digishorts.co.uk is a new online short film archive co-financed by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and Screen West Midlands. The site features streamed films from the digishorts scheme made since 2002, such as the 2002 BAFTA nominated ‘Bouncer’ directed by Michael Baig Clifford and starring Ray Winstone and Paddy Considine.

The library has just acquired all six volumes in the BFI’s British Transport Films Collection.

Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey – a founding father of the British documentary movement – it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain.

These films are now prime examples of innovation in post-war British non-fiction filmmmaking. The set includes classics such as ‘Let’s go to Birmingham’, the Free Cinema-inspired ‘Holiday’, and the award winning ‘Terminus’, directed by John Schlesinger.

The collection is shelved with the DVDs at the Main Library Issue Desk.

Freedocumentaries.org provides free streamed access to film clips and full length documentaries. A range of subjects are covered including globalization, the environment, war, slavery and religion. Films can be browsed by theme or region, or selected from an a-z list.

Interviews at the NFT is an archive of complete transcripts of interviews with international filmmakers, including directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters etc. Those currently available on the site include Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Victor Erice, Alfred Hitchcock, Alan Parker, Shyam Benegal and Michael Winterbottom. Topics discussed include Free Cinema and The British Empire in Colour series.

Transcripts of the Guardian BFI interviews can be found at the Guardian website.