Film, sound and visual collections
Academic Info: Film and TV Studies Gateway - Directory of Online Resources on Film, Cinema & TV
Academic Info: Film and TV Studies Gateway - Directory of Online Resources on Film, Cinema & TV. Sections include: Film History ; International Film ; Film Reviews ; Online Film Collections ; Digital Library ; Classic Cinema ; Film Theory ; Genre Study, Film Archives ; Silent Movies ; Film Directors.
Afghanistan : Harrison Forman Collection
Afghanistan : Harrison Forman Collection This photographic collection documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s. The online collection consists of 174 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Collection.
Africa Photos
Africa Photos Africa Photos is a fairly small collection of stock images documenting the social and political landscape of Africa. The collection is intended for newspapers, magazines, or similar organisations. The images are available to non-profit organisations at a reduced price. The images can be browsed by subject or location, where medium resolution previews are available.
Africa photos from the California Academy of Sciences
Africa photos from the California Academy of Sciences 668 images of African animals, plants, landscapes and people/culture which can be searched by name, type, country, location and/or photographer.
AkaKurdistan
AkaKurdistan Based on Susan Meiselas’s 1997 book 'Kurdistan, in the Shadow of History'. Includes images of Kurdistan, with accompanying text, arranged along a timeline.
BUVFC
The BUFVC exists to support and promote the use of moving images in UK higher and further education, and the use of moving images in research generally. It achieves this through a variety of services (including an advisory service and consultancy), databases (providing indexes to numerous collections), and other resources and activities
CalPhotos: People and Culture
Collection of nearly 500 photographs from the Digital Library Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Chinese in California: 1850-1925
Digital collection of over 8000 images and pages of primary source materials which illustrate 19th and early 20th century Chinese immigration to California.
Digital Archive: Internet Mission Photography Archive
The historical images in the Internet Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centres in Britain (including the SOAS Library), continental Europe, and North America, reflecting the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad.
Dogon-Lobi Photo Album
Photographic presentation of the Dogon country. Photo and text by Huib Blom.
EBSCOhost - Image Collections
A number of photos of people and places, historical photos, map, flags, etc. Off-site access available for SOAS students and staff only with a SOAS id and password.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profile=image
Getty Images
Getty Images is one of the biggest commercial image collections. Its resources are divided between creative, editorial (news, sport and entertainment), and film. Each section can be searched in a variety of ways, and images can be purchased online. There are royalty-free images as well as rights-managed ones. The collection offers a broad scope of subjects.
Human Origins and Evolution in Africa
Links and class pages for Prehistoric Diet, Human Origins, African Prehistory, and Teaching Anthropology. Created by Jeanne Sept, Indiana University.
Index to Reviews at Koreanfilm.org
An index of reviews of Korean films.
Internet Movie Database
Consists of data on individual films (including complete cast and crew listings), television programs (including complete cast and crew listings), direct-to-video product and videogames.
National Maritime Museum Collections Online
Free access to over 12,000 digital images of items held in the museum collections of the National Maritime Museum Greenwich and the Royal Observatory.
Peoples of the world
Web site which includes a collection of photographs and travel notes from around the world with links to other related web sites. Searchable by country, ethnic group or language.
SCRAN
An online resource of over 300,000 multimedia records (images, sound, video, learning materials) from museums, galleries and archives in UK. It is available by subscription, but non-subscribers are also able to access to thumbnail images and limited captions for free.
Society for Visual Anthropology
Section of the American Anthropology Association, promoting the study of visual representation and media.
TRILT: the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
Database of over UK television and radio programmes from around 300 UK stations including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations.
Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library
Over 160,000 images including manuscript illustrations, early printed books, paintings, prints and photographs. The material covers the history of medicine up to the present day from around the world.
