External Site: Internet Moving Images Archive[info]
Part of the Internet Archive which also covers archived web pages (The Wayback Machine), audio and software, the Internet Moving Images Archive contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these streamed videos are available for free download. At the heart of the collection are the Prelinger Archives of documentary films illustrating everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. In this collection alone there are around 2000 films.
Other sub-collections include Iraq War, Classic Feature Films, Computer Chronicles, Net Cafe, Democracy Now!, Cinemocracy, Election 2004, Youth Media, SISGRAPH, Open Mind, Shaping San Francisco, Brick Fillms, Video Games, Film Chest Vintage Cartoons, Mosaic Middle East News, AV Geeks, SabuCat Movie Trailers, Universal Newsreels, Media Burn, BBS Documentaries, German Cinema, Globians Film Festival, Deep Dish TV, UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos, Coffee House TV, Fadiman Social Documentaries, Sports Videos, Kino French Fillms, Drive-in Movie Ads, and Alternate Focus. The archive’s collection of audio recordings ranges from alternative news programming to Grateful Dead concerts, book and poetry readings, and original music contributed by users.
The individual audio sub-collections are: Live Music Archive, Grateful Dead, Netlabels, Open Source Audio, Presidential Recordings, Democracy Now, 78 RPMs, Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures, Childhood Matters, GenderTalk, Conference Proceedings, Other Minds Archive, Berkeley Groks Science Radio, Rustbelt Radio, LibriVox, Open Democracy, Old Time Radio, Mother Jones Radio, Talking Matters, Free Speech Radio News, KXJZ’s Insight, and Naropa.In addition, the Educational Resources section of the archive has recordings from ArsDigita University, MIT OpenCourseWare, MRSI Math Lectures, Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses, and Naropa poetics Audio Archives. Streaming uses Real and MPEG formats and downloads are available in a choice of MPEG 1-4 The Archive is a major contributor to the Open Video Project.