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- http://www.favoritepoem.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Part of an American project to encourage poetry reading at a local and national level, the over forty poems presented here (all in English - foreign titles have been translated) include works by such authors as Andrew Marvel, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost as well as less well known poets such as Joy Harjo and Sone No Yoshitada. All the texts are provided in full, in addition to which they can all can be heard being read by a selection of enthusiasts as part of a five-minute video (viewable using RealPlayer) which introduces the life and activities of these readers.
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- https://www.mediaed.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Streaming/Download
The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media. Videos are organised in the categories of commercialism, gender, health, politics, and race. Full length, low resolution previews of videos are available for purchase consideration (i.e. not for classroom use) and support materials including transcripts and teacher’s notes are freely available on the website.
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- http://www.tvland.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Homepage for a nostalgia channel in the United States which repeats old television programmes such as I Love Lucy, The Rockford Files, Batman, Gunsmoke, The Brady Bunch, Charlie’s Angels and many more. The site is rather noisy and littered with pop up windows which are something of an unwelcome distraction. None the less, it includes a wealth of material devoted to these programmes, including episode guides, short essays, stills, memorabilia, as well as the original theme tunes (which can be heard using either Real, QuickTime or Windows Media Player). There are also a number of new interviews with many of the actors from these shows that can be viewed using QuickTime.
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- http://www.soundincentive.org
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This engagingly-designed site describes itself as coming from "innovative collaboration of Washington DC theatre and audio artists, writers, composers, and citizen storytellers dedicated to reviving (and reinterpreting) the American Radio Play. Using sound, snips, music, and scripts from 1915 to 1950, we produce internet audio events and live RadioTheatre performances. Relatively little of this is accessible online, except for a few podcasts.
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- http://www.history.org/media/index.cfm
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Crafts, History, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A range of streamed audio and video (using quicktime) and downloadable podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg living history museum, whose aim is to interpret the origins of the idea of America, conceived decades before the American Revolution. The video clips include dramatisations of historic moments, illustrations of cabinet-making and coopering crafts; the audio clips include readings of speeches, examples of music, particularly African influences, and thoughts on war from colonial interpreters. The podcasts feature special interviews with historians and curators and presentations on aspects of life in Williamsburg.
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- https://archive.org/details/movies
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Film Studies, Politics and Government, Social Welfare
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
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.
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- http://www.gresham.ac.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, General Science, History, Information Studies, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gresham College, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, has been giving free lectures for some 400 years. Over 2,000 audio and/or video lectures given since 2001 are available on the site for free, on-demand streaming or download approximately two weeks after they have been given. The main subject areas are Art & Literature, Medical Science, Business, History, Law, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Religion, Science, and Unusual, which includes Media, Education, Climate Change and others. Results can also be filtered by subcategories. For example, there is a section on Film under the Arts & Literature category, and a section on Film Music under the Music category. The lectures last, on average, between 25 minutes and a little under an hour. They all have a good number of chapters and a fair amount of information is given on the site as well as transcripts and links to related materials.
The content can also be browsed via the tab Watch which contains four groupings: All Past Lectures, Series, Shorts and Short Series.
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- Link
- http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Dance, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Once known as I Hear America Singing, the PAE is an
onnline presentation of some of the music, theatre and dance collections of the Library of Congress. The site invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress’s collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials. There are special presentations on Patriotic Melodies, the Gerry Mulligan Collection, Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music, the Katherine Dunham Collection, and David Meeker’s Jazz on Screen filmography. In total there are over 235 resources available here. There is a rich variety of downloadable audio and video content, in MP3 and Real Media formats.
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- Link
- https://www.automaticwasher.org/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- American Studies, Engineering
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
This well appointed website describes itself as, ‘The website, cyber-library and discussion forum dedicated to automatic clothes washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, collectors of antique and vintage Automatics, as well as anyone who likes to do laundry and dishes Automatically’. It includes several QuickTime movie files and a few audio selections and a ‘cyber museum’ is under construction.
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- http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
This gateway from the American Rhetoric site links to a plethora of websites that provide either text or audio files of famous speeches, with a predominantly American bias. The individual items are listed alphabetically, although it is unfortunate that individuals are listed by their first name (i.e. Winston Churchill is under W). Some of the highlights include Charlton Heston on gun control, Jeff Daniels reading Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor speech and William Faulkner accepting the Nobel Prize.
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