AHRC - The Arts and Humanities Research Council funded the BCHRP.

The BECTU History Project has been running since the late 1980s. It records life memories from the compass of film, television, radio and related areas of production. Thousands of hours of recorded speech are preserved for posterity.

We also have links with the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). Their Newsreel Project also partly draws on the BECTU transcriptions. They have also launched Film and Sound Online which is making high quality video materials available for academic use within the UK educational community.

The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) is a UK national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities.

British Pathe have digitised all 3500 hours of their newsreel archive and made it available online. You can view preview items and, if required, license high resolution copies. Samples are in Windows Media format, but QuickTime is rumoured to be on the way. Player software is available for Windows, Mac and Sun Solaris.

If you're interested in cinema and TV, you will probably be interested in the British Film Institute. They provide a wide-ranging resources gateway and a new site devoted to British cinema and television called screenonline. You probably already know about the Internet Movie Database.

When Kine Weekly ceased publication it was merged into Today's Cinema, later renamed Screen International. Screen International now has its own web site called ScreenDaily. Picture Post was the Kine Weekly stablemate which pioneered photo-journalism in the UK. Another innovative publication from the Odhams publishing group was the famous Eagle comic.