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- Link
- http://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other 
Record only
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- Link
- https://www.folger.edu/podcasts-and-recordings
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Podcasts which aim to further the study of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Includes the rapidly growing audio series SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED where scholars talk on a range of topics including translating Shakespeare, Shakespeare and music and Shakespearean comedy. The Folger Audio Editions are studio recordings, produced by the Folger Theatre, from the complete, unabridged texts of the Folger Editions and performed by leading Shakespearean actors. The site also hosts podcasts from 2010 to date of Shakespeare’s Birthday Lectures where scholars again lecture on a wide range of topics.
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- Link
- https://www.performingartscollections.org.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Dance, Drama
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Record only
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- Link
- https://www.youtube.com/user/ntdiscovertheatre
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Crafts, Dance, Design, Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
A substantial library of videos on theatre and theatre making produced by the National Theatre, London. Topics include choreography and movement, armoury, music in theatre and set design. There are many interviews and conversations with actors and theatre practitioners who have been involved in NT productions including Judi Dench, Peter Hall, Alan Bennett and Simon Russell Beale. There are also talks on broad themes - Brechtian staging, Greek tragedy and the process of rehearsal.
Other 
Online 
Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Record only
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- Link
- https://kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Courses, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar was created to realise Peter Hall’s vision for the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames as a world centre for Shakespeare study and performance. KiSS brings leading international Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, which Sir Peter Hall developed to be a ‘teaching theatre’. Seminars and conferences are held in the Gallery at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames and are free and open to the general public. Podcasts are available for each event and these are archived.
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- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- 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.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- https://globeplayer.tv/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This Video on Demand platform offers full length HD films of over fifty Shakespeare productions at the Globe to rent or buy. Shakespeare’s Globe is the first theatre in the world to offer this kind of on-demand platform for digital content. Every foreign-language production from the 2012 ‘Globe to Globe’ festival of international Shakespeare has been made available on film, alongside main productions from the 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 summer seasons, including Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, and Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best. The main 2013 titles including Dominic Dromgoole’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Eve Best’s directorial debut Macbeth will be made available soon. The site has some free content including the Sonnet Project NYC, which involves each of the 154 sonnets being read by a different actor in a different location in New York. The Muse of Fire features conversations with notable actors and scholars - including Judi Dench, James Earl Jones, Harold Bloom and Fiona Shaw - talking about Shakespeare’s place in the modern world.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://www.sp-ark.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
An interactive educational resource based on the multimedia archive of filmmaker Sally Potter. At the heart of the resource is a Visual Browser which allows the user to view individual key frames taken from every shot in the film Orlando and link them to other archival assets such as script pages, call sheets, continuity reports etc. Each key frame also links to the clip from which it is taken so that users can view each individual shot from the film. The site is clearly laid out so that users can trace each stage of the film’s history from development, (scriptwriting, storyboard, design) through pre-production, production, post-production, the finished film and distribution. Additional resources called pathways have been created by the site’s users featuring research notes, image blogs, and annotations linked to the assets they have used for their personal research projects. A video presentation in the FAQ section explains the origins of the project. The videos are hosted on blip.tv and require the latest Flash plug-in to view.
Other Online Moving image
Learning on Screen