Film & Sound Online

This is a reminder that the library has access to Film & Sound Online, a database of film, video and sound material. Collections include:

• Royal Mail Film Classics: founded in 1933 the GPO Film Unit produced one of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film ever to come from a single UK source.
• The Imperial War Museum: the IWM film and video collection is recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century.
• The Amber Film Collective, which documented working class communities in the north-east of England from the 1960s onwards. Amber Films was one of the first independent, regional film co-operatives.
• Educational and Television Films Ltd: documentaries and feature films relating to the former Soviet Union, Communist China, the European Eastern block, Chile and Cuba.
• Films of Scotland: one of the most coherent local and national film collections in the UK, Films of Scotland charts the changing face of Scotland from the 1930s to 1982.

All films can be downloaded for research use.