Department for Curriculum and Quality Enhancement

Using media

Below you will find a collection of links to useful sites for film and video collections, podcasts and information related to the use of moving images and audio for learning and teaching.

• The British Universities Film and Video Council

  The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC)
  A representative body that promotes the production, study and use of film and related media in higher education and research. BUFVC provides numerous resources and databases for audio-visual materials including the following four services:

  BoB National
  The University of Portsmouth subscribes to BoB National, a shared off-air recording and media archive. BoB (short for ‘Box of Broadcasts’) provides staff and students with online access to television and radio programmes from the previous seven days, as well as allowing users to book recordings for broadcasts seven days in advance, from more than 50 television and radio channels. Users may also search thousands of programmes stored in the growing archive. Users can compile playlists of extracts or full titles for personal use or to share with other staff and students. Searches can be run by title or keyword and the BoB National archives are held indefinitely for access by all registered users.

  Moving Image Gateway
  This includes over 1000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These sites are subdivided into more than 40 subject areas.

  The Researcher's Guide Online (RGO)
  This service is based on the data that comprises the established BUFVC reference work The Researcher's Guide: Film, Television, Radio and Related Documentation Collections in the UK. The RGO has entries on more than 600 film, television, radio and related documentation collections in the UK and Ireland. It features national and regional archives as well as stockshot libraries and collections held by local authorities, museums, institutions of further and higher education, industrial companies and private individuals.

  The Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
  This is the best source of UK television and radio data on the web. Listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards are available. Attached to this site is an off-air recording backup service. Colleagues can request DVD copies of recordings made under the Educational Recording Agency (ERA) licence agreement. Recordings for most BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 programmes go back as far as 2002. In the first instance, however, it is recommended that you should try BoB National.
  This site has a Shibboleth login.

• BBC Motion Gallery

  BBC Motion Gallery
  BBC Motion Gallery is the BBC's archive clip licensing business and the exclusive global representative of footage material from leading broadcasters as well as numerous other acclaimed archives.

  The JISC service allows all staff and students of subscribed institutions to access a vast collection of clips for use in presentations, lectures, coursework and media.

  Search through a vast collection of moving imagery on topics such as Current Affairs, Sport, Natural History, Medicine, Geography, The Arts and many more.

  The Gallery will include additional footage from other content partners such as CBS News and NHK.

  No login is required when on campus. Users can use their own university Shibboleth login when outside of the University.

• Film and Sound Online

  Film and Sound Online
  Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. A Shibboleth login is available for all of the collections.
  Among the many collections are the following:

  Newsfilm Online
  More than 3000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is available to download in high-quality format for teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online provides a gateway to nearly 100 years of news, from the 1910s to the present day. Users can edit material to suit their needs. It is made available under an 'in perpetuity' licence, meaning that these news films can be embedded in UK Higher Education for years to come.

  The Culverhouse Classical Music Collection
  The collection comprises over 50 hours of copyright-free classical music, covering much of the core repertoire plus rarer pieces from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It is licensed from Brian Culverhouse who, after 20 years at EMI, has been an independent record producer for 30 years, working with many famous performers.

  For ease of use, the music is available in small pieces, such as movements, and some associated scores are also available.

  As with existing Film & Sound Online collections, users are permitted to extract sections for delivery in a VLE or on disc.

  Educational and Television Films Ltd
  The ETV collection is unique in that it is the largest surving collection of productions from the former Soviet Union, Communist China, the European Eastern block, Chile and Cuba. It is the legacy of the work of Stanley Forman, one of the leading figures in the Communist Party of Great Britain.

  In addition to documentary footage on, for example, the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany, the Vietnam war, Tibet and Beirut, the collection also includes a number of Soviet, Czech and Bulgarian feature films.

  The material will be of interest to lecturers and students in Higher Education and will be particularly useful in the disciplines of military, political and social history, the history of science, war studies, media studies, music and the performing arts, and the study of propaganda.

  Imperial War Museum
  The IWM film and video collection is recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th century. This selection from their holdings consists mainly of British official films, but there are also titles from the USSR and the USA. The material spans the First and Second World Wars, post-war reconstruction, Cold War and Civil Defence films and, most recently, videotape from the United Nations Television Campaign in the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996.

  Subjects covered include; military, political, social history, defence and war studies, American studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, international relations, town and country development, art, literacy and the uses of propaganda.

• British Movietonews

  British Movietonews
  British Movietonews is one of the world's largest newsreel archives containing historical film footage covering most of the major events of the 20th century, principally from 1929–1979. This site provides clips for playing but will require a subscription and fee for downloading.

• Independent Television News Archive

  Independent Television News Archive
  This archive is viewable but clips used will be charged for.

• ResearchChannel

  ResearchChannel
  ResearchChannel is a non-profit media and technology organisation that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures. ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public.

• The ERA Licensing Scheme

  The ERA Licensing Scheme
  The ERA Licensing Scheme permits staff at educational establishments to record, for non-commercial educational purposes, broadcast output of ERA members.

• Wessex Film and Sound Archive

  Wessex Film and Sound Archive
  The Wessex Film and Sound Archive is situated in Winchester. You can see and hear history, from late Victorian times to the present day, through moving images and sound recordings. The Archive contains over 32,000 film and sound recordings relating to central southern England, including film and tapes of local TV and radio. The archive havs a lot of footage of Portsmouth including some of the University’s own material. It has a limited number of clips for viewing online; nothing is downloadable.

• Podcast Alley

  Podcast Alley
  A directory of podcasts (podcast directory) available on the Internet. Podcasting is a great way for professionals and individuals alike to create audio news files (podcasts) that people can download to their iPods or other portable media devices and listen to when they are away from their computers.

• iTunes U

  iTunes U
  This Apple website links to thousands of free podcasts from hundreds of colleges and universities. Although many of them are North American, it also includes podcasts from the Open University and University College London.