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The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.

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United Kingdom - England

  • London Transit Museum Film Collection  
    This site features streaming video of and background information about the films in the London Transit Museum collection, which covers the period from 1910 to 1970 and is best known for documentaries made by British Transport Films in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Lux Online  
    This site is devoted to British film and video artists. Includes video clips, new writings, other articles, and biographies.
  • Moving History: UK Film Archives  
    A guide to the holdings of 12 different film archives in England. Click "films" to search the large collection of digitized video, or click on one of the archives for more information about the archive and its holdings.
  • Researcher's Guide Online  
    Searchable index of film, television, radio, and related document collections in the UK.
  • Shakespeare in Film and Television Database  
    This site, run by the British Universities Film and Video Council, is a database of all film and video adaptations of Shakespeare's work. Each entry features a very short synopsis and production information. Includes a "references and reviews" section, which features bibliographic references to the film listed.
  • Small Screen: Vintage Broadcasting  
    This website features a wealth of vintage television clips, along with explanatory articles.
  • World's First Television Recordings  
    A website devoted to the pre-history of television in Great Britain, featuring early experiments in television by John Logie Baird in 1926. Archived are some of the earliest known television recordings, including Baird's experiments with his Phonovision system and early BBC test recordings from the 1930s.