An examination of what film libraries can do in advancing film study. (CH)

Produced as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP), this publication provides government and non-government archivists and records managers with a comparative study of past and present policies and practices for selecting moving images for…

Because the National Archives did not have the capacity to manage the volume of films produced by government agencies in recent decades, in 1969 the National Audiovisual Center was created. Its function is to act as a distributor on behalf of federal agencies and to provide information on all federally produced audiovisual titles. The Center is…

This report summarizes a project conducted by a group of catalogers from film archives devoted to nitrate preservation, which explored ways of developing a database to provide a complete film and television information service that would be available nationwide and could contain filmographic data, information on holdings in archives and…

These appendixes contain detailed information about the existing audiovisual material exchanges which served as the basis for the analysis contained in the companion report. Descriptions of the objectives, structure, financing and services of the following national and international organizations are included: (1) Educational Resources Information…

Describes a video distribution service which was offered on an experimental basis by the French Television system. Nine participating schools received, recorded on video cassettes, and viewed films selected from the Central Educational Film Library with the help of an adapted videotape recorder, EPEOS decoder, and a television set. (CHC)

Analyzes Educable, a French program that includes a national educational film bank, a telematic server, and educational marketing. The analysis is divided into four sections: (1) teacher-users; (2) a classification of films by usage; (3) teacher use of audiovisual material; (4) the video on demand approach to a specific need. (KRN)