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  1. Bowery Boys Podcast Streaming

    Link
    http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-podcast
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Two New Yorkers - Tom Meyers and Greg Young - present a series of podcasts about the history of their city, exploring hidden stories from the metropolis, often focusing on a particular person, place or event and discussing everything from sport and politics to crime and music.

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  2. Facing History and Ourselves Streaming

    Link
    https://www.facinghistory.org
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Literature, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    This long-established American non-profit educational organisation offers a wide range of educational resources (including videos) on its website. Facing History and Ourselves exists to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism. Among the resources it provides are a series of video clips about Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Although some content is available to subscribers only, there is a good deal that is freely available.

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  3. Academic Video Online: Premium Streaming

    Link
    https://search.alexanderstreet.com/avon
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Architecture, Art, Business Studies, Design, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Streaming/Download

    Academic Video Online: Premium is the largest and most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 50,000 video titles spanning all academic subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 12,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street. From Jan 1 2016, it includes the new “AVON-to-Own” feature, where subscribing libraries receive perpetual rights to videos they select at the end of each annual term commensurate with the amount of the subscription, using an entire year of usage data to support selections. Subscribing libraries also receive Alexander Street’s Media Hosting Service at no charge.

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  4. Institute of Latin American Studies: Videos and Podcasts Streaming

    Link
    https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-podcasts
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Economics, Ethnology, History, Literature, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Series of podcasts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Featuring speakers from Latin and South American universities as well as European institutions, the podcasts cover a wide range of subjects including decolonisation, Latin American fiction in UK libraries, mining in the Andes, the legacy of Hugo Chavez, religious practices in the Caribbean, to name but a few.

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  5. Documentary Educational Resources Streaming

    Link
    https://www.der.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Education, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Funding, Streaming/Download

    DER is a US-based distributor of documentaries whose mission is to promote thought-provoking documentary film and media for learning about the people and cultures of the world. The films can be searched by title, geographical area, or subject. The subject headings are helpfully specific such as Aging, Conflict Resolution, Immigration, Language and Communication. The collection is particularly strong in ethnographic film. Each entry carries a full synopsis, a list of related films where relevant and awards won. A streaming licence service is offered and there are links to film festivals. The company offers sponsorship to filmmakers whose work supports its aims.

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  6. Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Culture Streaming

    Link
    https://folkways.si.edu/
    Category
    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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  7. Fifty Years of Coca Cola Television Advertisements Streaming

    Link
    https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Advertising, American Studies, Film Studies, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Organisations, Streaming/Download

    Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. The online collection includes five excerpts from stop-motion advertising developed for Coca-Cola between 1954 and 1956 by the D’Arcy agency and makes public for the first time eighteen excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964, which determined the best lighting for the cans, bottles, and performers in television advertisements. Featured advertisements include the 1971 "Hilltop" commercial with an international group of young people on an Italian hilltop singing "I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke"; the "Mean Joe Greene" commercial from 1979; the first "Polar Bear" commercial from 1993; the "Snowflake" commercial from 1999; and "First Experience," an international commercial filmed in Morocco in 1999. The site includes a bibliography, a history of television advertising and a timeline of advertising themes.

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  8. American Variety Stage Streaming

    Link
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
    Category
    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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  9. Paley Center for Media Streaming

    Link
    http://www.paleycenter.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Blogs, Streaming/Download

    The Paley Center for Media is a not-for-profit cultural organisation based in New York and Los Angeles, which is dedicated to fostering an ongoing dialogue about the significance of television, radio and new broadcasting technologies on the lives of media professionals and the public. The centre’s media collection contains over 160,000 television and radio programmes and advertisements, searchable through an online database which offers synopses, along with production credits for the programmes. Although most of the collection is not online there is, nonetheless, a lot of freely available interesting audiovisual content, made accessible via a selection of curated online exhibitions on the site’s Perspectives on the Collection page. This page feature hand-picked clips and programmes chosen by the centre’s curatorial team, which are presented with contextual essays and notes. The range of subjects covers the whole spectrum of US media history - particularly the post-war period, with interesting items on everything from the media’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a history and appreciation of Rod Serling’s classic science fiction series The Twilight Zone.

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  10. Library of Congress Webcasts Streaming

    Link
    http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/index.php
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Drama, Film Studies, Information Studies, Languages, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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