acquired along with its collection of newsreel documentation.
>
>The BUND will continue to be maintained by the BUFVC, and regular users will
>see new features appear in the coming months.
>
>The BUND can be found at www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels.
>
>
>
>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: (luke /at/ bufvc.ac.uk)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Carpentier Nico (Phd)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSO)
Office: C0.05
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.30
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.28.61
E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
W1: http://smit.vub.ac.be/
W2: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 


----------------
ECCR-Mailing list
---
To unsubscribe, send an email message to (majordomo /at/ listserv.vub.ac.be)
with in the body of the message (NOT in the subject): unsubscribe eccr
---
ECCR - European Consortium for Communications Research
Secretariat: P.O. Box 106, B-1210 Brussels 21, Belgium
Tel.: +32-2-412 42 78/47
Fax.: +32-2-412 42 00
Email: (freenet002 /at/ pi.be) or (Rico.Lie /at/ pi.be)
URL: http://www.eccr.info
----------------