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MediaPlus is a service delivered to the UK higher and further education community in association with Jisc, bringing more than 100,000 The widest videos, images, and sound recordings to your screen to teaching and lens on British social, political research. Jisc-licensed material includes news, film, image and music and cultural content including high profile collections such as ITN, Getty, Imperial history War Museum, Associated Press and the Wellcome Library.

Featured content First and Second World Wars, conveying movement, including Alberto Cavalcanti, official instructions and statements Humphrey Jennings, Basil Wright, Harry AP Archive - An unrivalled collection of at home and abroad during wartime, Watt, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton and news footage, including Associated Press, conveying powerfully the civilian wartime John Taylor, alongside innovators and ABC News, and Sky News (launched 1989). experience of officialdom experimentalists such as Len Lye and AP’s coverage includes the Arab-Israeli Norman McLaren. The collection includes ITN Source - An unrivalled collection of conflict, the 2003 War in Iraq, the 9/11 classics such as Nightmail (1936), which 55,000 films from ITN news programmes, terrorist attacks, conflict in the Balkans, perhaps best exemplifies how British categorised by type of broadcast. ITN News US Presidents Bush, Reagan, and Clinton, industry supported leading artists in the was aired on ITV (News at Ten), Channel Nelson Mandela, and many more pre-television age, drawing as it does on 4 and Channel 5, and include unreleased the combined talents of Basil Wright and Getty Images (moving images) - 8,000 content, rushes and special bulletins. ITN Harry Watt, alongside WH Auden, Benjamin clips covering cultural, social, and political Open Enders are television broadcasts Britten, John Grierson and Stuart Legg. issues, including images from over 35 covering major events, live, as the news separate collections. Getty has drawn on unfolded from 1997 (the Death of Diana, Teacher’s TV - Not part of the Jisc- hundreds of thousands of high-quality Princess of Wales), 2001 (9/11 - the attack on licensed content set, but freely available to downloadable footage clips, to depict the the World Trade Centre and other sites), 31 UK HE and FE courtesy of the Department people, the places and the events that have March 2002 (the death of Queen Elizabeth, for Education. Features more than 3,800 shaped the world as we know it today. the Queen Mother) and 7 July 2005 (the concise instructional videos featuring The source collections, used to provide bombings of three London Underground engaging and practical in-classroom news, sports, personalities, lifestyle, wildlife, trains and a London bus). British Paramount demonstrations and commentary from locations, cultures, politics and more, and Gaumont British News provide historical teachers, administrators and other include Archive Films and Image Bank Films, perspectives from the 1930s through educational experts. Key topics covered plus Discovery Footage Source (wildlife, newsreels shown in cinemas. include teaching global issues and nature, science and technology), AFP News citizenship, behaviour issues, assessment, Royal Geographical Society with IBG - (news footage from over 2,900 journalists administration techniques, social issues, The achievements and experiences of across the globe) and many others. ICT (information and communications nineteenth and early twentieth century technology), and special education. Imperial War Museum (films) - travellers and geographers are translated A substantial selection of 50 hours of films through the photographs, watercolours, from one of the most important moving sketches, maps and artefacts they brought Purchasing options image resources for the study of the major back to the Royal Geographical Society, • Available on subscription for higher conflicts in which Britain was involved which are still held in the RGS archives. education institutions, priced via Jisc in the 20th Century. This selection from The RGS has provided some of the most band their holdings consists mainly of British haunting and valuable images from its official films, but there are also titles from archives of over half a million items, • Access is FREE for further education – just the USSR and the USA. The material spans including unique photos of Captain register with us the First and Second World Wars, post-war Scott at the South Pole in 1912, Ernest • Includes free access to Teacher’s TV for reconstruction, Cold War and Civil Defence Shackleton, sketches of the Victoria Falls both HE and FE films, and, most recently, videotape from by David Livingstone, and the last known the United Nations Television Campaign in photograph of Mallory and Irvine before the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996. they set off to reach the summit of Everest. Imperial War Museum (images) - Images Royal Mail - One of the finest British from the Imperial War Museum, including collections of documentary, public three collections: Art of First World War; information, animation and industrial films, Art of the Second World War, and a unique created by the GPO Film Unit and covering collection of proclamations. All the main subjects ranging across transport and figures of British art in the twentieth communications in Britain and abroad, the century are represented, from academic Home Front during the Second World War, painters, like John Singer Sargent and British industries from fishing to mining, William Orpen, to leading progressive the nation’s health - and developments in artists, such as Paul Nash, Henry Moore, the Post Office service itself. A selection Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer. of 16 hours. The GPO Film Unit provided The proclamations collection is drawn a temporary home to many of the best- from around 33,000 paper items from the known names in the British documentary

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