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  1. Jake Auerbach Films Streaming

    Link
    http://jakeauerbachfilms.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Blogs

    The website of the director of films of contemporary artists including Allen Jones, Lucian Freud and Paula Rego. Auerbach works wherever possible with the artists themselves with little interpretation. Links are made direct to amazon.co.uk to purchase the DVDs and there is a blog post.

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  2. National Gallery Podcasts Streaming

    Link
    https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcasts/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    A collection of one hundred Podcasts from the National Gallery, London, which each month takes viewers behind the scenes of current and forthcoming exhibitions and events. The average duration of the podcasts is 12 minutes and transcripts can be downloaded. The podcasts were produced between 2006 and 2015.

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  3. British Artists’ Moving Image Database Streaming

    Link
    http://www.studycollection.co.uk/bamid
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Databases

    A database designed to assist research into British artists’ film and video. It covers experimental and avant-garde film, video art, artists’ television, gallery-based installations and other works that use moving image and audio-visual multimedia technologies, made by British and British-based artists.
    The database provides as comprehensive information as possible about several thousand works, including the date of making, first exhibition site (if known), the original format and often a short synopsis. It is also a guide to the dispersed national collection of British artists’ moving image works. It identifies the holdings of public and academic collections, archives, distributors and dealers, their location and conditions of access.

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  4. WatchKnowLearn.org Streaming

    Link
    http://watchknowlearn.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Biology, Dance, Drama, Education, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, History, Mathematics, Music, Nature, Physics, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Footage Sources, Streaming/Download

    This American website links to over 50,000 free educational videos, organised according to more than 5,000 categories. The videos, which are selected mainly for use in primary and secondary schools, can be searched according to the site’s own taxonomy which is presented in an easy to use tree of hierarchies. Users can also search by keyword and filter by age level.

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  5. Med-Mem Streaming

    Link
    http://www.copeam.org/activities-category/audiovisual-product/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Agriculture, Archaeology, Art, Economics, Geography, History, Languages, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The results of a project to collect shared memories of the Mediterranean are presented on this website, which provides free access to over 4,000 audiovisual items from the region. Fourteen institutions from the Mediterranean region took part in the project, including broadcasters from Palestine, Israel, Spain, France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt and Croatia. The site presents a selection of curated clips, aiming to provide a picture of the heritage, culture and history of the Mediterranean area. The clips are accompanied by wide range of editorial content, offering the opportunity to explore by theme and collection, with maps and timelines to aid navigation. Themes cover arts, economy, trade, industry, eco-systems, water issues, food and cooking, migration etc. The site is available in English, French and Arabic. Now under Copeam.

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  6. Library of Congress Webcasts Streaming

    Link
    http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/index.php
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Drama, Film Studies, Information Studies, Languages, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    These webcasts consist of lectures and talks by experts, academics, researchers and archivist. The Library of Congress has many different sites, collections and projects, covering a wide range of subjects: all are well-represented here and have been divided into eight broad subject areas: Biography, History, Performing Arts, Education, Government, Poetry and Literature, Religion and Science & Technology. Users can narrow their searches further within these broad headings, according to project/site/collection eg. The American Folklife Center, the Music Division, the Digital Future and You project, to name but three. The webcasts come with a brief description, date when uploaded and fully searchable transcripts. There is also a section for recently added webcasts. Although the talking head format is slightly old-fashioned the content is good and its searchability makes it a useful and user-friendly resource.

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  7. Public Domain Review Streaming

    Link
    https://publicdomainreview.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Film Studies, Literature, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download, Web Links

    An online journal dedicated to celebrating and disseminating interesting public domain content. The strength of the collection lies in its scholarly but imaginative curatorial focus, which is on the ‘surprising, the strange and the beautiful’. The site’s content is organised according to Image, Audio, Film and Books. The moving image content features newsreel clips, fiction films, home movies, industrial and public information films and propaganda films. Each film is accompanied by a short contextual essay, giving the provenance of the clip, and links to its parent archive, copyright information and download options. There is a search function but the site is really designed for browsing and it is easy to become absorbed in the gems on offer.

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  8. GEOSET Streaming

    Link
    http://www.geoset.info/
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Ethnology, General Science, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download, Web Links

    GEOSET (Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering and Technology) is a freely accessible, searchable internet gateway to a selection of SET and related educational materials. Most of the videos take the form of ‘concept modules’ - rather than whole lectures or courses - focused on specific topics, in the form of split-screen presentations, in which the video of the presenter is in one window and the educational material synchronised and presented in a second window. GEOSET also links to other major sources of educational material such as at the Vega archive site and the Royal Society. Users can filter by age suitability, type of video, and subject.

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  9. ArtBabble Streaming

    Link
    https://discovernewfields.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    This stylish site features high quality, art-related video content from over fifty galleries, museums and cultural institutions around the world. The website was created in 2009 by a group of curators at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and can count
    such internationally renowned institutions such as The Prado, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York among its partners. Users can browse by Themes, Medium, Period and Style, Location, Language and People, as well as Video Type. Content type includes interviews with artists, lectures, documentaries, exhibition previews and tutorials.

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  10. New Books Network Streaming

    Link
    https://newbooksnetwork.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Dance, Drama, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Food, French Studies, Genetics, Geography, German Studies, History, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Social Studies, Sports Science, Technology, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    This is a useful place to visit to keep track of recently published books in academia and scholarly research. The site consists of a series of podcasts/interviews in which authors and academics discuss their new publications.

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