Intelligent Television
Video for culture & education
Collegium
Ellen Bratina
Media and Education
Ellen Bratina directs the company’s relationships with television and publishing companies worldwide, as well as its associations with K-12 schools and universities. Previously a literary rights agent, literary scout, and corporate publishing executive, she founded a literary rights company based in Prague and Warsaw in the 1990s. A graduate of Marquette University, she has worked with media companies large and small in Europe and North America and has coordinated fundraising initiatives at several educational nonprofits in New York City.
What we're writing
Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education
Fluency in Film and Sound: A New Cultural Imperative
Funding Media, Strengthening Democracy: Grantmaking for the 21st Century
Video Use in Higher Education: Options for the Future
On Building a New Market for Culture: Virtue and Necessity in a Screen-Based Culture
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization
Tools to explore
MediaThread is a next-generation platform for deep exploration, close analysis, and customized organization of web-based multimedia content. Designed at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, MediaThread is built on open-source software and enables users to view video closely, clip segments, attach annotations and tags, and organize them with other media for scholarly analysis.
Archives for today
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005. Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.
Intelligent Channel
The Intelligent Channel presents a new stream of video for education and enlightenment. We knew this would happen!