Film and Sound Online

Getting Started Guide

Login to the service at http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk

The service opens at the Standard Search page (below).

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How to search quickly:

Hot Tip!

You may want to truncate words, (put a character at the end to search for variations of that word).

An asterisk at the end of the word will search for zero or more letters at the end of the word e.g. scot* will find: scotch, Scots, Scotland, Scottish etc.

View records

Once you have found some records they will display on the Search Results page as shown here. To look at a full record, click on the title.

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Searching using the Browse facility

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You can find more information about a film collection by clicking on its name. To browse the contents, click on Browse all titles in this collection above the text and you will be taken to a Search Results page with all films listed. You may explore subject headings by clicking on More Topics and browse by topics and sub-topics until you find films of interest to you. Click the highlighted links to see what films are available in each sub-topic.

Full Record

You can email the descriptive text of a film to yourself. From the Search Results page (on the previous page), click on the title in the list to get to the full record. From a full record page, click the link to Email this text below the picture on the left-hand side of the descriptive text. You can then fill in the email address to which you wish to send the record, plus an optional subject line and additional comment before you Submit the details.

Download films

You can either download a film in segments, or download the entire film.

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Follow the instructions on the screen for your browser to download the segment or film. To play the segment or film, open it in QuickTime or Windows Media Player.

Help and Exit

Context-sensitive help is available for all parts of the interface. The Help option is located on the menu bar. Close the window to return to the interface Please use the Exit link when you are finished using the service. You will be automatically logged out after a period of non-use of the interface.