{"id":619,"date":"2012-05-25T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:04","slug":"british-council-film-collection-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2012\/05\/25\/british-council-film-collection-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"British Council film collection online: British Social History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection\">http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection<\/a><br \/>\nFree access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked. They are therefore fascinating to social historians. The site also <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection\/essays\">includes some background<\/a> essays on film history and themes from BFI specialists. and case studies \u2013 archive letters relating to the origins of the films. <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection\/essays\">http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection\/essays<\/a><br \/>\nThemes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London, WWII, eg <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/women-in-war-time\">women in wartime propaganda film<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>British Movietone news. <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/women-in-war-time\">http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/women-in-war-time<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Local government following a quest to become a councillor. <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/local-government\">http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/local-government<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out about England\u2019s green and pleasant land in the Green girdle: a 1940s film encouraging Londoners to leave the bustle (shots of the streets seem to belie this!) for the countryside. <a href=\"http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/the-green-girdle\">http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/the-green-girdle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each entry has copyright and technical details, some have associated notes and trivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/film.britishcouncil.org\/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked. They are therefore fascinating to social historians. The site also includes some background essays on film history and themes from BFI specialists. and case studies \u2013 archive letters relating to the origins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[32,241,243],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-cinema","tag-media-and-communication","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}