[ecrea] 10,000 items of European audiovisual content available online

British Universities Film & Video Council Media Release

*Access to thousands of TV clips from across Europe now available 
following UK launch of online portal *

*London, 13 December 2011*: More than *10,000 items of archived TV 
footage from 17 European countries* are now available via the EUscreen 
<http://www.euscreen.eu> online portal.  EUscreen – the result of a 
groundbreaking collaboration with 36 partners across Europe – provides a 
uniquely rich and exciting insight into *Europe’s television heritage* 
with content dating from the 1920s until today.

The portal includes a range of audiovisual content, including rare 
footage, such as an interview with EASY RIDER (1969) stars Peter Fonda 
and Dennis Hopper, and news footage and commentary on key events in 
history, including an interview with Martin Luther King (1962) about 
racial discrimination in the US.  By the end of September 2012, there 
will be around *30,000 items of digital content freely available* on the 
portal as the European providers continue to add carefully selected 
material.

The EUscreen portal will be valuable to a wide range of cultural, 
educational and recreational users and will be of particular 
significance to those interested in European cultural, social or 
broadcast history.  The expansive footage has also proved popular as a 
learning aid for foreign language students, with clips available in 15 
languages.

The portal provides a wide variety of user-tested standardised 
functionalities and a simple navigation system to allow users to easily 
search and browse the expanding collection. *Explore the EUscreen portal 
here: http://www.euscreen.eu/*

The British Universities Film & Video Council and Royal Holloway, 
University of London, two of the UK partners in the project, are pleased 
to launch the new online EUscreen portal in the UK.  The UK partners 
have worked together to deliver a content selection strategy and 
organised user-testing to ensure the development of a innovatively 
simple and standardised web portal.

The EUscreen project began in October 2009 and is a three-year project, 
funded by the European Commission. The project aims to standardise and 
provide a framework to the heterogeneous collections held throughout 
Europe and encourages the exploration of Europe’s rich and diverse history.

A complete press release can be found here: 
http://bufvc.ac.uk/wp-content/media/2011/12/EUscreen-launch-Dec-2011-FINAL.pdf

Sarah Allen
*Marketing and Events Manager*

*British Universities Film & Video Council*
77 Wells Street, London W1T 3QJ
tel: 020 7393 1512
fax: 020 7393 1555
(sarah /at/ bufvc.ac.uk) <mailto:(sarah /at/ bufvc.ac.uk)>
www.bufvc.ac.uk
*moving image and sound, knowledge and access*

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