More than 6,000 early twentieth-century newsreels (short-form, visual news content intended to inform and entertain the public, in black and white and entirely silent) originally shown in cinemas across Britain.
Showcasing the British Film Institute’s Victorian Film Collection and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, as well as a selection of special early large format films, this material provides a glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured between 1895 and 1913 by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators.
Printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips documenting the societal changes of the period in areas including music, politics, fashion, and youth culture.
This guide will help you find resources for researching film, television, and new media. It aims to point you to the most useful starting points for your research.
Index to publications on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore, from all cultures, 1963 to present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.
An index to articles on film and TV from 300 academic and popular film journals, including full text from the most important journals, from 1972 to present.
Index of over three million articles from more than 550 US and Canadian magazines.
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