Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2019

Making History

Making History is a set of online resources designed by Museums Victoria to support students, individuals and community groups as they investigate and create a short digital history (up to 3 minutes). This site guides you through the process to research, produce and share a digital history about a person or event. 

Modules include :
  1. Introduction to Digital History
  2. Choose Your Theme
  3. Research
  4. Create a Storyboard
  5. Edit Your Digital History
  6. Share Your Digital History
There is also a Student Showcase where you can select from more than 70 videos from undergraduate students studying the Making Histories course at Monash University, Secondary-aged students across Victoria, and Primary-aged students across Victoria.

These modules are a great was to create a family story for a reunion or to focus on a particular family member or event, and it is all free online.  Check out what Making History has to offer.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Britain on Film

An array of early ‘home movies’ are among thousands of historic films available to watch through a new British Film Institute service. Launched earlier this month, Britain on Film provides access to a vast archive of films dating back 120 years, giving a vivid insight into family life at the time. Users can search the archive via a map of the British Isles, enabling them to zoom in and find videos relating to the places their ancestors came from. Highlights include the Passmore Family Collection, which includes footage of children playing on a beach in Bognor Regis in 1903 – thought to be the earliest surviving home movie in existence. 
Around 2,500 films including home movies, documentaries and news footage from Victorian times up to the 1980s is now available online.  The films have been digitised thanks to National Lottery money and the aim is to have 10,000 available within three years.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

British Pathe

British Pathe is a collection of news, news film and movies spanning the years from 1896 to 1976,  not only from Britain, but from around the globe. Amongst the 90,000 films that British Pathé have put online (of which 85,000 are newly uploaded) you’ll find coronations, sports activities, fashions of the day, interviews with celebrities, the Royal Family, the Titanic, the destruction of the Hindenburg, British pastimes, gardens, military, parades, travel, culture and 1000s more. Their WW1 Definitive Collection alone contains over 1000 films, which even includes a bunch of films with the Australian and New Zealand military personnel.
Pathé News was founded by Charles Pathe, a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1970 in the United Kingdom, as well as being a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive changed its name a few times over the years, but is now known “British Pathé”.
Viewable on the British  Pathé website you can search by keyword, or you can browse through their categories:
- Entertainment & Humour
- Fashion & Music
- Historical Figures & Celebrities
- Lifestyle & Culture
- Religion & Politics
- Science & Technology
- Sport & Leisure
- Trade & Industry
- Travel & Exploration
- War & Revolution