LibGuides: Media & Communication Studies: Multimedia Resources

Media Resources

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AVON : Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
AVON: Academic Video Online provides unlimited access to more than 80,000 videos, including documentaries, interviews, field recordings, and films. All of the videos have closed captioning available, as well as running transcripts. Users can email videos, embed them into Canvas, and create clips.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) - a huge library of over 2 million TV and radio programmes and feature films that have been broadcast by BBC, ITV, Ch4, Ch5 and over 70 other channels. Create playlists to watch later or edit clips and embed in your presentations

British Pathe This link opens in a new window
Contains British Pathe's newsreel film library (3,500 hours of newsreel film) online with downloadable copies available for free at low resolution. You can search by date, range of years, keyword and type of film.

BFI Screen Online This link opens in a new window
Online encyclopaedia of British film and television. Includes hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the collections of the BFI National Archive.

BFI Player free collections This link opens in a new window
Over 11,000 archives films made available from the BFI (British Film Institute), national and regional archives.

British Library Archival Sound Recordings This link opens in a new window
Includes 80,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments. Click on Oral History on the side menu to access interview recordings.

EUScreen This link opens in a new window
EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an online streaming service for films and documentaries. Content includes popular documentaries, Oscar winners and nominees, classic films, and independent films. Swansea University users can have full access to several dozen films which the Library has purchased for teaching. These films will be displayed after you login in and can be accessed from any device including computer, IOS and Android devices.

Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window
This resource contains digitizations of popular culture collections from the U.S. and U.K. between 1950 to 1975. These original archival materials are from various libraries and archives. Topics include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War. The collection includes pamphlets, letters, government files, eye witness accounts, underground magazines, visual and video materials and ephemera and memorabilia. Part II contains additional material, such as music, press kits, mail order catalogues, advertising proofs, additional photos from the Mirrorpix archives, and documents on student unrest and the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the National Archives.