Help
This page provides information on how to get the most out of the National Film and Sound Archive website.
Navigation
The National Film and Sound Archive website has been designed for easy and speed of navigation.
You can logically and quickly access information in all seven main areas of the site, and three sub-areas of the site, from the navigation bars at the top and bottom of every page.
About Us
What's On
Our Services
Preservation
The Collection
Education
Shop
About This Site (you are here now)
Site Search
Contact Us
To navigate back to the home page from anywhere within the site, select the the National Film and Sound Archive logo at the top left-hand corner of every page.
Technical Issues
Screen Display
The site will look best if your screen resolution is set to 800x600 or higher with 65,000 colours.
Arial/Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts have been used predominantly.
Browser Versions
This site is best viewed with version 6 browsers such as Netscape 6 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or above.
The collection databases are not accessible with early version 5 Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator browsers due to inbuilt problems with these browsers. We recommend you upgrade to a version 6 browser.
Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) are used throughout the site to ensure a standard 'look' for all pages. If you are using a version 5 browser, Style Sheets may cause overprinting of text on the screen and in printouts. To fix this, go to your browser preferences and disable Style Sheets.
Some parts of this website use some advanced web technologies including Frames, Javascript, and Cookies.
We do this to increase the functionality and management of the site.
Plug-Ins - Enhancing your NFSA Experience
Plug-ins are free programs that you can add to your computer to allow greater access to a variety of multimedia information. This information would normally not be available. Below is a list of plug-ins used on the the National Film and Sound Archive website and a brief note on what they do.
PDF Documents
Some documents on the website are provided as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. For accessibility reasons, every endeavor is made to also provide these documents in HTML.
Some of the following publications are provided in PDF format.
You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer to view these files. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge from Adobe's web site.
The Adobe Acrobat Access Plug-in 7 enables vision impaired users to read Adobe PDF documents in Acrobat Reader 4.0x, providing screen reader support. You can download the Access Plug-in free of charge from Adobe's web site.
Movies/Moving Image
This website currently uses both QuickTime or MPEG1 (Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 1) format for its movies. We are currently transferring all our movies to MPEG1 format. Windows Media Player (already provided as part of your operating software if you are in a Windows environment) will play these files. For QuickTime movies, we suggest you download a QuickTime player for best effect (we recommend QuickTime 7).
Playing Movie Files
Clicking on the play panels will launch a movie in a pop-up browser window. You must have a version 4 or above browser to take advantage of this function.If you have a version 3 browser, you can view an mpeg version of the clip by clicking on the mpeg hyperlink located near the play panel.
Audio / Recorded Sound
This website uses MP3 (Motion Picture Layer 3) for all of its audio files. Windows Media Player (already provided as part of your operating software if you are in a Windows environment) will play these files. They can also be played through a QuickTime 7 (free) player or RealPlayer (free).
Information Accessibility
The National Film and Sound Archive endeavours to make information available through its web site accessible to all users. If you are having difficulty accessing or reading information, please contact us and we will attempt to arrange the information in another form for you.
Collection Databases
The Collection Databases have their own separate Help information. Here you can find search tips and solutions to common searching problems.
