Films or clips can be viewed online via playback software, like Windows Media Player, Real, VLC or QuickTime. Alternatively, they can be used in presentations like PowerPoint or web based resources. The following sites can help with the search for moving images:
UK 'free-to-air' broadcasters provide access to programmes from their on demand services, usually for a specified time period (minimum 7 days).
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) is a comprehensive online listings service for UK television and radio designed especially for educational users.
Listings for more than 560 TV and radio channels with data from 1923 onwards.
Archive helps users identify both forthcoming and already broadcast material to support their work.
Data is available ten days in advance of transmission.
BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education that lets you record and view TV and radio online from over 65 free-to-air channels including an archive of over 2 million programmes. View on campus or at home (UK only).
BoB Curated Playlists
This is a growing collection of curated playlists hosted by Learning on Screen and curated by academics on a diverse range of disciplines, subject areas or modules.
There are an increasing number of moving image databases and collections available on the Internet, via archive, library and research websites. Some sites offer streaming while others allow you to download the clip/film. Below is a selection:
BFI Player - free archive videos of the UK’s rich film and TV heritage.
These are useful links to organisations and associations allied to still and moving images: