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Sent: 06 March 2006 10:59
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Subject: [ecrea] Newsfilm Online launches demonstrator website


>Newsfilm Online is one of the most exciting resources to be offered to
>Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news
and
>cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters
>archive, is being made available online in high quality format for
>teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of
>unmatched richness to nearly one hundred years of news, from the 1910s
to
>the present day.
>
>
>
>Newsfilm Online has now launched a demonstrator website at:
>
>http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/
>
>This 'demonstrator' web site is making some fifty news clips
>(approximately one hour of material) freely available for downloading
to
>all users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome
>your comments on any of these. We hope to add more clips to the site in
>due course.
>
>The main delivery of 3,000 hours will be in February 2007.
>
>
>James Taylor the project's Education and Outreach Officer is currently
>arranging visits to HE and FE institutions to demonstrate the Newsfilm
>Online Resource and to seek input from teaching and research staff and
>students on the needs and requirements of educational users. If you
would
>like James to visit your institution, have any queries or would like
any
>more information on Newsfilm Online you can contact him using the
details
>below.
>
>James Taylor
>Education/Outreach Officer
>Newsfilm Online
>http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Phone: 020 7430 4580
>Address:
>200 Grays Inn Road
>London
>WC1X 8XZ

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