Do you Study Film? Here's Scotland's Moving Image Archive

From home movies to documentaries, from industry to entertainment

The National Library of Scotland has 1700 films and clips for you to watch online - and that's just for starters!  In their own words, 

"Explore around 100 years of Scotland's history captured by amateur and professional film-makers. Here in the Moving Image Archive catalogue you will find details of thousands of films and videos held at the Library."

 You probably know the archive as the Scottish Screen Archive, but it has a new name now ...

National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive

Click the link and take a look!

View more films of Scotland - our Film Students might like this!

Posted by the National Library of Scotland recently, a reminder that the Scottish Screen Archive has more films that might interest you.

If you're interested in old Scottish films, or film and TV history, then head over to this link (and bookmark it for later!):-

View more films of Scotland

• 10 Films showcased on the Scottish Film Archive website - click here!
• Scottish Screen Archive homepage: http://ssa.nls.uk/

We are the very helpful Whittaker Library here to help our performing artists with their information needs. And we're open this Bank Holiday Monday 25th May, normal opening hours!

The Guardian Film Show Review

Karen has just come across this useful link from the Guardian - specially for the film buffs amongst us, here is the regular Guardian Film Show column.  Why not save it to your favourites?

http://www.theguardian.com/film/series/guardian-film-show 

 

Background:

"About this series: In our weekly film video show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review the latest big releases, we speak to the film-makers and stars of the moment … and much more"

Do You Love Films? LOVEFiLM Subtitle Petition for Hearing-Impaired Film-Lovers

If you can't hear a film, and you don't know what they're saying - what's the point?

 

There is a petition asking LOVEFiLM, the major on-demand and DVD rental company, to include subtitles on all their new releases.  You'll find it at Change.org/lovefilmsubtitles - let's hope it encourages LOVEFiLM to consider the 10m people in the UK with hearing loss, and make it clear, at the outset, whether content is subtitled or not. 

If you are interested in services for hearing-impaired people, why not also save www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk to you favourites?

International Women's Day in the Performing Arts

'Whittaker', being a performing arts library, wishes to commemorate International Women's Day as it particularly affects the performing arts.  Do share any relevant links with us!

Here's the first - on the UN Women website, we find the One Woman Song.

Glasgow Women's Library is up early today with a blogpost by Magi.  (Not, admittedly, performing arts, but certainly women and libraries.)

The Musicians' Union posts details of the Women of the World music festival on Sunday 9th March, here.

Have you come across Women in Music? It's a national organisation: http://www.womeninmusic.org.uk/

There's also an International Alliance for Women in Music: 
http://iawm.org/




If you tweet, you might like to follow the #EverydaySexism hashtag, a project which was featured by the BBC a couple of days ago.

There's a London Concert for International Women's Day: the London Oriana Choir has a concert of music by women composers, at St Andrews Holborn tonight:-
http://www.londonoriana.com/current-season/

What's missing from this list?  Drama and theatre!  Please share any relevant links! 

India Today features TV star Toral Rasputra aka Anandi of Balika Vadhu, telling us what International Women's Day means to her. Read it here.

Meanwhile, Bollywood salutes the spirit of women, in the Indian Express today.  Here ...

At 9.45 pm on a Friday night, a good blogger doesn't just arbitrarily stop blogging.  Three cheers for the collective of researchers at the University of Sussex, who this evening notified me of their Reframing Activism blog.  Today they were highlighting the British Library's first oral history archive of the early days of feminism: Sisterhood and After.  Not content with one good blogpost today, they also hosted a guest blogpost by film-maker, actor and musician Jodi Nelson: Feminist Social Media Praxis. Jodi was asked a provocative question: "re_activism:What do you think the 21st century feminist looks likes?"

 

Scotland at the Cinema (National Library of Scotland)

Going to Edinburgh for the Festival or the Fringe?*

Cinema Exhibition

Daily until 28th October 2012

Leave time to go to see Scotland at the Cinema, at the National Library of Scotland.

"Celebrate Scotland's love affair with the movies in our summer exhibition, open daily from 15 June to 28 October."

• Edinburgh International Festival: http://www.eif.co.uk/ (9 August - 2 September 2012)
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe: http://www.edfringe.com/ (3-27 August 2012)

Matter of reel life and death: THE reviews Film at Tate Modern

In the THE (Times Higher Education) this week - a review of a digital cinema exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.  (Nearest underground: Pimlico.)

• Read review here.

Special Collections at Stirling University include film materials

Whittaker's nocturnal reading unearthed useful information about the Special Collections at Stirling University:-

Film and Media Studies has long been one of the strengths of the University of Stirling, so it is not surprising that the Library’s collections reflect this. We are fortunate to hold the papers of three filmmakers: Lindsay Anderson, one of the most important film directors of the 20th century; John Grierson, who founded the Documentary Film Movement; and the animator and experimental filmmaker, Norman McLaren.


The Lindsay Anderson collection includes material relating to all of Anderson’s films, including If.... , This Sporting Life , O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, as well as 40 theatre productions directed by Anderson. A large amount of personal material collected and kept by Anderson is also in the collection.


The John Grierson Archive provides a comprehensive account of the career of one of the key figures in the history of documentary filmmaking. The archive contains a wealth of material, including papers relating to the various organisations for which Grierson worked ‐ the Empire Marketing Board, the GPO Film Unit, the Imperial Relations Trust, the National Film Board of Canada, Group 3 Film Company, UNESCO,the Association Internationale des Documentaristes; Films of Scotland Committee and Scottish Television.


Norman McLaren was born in Stirling in April 1914. It was while a student at Glasgow School of Art that he started making short experimental films. His work came to the attention of John Grierson, who offered him a job with the GPO Film Unit. When Grierson moved to Canada in 1939 to set up their National Film Board, he invited McLaren to join him. In Canada Grierson gave McLaren the freedom to experiment.


McLaren's genius was recognised worldwide with a string of awards for his work,including an Oscar in 1953 for his short film Neighbours. Our collection includes material relating to McLaren’s films, as well as his correspondence, press cuttings and photographs.

• University of Stirling Special Collections website
• University of Stirling Archives blog - eg 'Portraits of the artist: Lindsay Anderson' (black and white photos of the film director)
• Whittaker's source was the Library and Information History Group Newsletter, Winter 2011 pp. 14-16

Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

Special event 14 October 2011: RE:Mind : Sound Affects Workshop - might also be interesting to people working with community music or community therapies generally.

Friday 14 October 2011 @ 11:00am
FREE (ticketed)
Venue: CCA Clubroom, Glasgow
Ages: 16 and over

Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

Call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900

Pete Seeger, filmmaker

Bibliolore has done a blog about Pete Seeger, whom we know as an American singer/song-collector - but there's more to know.  Read about his earlier filming activities ...

Click here.

See what the Whittaker Library has by Pete and his half-sister Peggy Seeger ... click here.

Internet Movie Script Database

The Internet Movie Script Database is an archive of up to date film scripts, all accessible online.

Films of the Empire Exhibition

At The Lighthouse (11 Mitchell Street, Glasgow) - 19 April - 22 June 2008. Contact person: Leonie Bell, Programme Director Tel: +44 (0) 141 225 8403 Email: leonie.bell@thelighthouse.co.uk