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  1. Archival Sound Recordings Streaming

    Link
    https://sounds.bl.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Design, Drama, Ethnology, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Technology
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    This British Library Sound Archive online resource comprises 40,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site and listen to 23,000 of the recordings, but for copyright reasons only people in licensed UK higher and further education institutions, or in the BL’s reading rooms, can play the remaining recordings. Downloading is available in licensed institutions. The collections to be featured are popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s), African Writers’ Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics), Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego), Beethoven String Quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years), David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa), Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups), Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners), Records and record players (developments in recording technology), Sony Radio Awards - drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997), Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada) and St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg). The project as been funded as part of the JISC digitisation Programme.

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  2. Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art Streaming

    Link
    http://www.rolandcollection.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Architecture, Art, Design, Literature, Photography
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Courses, Databases, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    A database of over 600 films on art and the history of art available for sale, including seven and a half hours of online preview clips as well as over 300 hours of complete full length documentary films, from a major collection of art films and videos. A clearly laid-out site with informative descriptions and background detail, searchable in a variety of ways: by artist, period, theme, location, audience age etc. The collection covers a wide range of art disciplines including painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, video art and modern literature and since October 2001 has been available in nine languages.

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  3. Louvre Streaming

    Link
    https://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Design
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Distributors, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    The Louvre art gallery’s site, available in French, English, Spanish and Japanese, has various videos available. Still images of the art works are given separately from this, searchable by period but not by title or artist.

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  4. Make Movies Streaming

    Link
    https://www.makemovies.co.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Design, Film Studies, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Courses, Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    This comprehensive guide to the world of animation gives practical advice and demonstrations which are aimed at teaching beginners in the classroom, but which will also be of more general interest. The site is divided into four sections: Animation Lessons (requiring Flash plug-in) in which one can study a large number of simple animations frame by frame, Scriptwriting, Curriculum (dealing with equipment, materials and techniques) and a section devoted to computer animation. The layout is very easy to comprehend, further complementing this very useful resource.

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  5. Solemates: The Century in Shoes Streaming

    Link
    http://www.centuryinshoes.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Design, History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    A multimedia cultural history of the shoe in the twentieth century, wittily and stylishly designed. The site divides the subject into decades, with the shoes of each decades viewable as rotating QuickTime videos, and short film clips being available to illustrated each decade, as well as more conventional text. The Flash introduction itself, illustrating a hundred years in shoes and sounds, is a tour de force in itself.

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  6. Saul Bass on the Web Streaming

    Link
    http://www.saulbass.tv/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Design, Film Studies, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Website which is dedicated to the work of director, film titles designer and graphic artist Saul Bass. The main site includes clips from the titles sequences of many of his films, including Casino, Vertigo, Man with the Golden Arm and Psycho as well as stills and a very detailed filmography. This resource. created by Brendan Dawes, originally housed Psycho Studio, an interactive project which allowed the user to re-edit the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, which is sadly no longer available.

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