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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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Record only
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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.
Other Online Moving image
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- https://kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- 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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- 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.
Other Online Moving image 
Audio
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- Link
- 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.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- https://www.kwls.org/audio-archive/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
KWLS stands for Key West Literary Society: an organisation which aims to promote the understanding and discussion of important literary works and their authors and to recognise and support new voices in American literature. Both strands of this mission are reflected in the content of the site’s podcasts, which feature a selection of presentations, lectures and interviews with well-known authors at the Society’s seminars and workshops. Contemporary writers such as Geoff Dyer, John Banville, Joyce Carol Oates, Siri Hustvedt and Paul Muldoon, are among the participants.
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- Link
- 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.
Other Online Moving image
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- https://www.lyrikline.org/en/home/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, Languages, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Multi-lingual German poetry website featuring over 10,000 poems read by over 10,000 poets. Many of the poems also include translations which can be read as parallel texts to the original, while the user listens to the poem being read. The site includes major poets from the early 20th century, such as Paul Celan and W.B.Yeats, as well as a wide-range of contemporary poets. Users can filter their search by country, language, genre (eg, political poetry, narrative poetry), subject, and poetic form.
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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
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image Audio
Learning on Screen