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I was recently asked where to get film clips/trailers from the net. Came up with the following:

http://creative.bfi.org.uk/titles/ - British film institute
http://www.imdb.com/ - scroll down to the bottom of the page and there’s a link for ‘trailers’, which can be accessed via an index
Obviously, http://www.youtube.com (using our friend www.zamzar.com to get it to the children)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Health warning! All of these site will need checking! The videos should either be downloaded (copyright permitting!) or links should be made directly to that video. I wouldn’t necessarily want young children to be browsing these sites in school!
If you know of any other useful sites- please share

I was asked recently if I knew of any non-fiction scripts online, that could be used as part of a Year 5 literacy unit. No problem, I thought - but its much more difficult to find any than I ever dreamed of. So - if you are about to embark on said unit, here are a few scripts that might get you started:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass/bulletin_script_wed.shtml - news for kids - script of news bulletin
link to adult news scripts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/6180944.stm
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob02.html John Lennon ‘Man of the decade’ tv programme
http://www.safekids.co.uk/video-bicycle-safety-check.html - bicycle safety check (video and script)
http://www.safekids.co.uk/video-cycle-helmet-safety.html - cycle helmet safety (video and script)
http://www.safekids.co.uk/VideosChildSafetyCategory.html - full list of safety videos with scripts
http://www.find.co.uk/everest_expedition_2007/impressions_of_Tori_James - Everest expedition report (podcast)
http://www.wateraid.org/documents/splish_splash_flush_podcast_transcript_2.doc - Water Aid interview (podcast)
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/aid-works-transcript.asp - Aid works - advert script
http://www.lemsip.co.uk/transcripts/day_and_night.php - Lemsip ad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/script_archive.shtml - BBC archive of scripts including children’s drama, tv comedy, radio drama etc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/writing_scripts.shtml - 60 second Shakespeare scripts – differing formats
http://www.geocities.com/tvtranscripts/comm/ - transcripts of tv commercials (anonymised)
http://www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk/things_to_know/countryside_code/creature_comforts_video/script - a ‘creature comforts’ script