Learning on Screen - The British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council

It is a company limited by guarantee, with charity status, serving schools, colleges and post compulsory education interests in the UK.

Founded in 1948 as the British Universities Film Council, the BUFC was established by a group of academic staff from various subject disciplines across the arts, humanities and sciences.

Learning on Screen offers a range of specialist services and aims to know more about moving image and sound content, its meaning, context and scholarly value, than any other UK-based educational body.

Users from UK licensed educational establishments which are Learning on Screen members, may also order copies of programmes on DVD or CD post-transmission.

The Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage is an online directory to UK archives and collections of artefacts relating to the history of moving image and sound.

[4] Three large-scale online resources, which are archive collections of Independent Local Radio recordings, are delivered to bona fide users in UK higher and further education in collaboration with Bournemouth University.

Copies may only be supplied to staff in subscribing member institutions which also hold an Educational Recording Agency (ERA) licence.

This Week is accessed via the Learning on Screen website and is authenticated by Athens jointly with the TV Times Project database (TVTiP).

It is free at point of access to all staff and students in further and higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and to Learning on Screen members.

Learning on Screen is responsible for the world's leading resource for the study of newsreels and cinemagazines, at the heard of which is a central database holding over 180,000 records.

The BUND also carries information on content delivered as Cinemagazines - longer form single subject items included in British cinema programmes and some which were only shown to overseas audiences.