Film and Moving Image Education - Links

This section of the website showcases some of the best websites to help your film and moving image education. Explore the "other links" section for links to other sites of use to those interested in film and moving image. If you find any good websites which you think may be of interest to flicKerNOW please email to let us know.

American Memory from the Library of Congress
The incomparable 'American Memory' section of the vast Library of Congress site includes a 'Performing Arts' section, with playscripts, theatre bills, sound recordings and motion pictures, including Coca-Cola advertisements, early American animation, films from the Theodore Roosevelt collection, early American variety acts, early film of New York and San Francisco, films of the Spanish-American War, and Edison films and sound recordings. All films are available in Real, MPEG and QuickTime formats, and there is excellent supporting catalogue information.

A new website from Skillset
This new website from Skillset is aimed at people working in the industry, as well as those looking to get into it. It offers a huge range of media courses, job descriptions and career paths, a storyboard guide and information about the latest training bursaries available:

Anima
One of the most creative and beautiful sites o­n the web, mostly devoted to animations of the work of 'pre-cinema' pioneers such as Donisthorpe and Le Prince, and the chronophotographs (sequence photographs) of late nineteenth-century experimenters such as Demeny, Marey and Muybridge. The section 'Chronophotographical Projections' is particularly recommended.

Atom Films
Leading o­nline broadcaster of short films and animations

Becta
Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors.

British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (BKSTS)
Organisation which aims to 'encourage, sustain, educate, train and represent all those who, creatively or technologically, are involved in the business of providing moving images and associated sound in any form and through any media'. The site includes information o­n careers in film and television, courses, and links to related organisations and resources.

British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
This BUFVC database lists 160,000 news stories produced by twenty-one British cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, with details of production, content and release taken from the original newsreel issue sheets. A programme of digitisation is now adding some 80,000 newsreel documents to the database in PDF format. Access to the BUND is restricted to UK higher education and BUFVC members o­nly, but there is a trial version of the database, and there is free access to background information, including a biographical database of newsreel staff, newsreel histories and articles.

dyslexier
www.dislexier.org was established in 2004 by a group of six students at Loe Community School with the help of their teacher Mike Keveth and Robert and Gill Hocking from Artytechs Interactive

Falmouth School Film Club
Falmouth Schools Film Club website where you can watch movies made by the students of the film club.

Film Education
Film Education is a registered charity funded by the film industry in the UK . Our aim is to encourage and promote the study of film and cinema within the UK National Curriculum.

International Association for Media and History (Iamhist)
Iamhist is an international organisation of professional film and television broadcasters, scholars, and others interested in film, radio, television and their relations to history. The site includes details of publications (including The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television), conferences, news and web links.

Nesta Futurelab
By bringing together the creative, technical and educational communities, NESTA Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new technologies to enrich and transform the learning experience.

Ultralab
Ultralab is a learning technology research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University.