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- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/operatv/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Music
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- Databases, TV/Radio listings
Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than three-quarters of a century of opera, operetta and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early presentations on experimental TV stations to current live and recorded productions released on broadcast and closed circuit television, cable, home video and webcasts. The database is easy to navigate and entries typically gives title, series, opera company, composer, conductor, orchestra, soloists, transmission date, broadcast station, duration and production credits. Some records name the archive which holds a copy and the existence of a commercial VHS or DVD copy is indicated.
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- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related material accessible by the public and houses the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive. The RSC archive includes videotaped performances of its productions at its theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon and London since 1982. Full cast and production details can be found on the RSC’s Performance Database and Learning on Screen’s International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio. The Library and Archives Catalogue also holds DVDs and video cassettes of commercially available Shakespeare-related material which can be searched from the RSC catalogue; this material can be consulted on site in the Library.
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- http://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Film Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Blogs, Databases
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is one of the world’s major archives of research materials relating to the entertainment industry. It maintains over three hundred collections from outstanding playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies. Materials preserved include: historical records and personal papers, twenty thousand motion pictures, television shows, and videotapes; two million still photographs and promotional graphics; and several thousand sound recordings. It is richest in records of the American film industry between 1930 and 1960, American popular theater in the 1940s and 1950s, and American television from the 1940s to the 1970s. The WCFTR’s film collection encompasses a wide variety of American and international cinema. Highlights include 2,000 16mm reference prints of feature films from Warner Brothers, RKO and Monogram Pictures – almost every feature released by these studios between 1931 and 1949; 1500 Vitaphone short subjects and 300 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1926 to 1949. The Feature Film Database gives information on the features films (title, country of production, production company, director and year), and ArCat is the database of materials in all the archival collections searchable by author, title, subject and keyword. All materials are viewed onsite.
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- https://www.performingartscollections.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Blogs, Courses, Databases, Discussion Lists, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Listserv, Video Sources
APAC, established 2015, is the Subject Specialist Network of performing arts collections in the UK and Ireland, and exists to offer a forum for discussing issues in performing arts heritage through regular meetings, an email listserv, study days and symposia. The UK Theatre Database will retrieve details of organisations which hold moving image and sound collections in their libraries and resource centres. It is the UK affiliate of SIDMAS, the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts.
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- http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Blogs, Databases, Information Sources, Journals, Producers/Broadcasters, Reviews, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
Website giving detailed information on American and British television programmes including single plays and drama. DVDs cannot be bought directly from the site but there are links to Amazon and YouTube. The site includes reviews, interviews, biographies, obituaries and articles on the history of television broadcasting.
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- http://www.bris.ac.uk/nrla/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
The National Review of Live Art (NRLA) Archive is a video archive containing performances from the NRLA festival from 1986 (the first year film records were kept) to its final year in 2010. Over the thirty years of its existence, the festival became a key event in the experimental arts world, covering dance and theatre as well as multi-media installations and sound and video art. The archive’s content reflects this diversity, covering not only the performances themselves but also discussions and interviews with participating artists. Given the challenging nature of some of the film, the site has a warning that it contains "material of a sexual and violent nature and deal openly with contentious issue" and users must be over the age of 18 to access the material.
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- https://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Databases, Information Sources
The Screen Plays: British Theatre on Television Project is based at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) in the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster and runs from June 2011 to May 2014. Funded by the AHRC, the Project is concerned with all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British television since 1930. It will publish a database of these productions, a book and journal articles, and will organise screenings, conferences and other events. This blog features news of the project’s activities, with reviews, research discoveries, drafts of ideas, etc. for discussion.
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- http://www.intute.ac.uk/creativearts/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Architecture, Art, Crafts, Dance, Design, Drama, Film Studies, Media Studies, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Databases
Derived in part from the resource known as Artifact, a hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), this excellent guide to websites on the ‘arts and creative industries’, provides helpful but not overwordy site descriptions and useful background material including an artists’ index and news features. NB Intute closed in July 2011 and the site has now been archived. No further resources are being added and no changes are being made to existing content, so the resource will increasingly become less useful and reliable.
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- https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/theatre-performance-archives
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
A collection of live video recordings made of stage performances, mostly in London. Since the closure of the Theatre Museum in August 2007, these materials have been held at the Victoria & Albert Museum and are now available for viewing at their Olympia premises. The listing given on the site links to details of each production, including length, date of performance, credits, number of cameras used in the recording and usually a brief description. The material cannot be viewed elsewhere.
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- https://www.bl.uk/subjects/sound
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Drama, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Web Links
The catalogue to the British L:ibrary Sound Archive’s collection of over two and a half million recordings stretching back to the late 19th century is now available online. The catalogue entries are precise, but it is not possible (as yet) to listen the recordings themselves. The seven main subject areas covered by the collection are Classical Music, Drama and Literature, International Music, Jazz, Oral History, Popular Music and Wildlife Sound. The site includes practical information on accessing the recordings, details of BLSA publications, and a valuable page of external links. In May 2009, a Curator for Radio was appointed and since then a new set of web pages relating to radio have been produced.
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