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Intelligent Speech
2 April 2014
As part of the British Library’s commitment to delivering a multimedia research environment, they are exploring the potential of speech-to-text technologies for finding non-textual content. Luke McKernan, Lead Curator, News and Moving Image at the British Library, brings us up-to-date with their efforts. … continue reading.
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London Scool of Economics turns on to Audio
18 March 2014
The new book review podcasts from the London School of Economics set out to challenge the idea that an academic podcast is just a speaker in front of a microphone. Cheryl Brumley, Digital Editor for the Public Policy Groups blogs at LSE, looks at its development so far. … continue reading.
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Shakespeare live from Shepherd’s Bush, and from Stratford-upon-Avon
4 March 2014
In 1960 the BBC broadcast An Age of Kings, a fifteen-part adaptation of all eight of the Shakespeare English History plays. John Wyver looks at the production and its recent debut release on DVD.… continue reading.
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Cultural Memory and British Cinema-Going of the 1960s
17 February 2014
Do you have memories of going to the cinema in Britain in the 1960s? If so, then the team running an AHRC-funded research project at University College London would love to hear from you.… continue reading.
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Life As It Is: The Dziga Vertov Collection
3 February 2014
The Kinonedelja - Online Edition at the Austrian Film Museum brings together the earliest work of Russian film director and theoretician Dziga Vertov. Adelheid Heftberger provides guide to the Museum’s Vertov collection, including his contribution to the Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels.… continue reading.
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Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes
16 January 2014
Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, looks at how the experience of driving has been reflected in the cinema - an area that has remained largely uncommented on in academia.… continue reading.
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Gods and Idols
2 January 2014
Why are stars often called ‘gods’ or ‘goddesses’? How was antiquity used to boost the image of the developing film industry and its stars? What does this historical association tell us about cinema’s representation of past and present? Michael Williams explores the last century of moviemaking to answer some of these questions.… continue reading.
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Connect with audiences through Digital Storytelling
10 December 2013
Storytelling is a deeply intuitive way for us to communicate. Chris Thomson, Jisc Netskills, looks at the wider applications of this powerful technique in demonstrating impact within the education and public engagement sector.… continue reading.
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Visualising Scientific Experiments
22 November 2013
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, was established in October 2006 as the first online journal devoted to video-publication of biological and biomedical research with the aim of improving the productivity of biomedical research. In July 2013 JoVE published its 2500th video article.… continue reading.
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Screening European Heritage
8 November 2013
‘Screening European Heritage’ is an AHRC project set up to explore the ways in which heritage films across Europe choose to present the continent’s history. Axel Bangert (University of Cambridge), Paul Cooke (University of Leeds) and Rob Stone (University of Birmingham) map the terrain.… continue reading.