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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dtyvd
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
The BBC flagship arts anthology series from the 1950s and 1960s. Many episodes did not survive but the site hosts several short clips from programmes on Jacob Epstein, Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman and E.M. Forster. Includes a 25 min. clip from PRINCE OF DENMARK (1963) in which Huw Wheldon chairs a discussion with Peter O’Toole, Orson Welles and actor Ernest Milton in which they analyse Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/ntdiscovertheatre
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Crafts, Dance, Design, Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- 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.
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- http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/index.php
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Drama, Film Studies, Information Studies, Languages, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- 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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- https://publicdomainreview.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, Literature, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- 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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- https://globeplayer.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- 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.
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- https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The Harry Ransom Center is a library, archive and museum based at the University of Austin, Texas. Its mission is to advance the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. Amongst its holdings are over 36 million literary manuscripts as well as a smaller collection of film and television materials. The centre’s multimedia page features an eclectic selection of videos, including talks by writers, features on aspects of conservation, and films about selected artefacts and objects held in the Center’s archives.
Also available is the Mike Wallace Interview collection. Wallace was an American journalist noted for his direct interviewing style, whose programme ran from 1957 to 1960. He donated the show’s footage, on 16mm kinetoscope, to the Ransom Center in the 1960s. A wide range of notable personalities submitted themselves to Wallace’s probing, hard-hitting approach, including Henry Kissinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diana Barrymore, Jean Seberg, Gloria Swanson, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Sanger. The 65 interviews are freely available to view (five are audio only) and come with full transcripts.
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- https://newbooksnetwork.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- 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
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- Film/Video
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- 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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- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/marketing/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Biology, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Nature, Physics, Politics and Government, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This clip sales site, which replaces BBC Motion Gallery’s Education site, aims to provide short-form educational video, licencing content from the BBC itself as well as a number of partners, including NHK, the Open University and CBS. The collections are divided into eight subject areas: Business and Economics; Earth Sciences; History; Life Sciences; Literature; Mathematics; Social Sciences and Technology. Searching can be narrowed by Collection, Topic, Age suitability and duration and users can save searches and create clip binds. Registration is required before users can search the site.
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- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This digital archive was launched on the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Featuring contributions from ten national libraries and twenty film archives, there are 500,000 digital objects here, with resources from three big European projects, each dealing with different materials relating to World War One. The site collates material from Stories From the Public, Europeana Collections 1914 - 1918 and The European Film Gateway 1914 projects, as well as including additional items from New Zealand, Australia and America.
The British Library, who have contributed to this project, have created their own World War One educational resource, designed for secondary school and FE teachers and students. This includes 500 newly digitised resources from Europeana 1914-1918, accompanied by newly-commissioned articles by historians as well as teachers’ notes.
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- https://tvo.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Education, History, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
TV Ontario have made hundreds of programmes and programme clips freely available online as part of an ongoing digitisation programme to celebrate four decades as a producer of educational programmes. Users can explore the website by Programme, Subject or People, or use a keyword search and narrow their search by decade and topic. The content includes interviews with Canadian and American writers, including Ontarian Margaret Atwood, who in this clip from 1976 talks about her life and career as writer of novels and literary criticism.
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