Library & Cultural Services: Film Studies: News and Primary Sources

News and Primary Sources

The library subscribes to a number of resources which you can use to access primary sources - including newspapers, which can be useful if you are looking for reviews of a particular film. A few of the most important resources for Film Studies are listed below.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. It allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels), create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists.
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Kanopy
Film streaming platform. The library currently has access to a selection of films, which you can browse when you log in, but you can also request access to additional content on a title-by-title basis.
news on screen
This BUFVC database lists over 180,000 news stories produced by ninety British cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, with details of production, content and release taken from the original issue sheets and other data sources. A programme of digitisation has added some 80,000 newsreel documents to the database in PDF format. There is extensive background information, including a biographical database of newsreel staff, a database of abstracts of relevant literature, newsreel histories and articles.

Screenonline
Searchable collection devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Britain's social history as revealed by film and television.
Nexis
Provides news from over 2000 global sources - including UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and foreign language news sources in Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese - from the 1980s onwards. Updated daily.
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Gale Primary Sources
Provides access to the following historical newspaper archives: Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006; The Times Digital Archive; Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012; Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000
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Proquest historical newspapers
Historical newspaper archive which includes The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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