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Added by Luke McKernan on December 23, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Project Canvas to go ahead (provisionally)

The BBC Trust has given provisional approval to the BBC's involvement in Project Canvas, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) project for which the BBC has partnered with ITV, Channel 4, Five, British Telecom and TalkTalk. Essentially Project Canvas has agreed a set of standards which will enable broadcast and Web content to appear on your TV screen, so with the help of a set-top box (expected to be in the shops in 2011) you can wat… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 22, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Look out for 3D Blu-ray

3D, as they keep on telling us, is coming to the living room, and now here comes this report via Ars Technica of the Blu-ray Disc Association approving a final specification to deliver high definition 3D movies on Blu-ray discs - which would be backwards-compatible, so you could play the discs on 2D machines (though without the 3D effect, fairly obviously): http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/n… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 21, 2009 at 1:37pm — No Comments

It Felt like a Kiss again

Adam Curtis' provocative film It Felt Like a Kiss has been made available online once more through his BBC blog. No indication of how long it will stay online this time, but best to catch it while you can (while heeding the warning t… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 16, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Paramount sell clips

Paramount Pictures is to launch a video clip service, where users can select clips online from hundreds of titles in the Paramount library, paying for them according to licensing use. The service launches today, for commercial users only so far, at www.paramountclips.com. "The site, to be introduced on Tuesday, is powered by VideoSense, an automated indexing tool developed by the technology company Digitalsmiths. Using proprietary vide… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 15, 2009 at 9:45am — No Comments

BBC and British Library join forces

Press release from the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/news/2009/pressrelease20091211.html The BBC and British Library will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in an innovative approach to make the content and assets of both organisations more widely available. Managed by a joint steering committee, the MOU seeks to develop new ways of integrating access to nearly a million hours of BBC TV and rad… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 11, 2009 at 9:59am — 1 Comment

Project Canvas gains a website

Project Canvas, the proposed partnership between the BBC, ITV, BT and Five to build an open internet-connected TV platform, has launched a website - www.projectcanvas.info. The site provides background information on Canvas (which still awaits final approval from the BBC Trust), covering objective… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on December 3, 2009 at 11:17pm — No Comments

New website featuring fashion on film in the 1920s and 1930s

New ‘Screen Search Fashion’ website launched http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/fashion/

A new website featuring fashion on film in the 1920s and 1930s is being launched this week. Screen Search Fashion has been developed by Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brigh… Continue

Added by Elaine Sheppard on December 3, 2009 at 1:27pm — 2 Comments

Screen Research - one year on

Screen Research is a year old today. On 29 November 2008 I set up this network in emulation of Resources for Studying Sound Recordings, created by my colleague Chris Clark in the British Library Sound Archive. In that year Screen Research has gained 325 members, among them students, archivists, film programmers, researchers, librarians, filmmakers, enthusiasts and journalists. Screen Research has published 282 blog posts, formed 14 gr… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 29, 2009 at 6:37pm — 1 Comment

CALL FOR ENTRIES!! DOCUMENTARY FILMS! DocMiami May 28-30, 2010!

Submit Your Film Now! http://docmiami.org/Festival.html Feature Documentary Feature Documentaries with a total running time from 61 - 180 minutes. (All films in a language other than English require English subtitles) Docume… Continue

Added by DocMiami International Film on November 29, 2009 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Beyond 2012 – The Future for the BBC

This is the text of BBC director-general Mark Thompson's speech 'Beyond 2012 – The Future for the BBC', given at the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Conference, The Geological Society, Burlington House, London on 26 November 2009: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/speeches/stories/thompson_beyond.shtml I want to begin with a question – what is the BBC for? It's a question which often comes u… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 28, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

UCL Film Studies Space free events in December

The Autopsies Group invites you to two of our upcoming events in the UCL Film Studies Space: 'Objects After Life: Museums and Film Studies in Dialogue' 2 December 2009, 6.30 pm Room 114, Foster Court, UCL Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT A museum roundtable in which we will be exploring how moving image studies interact with curators of things in a 'still' as well as mobile world. Panellists will include: Oliver Winchester (Victoria and Albert Museum) Alexandra Goddard (Geffrye Museum)… Continue

Added by Jacob Paskins on November 24, 2009 at 10:53pm — No Comments

Sweeping changes at the UK Film Council

This Screen Daily piece reports on major changes at the UK Film Council following its £25M budget cut: http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/uk-ireland/ukfc-announces-sweeping-reorganisation-new-production-fund/5008226.article UKFC announces sweeping reorganisation, new production fund The UK Film Council (UKFC) is pr… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 18, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

December at BFI Southbank

December 2009 BFI Southbank Programme Highlights JOSEF VON STERNBERG This month we will celebrate the career of Josef von Sternberg – one of Hollywood’s most visionary directors – with a complete retrospective of his films. He was the man Marlene Dietrich called her master, and is perhaps best known for The Blue Angel (1930) and The Scarlet Empress (1934) SALLY POTTER Sally Potter is one of the UK’s most innovative and original filmmakers, and we look forward to launching our com… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 16, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

Ken Wlaschin

It's sad to have to report the death of a Screen Research member, Ken Wlaschin, at the age of 75. Ken was film programmer and historian of distinction - a former head of London's National Film Theatre and of the London Film Festival, director of AFI Fest, and an author of numerous books on the cinema, nota… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 15, 2009 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Power of the VHS

The humble VHS is, rightly, regarded as a disposable commodity and not an archive medium, but the recordings on these cassettes are sometimes unique and irreplaceable. Since 1989 UK universities and colleges have created sizeable collections of valuable recordings on VHS. Today however many… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 13, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

Freeview HD copy protection questioned

Report from the BBC about the much-debated plans to add copy-protection to the planned Freeview HD service, which Ofcom has now questioned after numerous responses opposing the plans, notably from Labour MP Tom Watson: Ofcom knocks back BBC DRM plans http://news.bbc.co.uk/1… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 12, 2009 at 10:43am — No Comments

Democracy Live

The BBC has quietly released Democracy Live, a website-cum-portal which brings together live and on-demand video coverage of proceedings from the UK's political institutions and the European Parliament. Its startling features include a video wall of live and recently-recorded proceedings, and a search facility which allows you to search for mentions of specific words in speeches. As the… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 3, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

iPlayer is making us media literate

A new Ofcom report, UK Adults' Media Literacy, documents high take up of digital and mobile services in the UK, with a notable strong uptake for online video. One in three UK Internet uses watches TV online and downloads onlive video, a trend given a strong drive by the popularity of the BBC iPlayer. NewTeeVee provides a useful analysis of this, demonstrating how iPlayer and us… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 2, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Blinkbox and the BFI

A very interesting partnership: http://www.nma.co.uk/bfi-partners-with-blinkbox-to-broadcast-classic-british-films-online/3006059.article Continue

Added by David Forrest on October 29, 2009 at 8:17pm — 1 Comment

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