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 Internet Resources--Videos, Images, Sound Recordings, etc.

 

 

Compiled by Roxane BenVau, Media Librarian
 

 Astronomy | Audio Books & Poetry | Copyright | Film Studies | Foreign Languages | Image Collections | Historical Photos & Video Clips | Music and Concerts | News | Religious Studies | Speeches | Subtitling for videos | Women's Studies

This page contains an annotated list of some Internet resources for media.  Check back periodically to see updated information.  Find a broken link?  Please contact Roxane BenVau

                                                                                                           

Astronomy

Sky Map
http://www.sky-map.org/
A detailed sky map that is generated automatically using a database with the basic characteristics of space objects.  The collection contains images of galaxies, globular clusters, nebulas, clustered of galaxies, and quasars.  One can also see real photographies of the sky, by means of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that provide detailed optical images.  New data is released annually.

Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
NASA provides each day a different image or photograph of our universe along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.  An archive of the pictures can be found at: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

NASA Photos and Videos
http://nasaimages.org/
When completed this site will contain a comprehensive web archive of space imagery and videos created in partnership between Internet Archive and NASA.

The National Archives on Google Video: NASA History of Space Flight Motion Pictures
http://video.google.com/nara.html
A selection of films preserved in the National Archives that offer a visual record of the history of the U.S. Space program, providing coverage of such significant events as Dr. Robert Goddard's early rocket designs; astronaut John H. Glenn's first manned orbital space flight in the Friendship 7 spacecraft; the Apollo 11 lunar mission; the exploration of deep space and other planets; and the role of female astronauts in the 1970s and early 1980s. Several of the titles chosen have been cited at domestic and international film festivals or have received awards for excellence in photography and documentary filmmaking.   

Sky in Google Earth 
http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

Watch this short video to learn how to use Google Earth to view the sky.  Download the free Google Earth software, and then click on the sky button to view the sky above your current location and to search for stars, planets, constellations and more.

WorldWide Telescope
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

The WorldWide Telescope is free desktop software that takes "millions of the best images captured by the world's greatest ground and space telescopes, like the Hubble, and morph them seamlessly to allow users to take interactive tours of space." (K. Zetter, Wired, 2-28-08).  Users can pan and zoom across the night sky in a virtual trip through the universe.  Created by Microsoft Research and released in May 2008, the virtual telescope has four modes:  Sky, Earth, Planets, and Panoramas. It also lets people call up related data, stories, or context about what they're seeing from sources online.

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Audio Books & Poetry

Internet Archive:  Free Audio Books & Poetry
http://www.archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry
Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings.  This library of audio books and poetry features digital recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive users.  The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.                                                                 top

 

Copyright

Wanna Work Together?  (Creative Commons)
http://dotsub.com/films/wannawork_1/index.php?autostart=true&language_setting=en_768
A three minute, closed-captioned video explaining some differences between "All Rights Reserved" and "Creative Commons" copyright terms.

Film Studies

CinemaSports:  Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/cinemasports

Cinemasports is the Iron Chef of Filmmaking. Teams have 10 hours to complete a movie with a list of ingredients. Finished movies screen the 11th hour, the very night they are created.  CinemaSports movies are available from the Internet Archive.  The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.     

Foreign Languages

Babbel: Learn New Languages Online
http://babbel.com/
Babbel is an interactive language-learning online community.  Registration is free, and one can choose to learn English, Spanish, German, French or Italian.  Vocabulary words are spoken aloud, a picture of the word is displayed, and  the text of the word is displayed.  Once you learn a word, it goes into your vocabulary portfolio.  You can choose to join up with an online study partner, and can choose to communicate using microphones or chat. 

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Historical Photos & Video Clips

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
You can find more than one million pictures among these digitized collections, ranging from
historical photographs and architectural drawings to advertising labels and posters from all over the world.  To see lists of images on popular topics--such as Architecture, History and Events, and People-- and focusing on images for which there are no known copyright restrictions, click here:  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html#related

National Archives on Google Video: United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942-1945)
http://video.google.com/nara.html
During World War II, the United States Government financed its own newsreel for overseas viewers. This selection of government produced newsreels, deposited in the National Archives, averaged 10 minutes in length and consisted of several short stories concerning allied military operations in the various theatres of war, as well as stories of events taking place on the U. S. home front.  Note: Scroll down to get to the newsreels' section of the webpage.


Open Vault Historical News Videos
http://openvault.wgbh.org/
OpenVault, launched by public television station WGBH in Boston, offers access to video clips and interview transcripts drawn from programming created between 1968 and 1993. The archive is designed to encourage educators and scholars in higher education to incorporate these materials into classroom curricula and outside study.  Note: Video clips require QuickTime to run.                                                                                                 top

 Image Collections on the Internet

American Memory*
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
"The Library of Congress' American Memory project is a free and open collection of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document American history and creativity."

Artcyclopedia*
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

"Artcyclopedia links users to online collections of museums from around the world, with the unique ability of allowing users to locate museums by the names of artists they have collected or specific titles of works of art owned by the museum."

Canadian Museum of Civilization*
http://www.civilization.ca/collect/csintroe.html
"Search or browse more than 200,000 digital images of cultural objects, porcelains, glass, and textiles."

Internet ArtResources
http://www.artresources.com/

A gateway to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions. Up-to-date information on current and future art shows, emerging artists and world-renowned masters in the fine arts as well as modern artisans working in every imaginable medium, including wood, glass, metal and stone.  Searchable image catalog has 11,000+ images in the archives.

Metropolitan Museum of Art*
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been around since 1870, and its permanent collection is comprised of more than 2 million works of art and cultural objects.  The online image collection is comprised of more than 6,500 important works, including the entire European Paintings and American Paintings and Sculpture collections.  The image collection is one of the most scholarly in existence, with extensive physical descriptions, provenance notes, and detailed views of signatures and inscriptions."                                          

National Gallery of Art*
http://www.nga.gov/collection/
"Search the National Gallery's extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper that spans more than 600 years of history from the Middle Ages to the present day.  Bibliographies, exhibition histories, and provenance records are attached to many of the works."

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Provides free and open online access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Smithsonian Institution*
http://www.si.edu/
"Explore the world's largest complex of museums and other affiliated collections via the Smithsonian portal.  The Smithsonian collections own more than 136 million artworks, objects, and specimens, and each museum maintains its own Web site, usually comprised of thousands of online images and hundreds of educational materials."

Timeline of Art History*
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
"The curatorial, conservation and education staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City produce the Timeline, which is an easy-to-use geographical, chronological, and thematic representation of art history.  Users can compare and contrast works of art from around the world, with accompanying thematic essays and maps, putting each work of art in cultural and historical context."

*Links and annotations by Thomas R. Caswell, museum studies librarian at the University of Florida.                                                                                                                                         top

Music and Concerts                                                                                                                        

Internet Archive:  Live Concerts
http://www.archive.org/details/etree
The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy in a lossless, downloadable format.
The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.

News

CBS News on Customized DVDs
http://www.amazon.com/60minutes
http://www.CustomFlix.com/60minutes
Create a customized DVD from the CBS News archives, one of the world's largest repositories of news content and historical footage.  The archive includes some of the best reporting and footage from World War II, the Cold War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, the space program, the Vietnam War, Middle East conflicts, the 9/11 attacks, and other important news events.  Your compilation DVD will be produced on-demand and shipped to you. 

"The Mike Wallace Interview"
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/
Access over 60 editions of "The Mike Wallace Interview."  The University of Texas Austin makes these original ABC broadcasts free online with no sign-in required.  Wallace interviews personalities such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas,  labor leader Walter Reuther, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and surrealist painter Salvador Dali.  There are links to the videos and to their transcripts.

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Religious Studies

Internet Archive:  Spirituality & Religion
http://www.archive.org/details/audio_religion
Listen to sermons and lectures concerning religion and spirituality, such as Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures, The Bible Podcast, Sermons & Religious LecturesThe Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.                                                                                                                                        top

Swami Vivekananda on Hinduism, 1893
http://www.udeps.com/Vivekananda.html
This YouTube video provides the voice and text of a speech by Swami Vivekananda's on the topic of Hinduism given on September 11, 1893.

Speeches  

American Rhetoric
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Database of 5000+ full text, audio and video streaming versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.  Includes "Top 100" political speeches of the 20th century, movies speeches, and Rhetoric of 9-11.Ful

Subtitling for Videos

dotSUB
http://dotsub.com/
Free website that encourages users to add subtitles to video clips in English and other languages in order to make these videos accessible to the hearing impaired and speakers of foreign languages.  Offers a list of free videos that have been subtitled in various languages.

Women's Studies

American Women Through Time
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html
A detailed timeline, from prehistory to the 20th century, that has about 800 links to relevant online sources, such diaries and letters, photo collections, and lectures by historians.  Also includes links to other timelines on Women's History.


l text, audio, and video  database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th                                                                                                                                

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