One platform, over 137,000 multimedia items, providing a single point of access to major multimedia archives, enabling cross searching and exploration of over 3,500 hours of film and 50,000 images from the following archives:
NewsFilm Online
Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives, comprising some 60,000 stories. The sources include the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, from 1910 and 1934 respectively. Many ITN broadcasts also include scripts and rushes, enabling comparison of the raw material and the edited footage that was broadcast.
Includes 9 minutes of British Gaumont newsreel from the 1948 Olympic games http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/030-00026135
Film and Sound Online
Over 2,000 items, comprising 17 separate collections of digitised film and sound, including Imperial War Museum film footage, the Royal Mail Film collection, and scientific content from the Wellcome Library and the Biochemical Society. The archive also includes over 50 hours of classical music recording from the Culverhouse collection.
Includes all the GPO collection with the renowned Night Mail (1936) showing the rail postal special from London to Glasgow with music by Britten & poetry by W.H.Auden
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/007-00002922
Digital Images for Education
The result of a £2.75 million procurement during 2009-10, this archive comprises over 56,000 images and 600 hours of film selected by the education community to capture local, UK and world events during the last 25 years. Sources include the AP Archive, Getty Images, ITN, Design CouncilArchives, Imperial War Museum, Royal Geographical Society, Fitzwilliam Museum and PYMCA.
Users can also search across collections such as the British Library Archival Sound Recordings and Scran
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