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- http://www.firstworldwar.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Literature, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
The first world war is presented here in a series of in-depth collections which seek to inform the novice as well as the more knowledgeable user. These cover a variety of features related to the period, including posters, stills, moving images, as well as some of the best-known songs and poems from that time. In addition to this, there are sections devoted to individual battles, specific weapons as well as tours of the battlefields and the cemeteries, all of which are presented in a mixture of sound, vision and text. The video and audio clips can be accessed with Quick Time.
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- Link
- http://www.favoritepoem.org
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Part of an American project to encourage poetry reading at a local and national level, the over forty poems presented here (all in English - foreign titles have been translated) include works by such authors as Andrew Marvel, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost as well as less well known poets such as Joy Harjo and Sone No Yoshitada. All the texts are provided in full, in addition to which they can all can be heard being read by a selection of enthusiasts as part of a five-minute video (viewable using RealPlayer) which introduces the life and activities of these readers.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- https://sounds.bl.uk/
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- 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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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Biology, Classics, Current Affairs, Drama, Economics, Education, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, Geology, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Social Welfare, Sports Science, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters
A site which brings together podcasts from the BBC available on i-Player. Programmes can be searched by genre (e.g. Drama, Religion & Ethics, News) or channel. Searches on educational level can also be made (e.g. Pre-school, Secondary, Adults).
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Record only
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- Link
- http://www.opencontentalliance.org
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Organisations
The Open Content Alliance is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organisations from around the world that are building a permanent archive of multilingual digitised text and multimedia content. An archive of contributed material is available through this website and through Yahoo! and other search engines and sites. The participating organisations include the Biodiversity Heritage Library (including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum), many American universities, Yahoo!, the Prelinger Archives, and the National Archives (UK).
Other Record only
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- http://www.theatrevoice.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Reviews, Streaming/Download
Stylishly-designed online ‘audio-driven’ forum for debate about theatre in London and beyond. Its archive includes forum discussions of plays, interviews, reviews and debates, including contributions from Michael Billington and Richard Eyre. Technical support is provided by the Theatre Museum. There are a few transcriptions available.
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- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- http://www.uncommon-video.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Dance, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, History, Literature, Music, Nature
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Video Sources
American online video store of basic design and limited catalogue information, covering feature films and documentary material such as National Geographic, Nova, science, nature and history, also opera, classical music, dance and literature. The company, also using the name ‘Viewfinders’, specialises in supplying material in video rather than DVD format and the site contains a regularly updated list of the new factory wrapped VHS titles they have remaining in stock. They claim to be able to supply virtually any video/DVD that is in current distribution in the US. In addition the site offers a ‘Radio Program’ of 3-minute audio descriptions of recommended films.
This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 24/08/2005. This does not include access to the moving images.
Other Record only
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- Link
- http://www.57productions.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
57 Productions organises public events and distributes recorded material on popular poetic material in the UK, representing over fifty writers and performers. The catalogue offers for sale audio and video recordings by, amongst others, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, John Cooper Clarke, Linto Kwezi Johnson, Liz Lochhead, Adrian Mitchell and Benjamin Zephaniah.The Jukebox section of the site plays audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In October 2006 a new website will be launched - carrying new audio-visual, audio & interactive content including the worlds first Poetry Video Jukebox which will feature newly produced & special arkive poetry-films and iPoems will present new recordings alongside 57s back-catalogue, starting with 1001 MP3s. Access to the new site will be through subscription-based membership areas and by directly downloadable MPEG & MP3 files. Annual subscriptions will be £10 - to access all areas. Downloads of audio-visual & audio content will also be available at £1 for 1 x MPEG & 50p for 1 x MP3 files (all figures inc. VAT)
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.gresham.ac.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, General Science, History, Information Studies, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gresham College, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, has been giving free lectures for some 400 years. Over 2,000 audio and/or video lectures given since 2001 are available on the site for free, on-demand streaming or download approximately two weeks after they have been given. The main subject areas are Art & Literature, Medical Science, Business, History, Law, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Religion, Science, and Unusual, which includes Media, Education, Climate Change and others. Results can also be filtered by subcategories. For example, there is a section on Film under the Arts & Literature category, and a section on Film Music under the Music category. The lectures last, on average, between 25 minutes and a little under an hour. They all have a good number of chapters and a fair amount of information is given on the site as well as transcripts and links to related materials.
The content can also be browsed via the tab Watch which contains four groupings: All Past Lectures, Series, Shorts and Short Series.
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Learning on Screen