About Sheila

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    Archive & stills researcher with extensive BBC experience.Until leaving in 1998, spent 9 years as manager in BBC I&A TV library research department, training research staff re inhouse database, advising customers on various clearances. Also worked in Clips & Footage library & BBC Oxford, helping librarian re local news shotlisting.
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    Credits

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    The Space - BBC , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    2012 - Archive Researcher
    The Space - an experimental digital arts media website which is part of the cultural olympiad.A BBC & Arts Council partnership.

    Radio Times Digitisation project - BBC , England
    2010 - Archive Researcher
    Archive footage and stills research for Radio Times digitisation project.

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    Employment History

    Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails (Beeching report on railways 1963) BBC4

    Video Active - academic website which looks at growth of tv in Europe - researched BBC archive footage & stills.

    Super Sleuths:series tells the story of how literary detectives became TV adaptions. (Morse, Wycliffe, Poirot, Frost, Midsomer Murders.) ITV3.

    Cabinet Confidential:1975 Release of government papers re ceasefire & Constitutional Convention. BBC Northern Ireland

    Wonderful World Of Roald Dahl.Channel 5

    Revisiting Brideshead:documentary about the novel and tv series. ITV3

    Allied Occupation of Austria, 1945-55. ORF (Austria)

    Birth of Television Website - archive & stills research re BBC contribution to site.

    Nationwide promo DVD - highlights of series from 1969 - 1983. BBC (for inhouse use)

    Cabinet Confidential:Secrets of '74 - power sharing & UWC strike. BBC Northern Ireland.

    Fawlty Towers @30. UKGold

    Vicar of Dibley @10. 10th anniversary programme. UKGold.

    Escape To.... :travel destinations series. BBC Worldwide.

    Cabinet Confidential:release of 1973 government papers re Sunningdale agreement. BBC Northern Ireland.

    The Spider-man story. Channel five.

    The Story of Dr Who. 40th Anniversary weekend.UKgold.

    Spend It Like The... Beckhams; Chris & Billie;Guy & Madonna. Sky One.

    UK Confidential 2002. Release of Government Papers from 1971. BBC2.

    Explorations:Egyptian pyramids. Broadcast Marketing/BBC Worldwide.

    Clive Anderson's Conspiracies series.for BBC/BBC Worldwide.

    Great Speeches Series. Covered speeches by Earl Spencer, Martin Luther King, Jonathan Aitken, Neville Lawrence, Geoffrey Howe, Nelson Mandela & Bob Geldof.BBC2.

    League of Gentlemen:Behind the scenes -the making of the second series. BBC2.

    Theme Nights:Bite Nite (Buffy the Vampyr slayer), Suspense Night (Alfred Hitchcock), Manchester Revealed (looked at music & comedy)80s night (80s bands) BBC Choice.

    The Take. Programmes on Barbara Windsor, Irish Night, Singles night, hospital dramas, docusoaps. BBC Choice.

    Breakfast Time, BBC1.

    BBC Feasibility Study. Involved with research on how an Archive Development Unit could exploit the BBC archives.

    CTVC. Helped sort out archive of CTVC.

    London Network News. Shotlist various current affairs series such as the London Programme. Sorted out master VT material into tx, dubs or insert tapes.

    Clips & Footage Library. Research & sales plus shotlisting.

    Senior Librarian, BBC TV research library.
    Film Researcher Library Sales, BBC Worldwide.

    Programme restrictions project, BBC Information & archives. Validating the restrictions (legal, rights, royal) attached to BBC TV programmes.
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    Education

    Librarianship with media studies degree. A & O Levels.
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    Industry Qualifications

    November 2009. 1 day Archive Workship run by BBC Research & Development - looked at technical & online developments in Archive content.
    April 2007 - attended "Rethinking Television Histories: Digitising Europe's Televisual Heritage" - 3 day conference at King's College, University of London.
    Various Focal copyright courses.
    Film research course held at Huntley Archives.
    BUFVC copyright course.
    BUFVC finding moving archives & footage sources course.
    Stills research course run by London Publishing.
    Various word & internet courses run by the BBC.
    Pitman's computer keyboard skills course.
     
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    Affiliations

    Member of BUFC & FOCAL
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    Referees

    on request.
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    Industry Awards

    Various bonuses from BBC I&A including one for setting up film research post in BBC worldwide library sales department. Bonus from BBC Choice for film research work, summer 1999.
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    Skills

    Research, clearances, shotlisting. Also have experience in metadata through working on tv history websites where have had to add information to clips loaded onto site. Word & Excell skills.

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    Additional Information

    Industries

    • Online, 
    • TV

    Programme Types

    • Arts, 
    • Biography, 
    • Commercial, 
    • Documentary, 
    • Dramatised Documentary, 
    • Entertainment, 
    • Historical Documentary, 
    • Music Promo, 
    • New Media

    Specialisms

    • Architecture, 
    • Art, 
    • Art History, 
    • Arts, 
    • Celebrity, 
    • Cinema/Film, 
    • Copyright Clearance, 
    • Corporate Films, 
    • Current Affairs, 
    • Heritage, 
    • History, 
    • Literature, 
    • News & Current Affairs, 
    • Politics, 
    • Popular Culture, 
    • Programme Development, 
    • Rights Acquisition, 
    • Theatre, 
    • Tourism, 
    • Travel

    Licenses

    • Basic Driving (PLG)
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