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- Link
- https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/moving-image-and-recorded-sound-division
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Ethnology, Music, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division documents the experiences of peoples of African descent, as they have been captured via audiovisual technology. The collections encompass a variety of formats including motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music, and spoken arts recordings in several formats. Included in the broad range of audiovisual materials are documentary and dramatic films, principally focusing upon international political, anthropological, religious, and cultural arts themes. A unique collection of public affairs television programmes documents the local concerns of African Americans in communities across the United States. Public service announcements and commercial advertisements are also strongly represented.
Since 1980 the MIRS has conducted oral history interviews through its Oral History/Video Documentation Programme. These primary source video testimonies are part of one of the nation’s longest-running video oral history programme.
The collections are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Researchers from abroad may access the collection on site having obtained a temporary library card. Increasingly, the Center’s audio-visual holdings are being cataloged in The New York Public Library’s online public access catalogue.
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- https://www.itma.ie/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Dance, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Irish Traditional Music Archive – Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann – is a national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. Established in 1987, the Archive is the first body to be exclusively concerned with the making of a comprehensive multimedia collection of materials – sound recordings, books and serials, sheet music and ballad sheets, photographs, videos and DVDs. It currently (as of 5/2015) holds over 30,000 commercial and non-commercial sound recordings, 23,000 books and serials, 12,000 photographs and negatives, 10,000 computer music engravings of melodies, 7,000 ballad sheets and items of sheet music, 2,500 programmes, 1,500 videotapes and DVDs, 400 music manuscripts, and other materials such as posters and flyers. Sound and visual material has been digitised and can be searched via the online catalogue.
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- Link
- https://www.artfilms-digital.com/
- Subject
- Art, Dance, Design, Film Studies, Literature, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Artfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media and Artfilms offering more than 5000 films for arts education and arts practitioners. Users can watch a preview but must take out a subscription to view the entire film. Films may also be purchased. Films can be searched by title or by category (e.g. Art History, Dance on Film, Performance Art). Catalogues arranged by theme can be downloaded as a pdf.
Other Online Moving image
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- https://folkways.si.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Dance, Ethnology, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The somewhat cluttered site, and so not the easiest to navigate, hosts four podcasts and over 200 streamed videos including the music of Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and many bluegrass and jazz musicians. Several hundred sound recordings are available on the Smithsonian Folkways pages with excellent contextual and biographical information.
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- https://brittenpears.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
The Britten-Pears Foundation maintains an extensive archive and library which comprises one of the UK’s most important centres for music research and scholarship. The Audio Visual collection holds many video and audio recordings related to Britten and Pears’ work which can be searched via the online catalogue.
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- http://www.britishmusichallsociety.com/videos.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Dance, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links
An enthusiasts site dedicated to preserving the history of music hall and variety. The site’s Video Clips section provides links to YouTube footage of musical hall artists performing including Hylda Baker with Cynthia, Jack Buchanan, George Formby, Max Miller and Wilson Keppel and Betty.
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- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/operatv/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Music
- Type of resource
- 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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- http://www.rambert.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Dance, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
The Video Wall section of the website stream a selection of short ballets performed by the Company. Dances include Rambert Making Rooster a behind-the-scenes look at Rambert rehearsing Rooster, based on the music of the Rolling Stones.
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- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Dance, Drama, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. The collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theatre playbills and programmes, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. [Figures taken from site 5/2015]. Searches can be undertaken by subject, author and title. The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaux. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library’s extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to 1920 for the series "Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies.
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- Link
- http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Music, Photography
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Courses, Streaming/Download
The Centre for Visual Music (CVM) houses growing collections related to visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation and avant-garde media. CVM’s archives house the world’s largest collection of resources on Visual Music. The collections (the majority freely accessible online) include film/video/digital media and related papers, books, artwork, documentation, photography and artifacts. Committed to the curation, preservation, promotion and access to these multimedia collections, the Archive holds collections of artists whose careers reflect unique aspects of cinema. CVM’s collections include preserved film material for artists including Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Charles Dockum, John and James Whitney, Harry Smith, Pat O’Neill, John Stehura and others. CVM organises screenings and events and from 2015 has hosted selected films and video clips at a CVM channel on Vimeo.com.
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