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- https://www.calacademy.org
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Development Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, General Science, Nature, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A voice for biodiversity research and exploration, and environmental education, the California Academy of Science’s site offers a wide range of learning experiences via mobile applications, interactives and animal webcams. The Video Library showcases short films on the latest discoveries and research findings made by Academy scientists around the world. Prolific series include: Science Today, Ocean, Space, Human Impacts and Sustainability, Behind the Scenes and Weather and Climate. A significant number of past Lectures can be listened to as podcasts via iTunes and these are organised into four categories: Space, Life, Earth and Tech.
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- http://cottonfaminepoetry.exeter.ac.uk/database/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums
This is a unique database of poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. Many of the poems are by the mill workers most affected by the famine and are written in the Lancashire dialect. The poems, published by the local newspapers of that time, are presented here with a commentary, audio recitations and musical performances which draw directly from them. This is an ongoing project of special interest for literary scholars and historians. There are some 100 poems collated so far, of which some are of a high quality, according to Dr Simon Rennie. For example, a Work, Lads, and Think by wool sorter Williffe Cunliam. The database can be searched by date, publisher and place of publication.
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- https://liverpoolpicturepalace.wordpress.com/about-us/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Archives/Museums, Lists, Streaming/Download
The cinema as a place of popular mass entertainment towered over Liverpool in the first half of the last century. This left a rich legacy, not only of picture house buildings, but also of the pictures made for an insatiable and loyal audience. This site is devoted to collecting and preserving stories and images from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen in Liverpool: old black and white photographs, posters, handbills, programmes and lobby cards together with interviews and essays bear witness to the important role that cinema played in the lives of the working people of Liverpool. Some of the gems included are: an interview with filmmaker Alex Cox, who visits the Futuristic Cinema and recounts his memories of the first film he ever watched there; an interview with actor Ricky Tomlinson; and the oral histories from the projectionists, usherettes and organ players. The website is a ‘living archive’ which means that anyone with a story about cinemas in Liverpool is welcomed to share it.
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- http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Architecture, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Lists
Website dedicated to recording and archiving the architectural history of all Scottish purpose built cinemas, with particular emphasis on the cinemas of Glasgow and Edinburgh. There is a section listing all the cinemas that currently hold a ‘listed building’ status, with photographs and links to the Historic Scotland official description. It is also possible to search for a particular cinema by name, address, town, architect and status via the Scottish Cinema Database.
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- https://animation.filmarchives.jp/en/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This site is operated by the National Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. It was established in 2017 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese animation. The resource has been organised around four main sections: Categories, List of Works, List of Authors and the Noburo Ofuki Memorial Museum. Animation works can be searched by genre, type of motion, technique and character. The oldest film that can be watched on the site is The Dull Sword by Junichi Kouchi, which was released in June 1917. Other gems include, ?/Rhythmic Triangles/Fighting Cards (Shigehi Ogino, 1932), The Animal Olympics (Yasuji Murata, 1928) and Diseases Spread (Sanae Yamamoto, 1926), which was made to promote public awareness about hygiene.
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- https://www.conservethesound.de/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Lists, Streaming/Download
This is a German online archive/museum for sounds considered to be in danger of disappearing. The project was created in 2013 and is continuously expanding. Sounds can be searched chronologically and/or by selecting the image of an object. For example, a picture of a ‘library stamp’ is linked to an audio file with the sound of the stamp in action, a slide show of images depicting the stamp from different angles and a record with a brief description of the object. There are video interviews with collaborators who give an insight into the world of disappearing sounds, and the public is offered the possibility of preserving and exhibiting sounds thought to be about to vanish by uploading them to their archive.
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- http://www.culturalequity.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Ethnology, Languages, Music, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Lists, Streaming/Download
The idea that the expressive traditions of all local and ethnic cultures should be equally valued was at the heart of musicologist Alan Lomax’s career. His Sound, Photograph and Video collections, which are the legacy of his extensive field research carried out between 1946-1990, can now be accessed online via the Cultural Equity website. Gems include The New Orleans Jazz Interviews (1949), the England and Wales folk songs (1951-1958), blues artist Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Jones, and Caribbean 1962, just when the British West Indies were on the verge of independence. There are also three YouTube channels: The Alan Lomax Archive, which offers video clips from Lomax’s “American Patchwork” fieldwork (1978-1983), thus far including Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, Appalachia, New Orleans, Cajun Louisiana, Johns Island, SC; The Global Jukebox Channel with 600 recorded language examples collected by Lomax for Parlametrics, his study of speaking style, and the Cultural Equity Channel set up to provide Grenadians at home and in the Diaspora with an interactive online resource for Grenadian folkways and an outlet for cultural feedback.
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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_Plr7aQ7Twml69cRSfKI_3S
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Astronomy, Botany, Ethnology, Geology, History
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Among the many millions of objects held across Cambridge University’s eight museums, Botanic Garden, Centre for South Asian Studies, and University Library, are a huge number of wonders related to the world’s largest democracy: India.
India Unboxed is a collection of eight short films telling the stories behind some of these objects. The videos, which are available via Cambridge University’s Youtube Channel, were created as part of a year-long celebration across the University and city of Cambridge to mark the UK–India Year of Culture 2017.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/kewgardens/playlists
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Botany, Nature
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
The official Kew Gardens YouTube channel includes a selection of short films, which offer a unique insight into the scientific research and global conservation taking place there. Beyond the Gardens includes ten films tackling themes such as The Future of Taxonomy, The Plant Family Tree and The Fungarium; Plant Kingdom consists of 35 films, including the first known instance of a cricket as an orchid pollinator captured on film by a Kew scientist; and the 15 shorts in Inside the Millennium Seed Bank, focus on global plants which are faced with the threat of extinction.
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- https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-player/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Ethnology, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Lists, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
A selection of documentaries from the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Catalogue is available to rent online. Titles are added on a rolling basis and the rental film allows you to stream a film for 72 hours. Titles available include classics such as John Baily’s AMIR and David & Judith MacDougall’s TURKANA CONVERSATIONS trilogy (LORANG’S WAY, A WIFE AMONG WIVES and THE WEDDING CAMELS). All the films featured have trailers, which can be watched for free.
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