"Special picks" by creators Jason Moritz and Anna Liza Posas. They
are selected for their keen and comprehensive subject coverage, navigation ease
and pretty logos.
"Special picks" by creators Jason Moritz and Anna Liza Posas. They
are selected for their keen and comprehensive subject coverage, navigation ease
and pretty logos.
MUSIC
The
Mills Music Library is housed in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
With holdings from the 1850's to the present, the Archives approximately hold
230,000 items in a variety of and represent all Wisconsin's musical traditions.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Music
The
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
of Recorded Sound covers virtually every aspect of recorded sound from Mozart
to Maria Callas to Motown, from symphonic works to presidential speeches, from
radio dramas to television specials.
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/rha/rha.html
The Roughstock's History of Country Music is the only
country music history site on the Web. The exhibit looks at some of the influential
artists and songs of the late 1920's through the present such as: Gene Autry,
Roy Acuff, Bob Willls, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Lefty Frizzell, Willie Nelson
and Garth Brooks.
http://www.roughstock.com/history
Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) was established in 1958. The
collection includes sound recordings "from Mario Ancona to Led Zepplin."
The Archive also houses more than 200,000 recordings and over 4,000 print and
manuscripts items.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ars/ars.html
ORAL HISTORY /FOLKLORE
The
Center for Immigration and Multicultural Studies (CIMS) is a list of
reousrces for Oral History researchers
and offers links to international oral history collections, organizations, and
literature. This listing is provided
and maintained by the Australian National University.
http://coomb.anu.edu.au/~cims/oralhist.html
Columbia University Oral History Research Office is the oldest and largest
organized oral history program in the world. Founded in 1948, the collection
contains taped interviews of historical figures and groups relating to specific
topics and experiences.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/
UCLA
Oral History Program was established by the Regent of the University of
California in 1959. The program has built an extensive collection in regional
and oral history principally related to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. Curently,
there are over 500 audio (and some video) interviews processed.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/ohp/ohpindex.htm
BROADCASTING
Public Radio International index includes links to current
and archived public radio programs. PRI's mission is to air programming that
engages listeners and provide information, insights, and cultural experiences
essential to understanding a diverse interdependent world.
http://www.pri.org/webfiles/ppmail/ppmAil.HTML#Other
Radio Australia is the international service of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Celebrating 60 years of broadcasting, Radio
Australia is an independent and trusted source of information about Australia,
Asia and the Pacific. Using a multitude of languages, Radio Australia talks
to Southeast Asia, North Asia and the Pacific Islands, and tell the rest of
the world about the Asia Pacific region.
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/
The Radio Program Archive at the University of Memphis was established in the early 1970's. This collection includes original transcripts and tapes of early American radio and offers a wealth of cultural and political history for the 20th Century. Although every program of every series was not collected, the Archives' current holdings are a representative sampling of most series and shows. A listing of almost 2000 taped programs is listed in the Archives' 77-page catalog. http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/welcome.html
MORE SOUNDS
The British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) includes
entries for almost two and a half million recordings and is updated daily. The
Archives include published and unpublished recordings in all genres such as:
pop, jazz, classical and world music, oral history, drama, literature, language
and wildlife sounds from different zoogeographical regions.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/
PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS
The American Archives of the Factual Film (AAFF) was
founded in Iowa State University in 1974 and has a collection of over 13,000
16mm non-theatrical films and some manuscript collections. The earliest film
dates back to 1911, however the bulk dates of the collection are from 1930 to
1970.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/aaff/aaff.html
This is a selective list of films and videotapes in the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography Archives. Listed by date of production--a description
of the audience for whom the moving image was made is included.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/archives/guides/film.html
The Center for Pacific Island Studies has recently completed
a revision of its on-line Guide to Films and Videos about the Pacific Islands
on this site. The database contains 2,483 entries. It is intended as a reference
for those interested in films related to the Pacific Islands and includes films
produced about Pacific Islands or Islanders; filmed on them; or written, directed,
produced by, or starring Pacific Islanders.
http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film/graphics.html
PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
Footage.net is a global source for ad, film, TV and digital
video footage. At the site, one can search the footage trade's stock, archival
and news footage databases all at once. It is free, instant, updated daily and
includes millions of shots indexed online, hundreds of footage Web sites, up-to-date
contact information, and breaking industry and technology news reported the
day it happens.
http://www.footage.net/
The database gives direct access to over 8,000 records from
the Moving Image archives which include the collections of international
film libraries, national organizations, film and television producers, independent
archive sources and much more.
http://www.milibrary.com/index.html
"Whether searching for a pivotal movement in 1968, an extreme
sport triumph, an indelible image from Hollywood's golden age or chasing down
a shot from an obscure private collection, Sekani products offer a wealth
of unique choices and authoritative information in moving imagery."
http://images.sekani.com/
Surcat is the catalog of Survival's moving image collection.
It contains more than 12 million feet of award-winning material, gathered during
35 years of filming for the Survival portfolio of over 1,000 wildlife programs.
http://www.surcat.com/
The Library of American Broadcasting holds a wide-ranging
collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal
collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted
exclusively to the history of broadcasting. Founded in 1972 as the Broadcast
Pioneers Library, it was housed in the headquarters of the National Association
of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., until 1994, when it became part of the
University of Maryland Libraries.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/
The National Baseball Hall of Fame- Film, Video and Recorded
Sound Resource Department contains over 12,000 hours of moving image and sound
recordings. The collection includes interviews, game highlights, television
and radio broadcasts, animation, and music. Selections from the collection are
featured daily in the Library's Bullpen Theater.
http://baseballhalloffame.org/library/fvrs.htm
The National Digital Library Program is an effort to
digitize and deliver electronically the distinctive, historical Americana holdings
at the Library of Congress, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books,
maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Each link retrieves a list of American
Memory online collections.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
The
National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) brings together the archival
record of the major entities of non-commercial broadcasting in the U.S. Besides
textual record of public broadcasting's major institutions, NPBA also collects
and maintains a selected audio and video program of public broadcasting's national
production and support centers. Oral history tapes and transcripts from the
NPR Oral History Project are also available.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/NPBA/index.html
The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture Moving
Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) maintains a collection of African American,
Caribbean and African popular and traditional music genres; nationwide public
affairs television broadcasts; Caribbean and African contemporary popular music
collections; early jazz and tap dance film footage; and the experiences of peoples
of African descent as they have been captured via audiovisual technology. http://gopher.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/mirs.html
ScreenSound Australia, also known as Australia's National
Screen and Sound Archive, collects and preserves the country's moving images
and sound recordings form their first film images to modern classics.
http://www.screensound.gov.au/index.html
In
the making...
Sites to watch in
the future for important contributions to the archiving of moving images.
The Internet Moving Image Archive is currently under
construction. It contains 359 of a planned 1,001 archival films that are free
for everyone to use for any purpose except resale. Centered around everyday
life, culture, industry and institutions in the United States from 1905 to 1969,
this collection presents a wide range of images that have not generally been
available to the public until now.
http://www.archive.org/movie/
The National Moving Image Database houses more than 200,000
records (over 160,000 of which are in USMARC) contributed by over two-dozen
archives. The database structure, which is modular, was designed to serve a
wide variety of users, including public archives, studios, media centers, historians,
researchers and catalogers.
http://www.afionline.org/preservation/ncfvp/namid.html
Big
Links
Sites that provide more exhaustive listings of moving images
and sound archives across the world.
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
is a nonprofit association dedicated to encouraging film, video, audio and
online/multimedia arts. NAMAC's member organizations include media arts centers,
production facilities, university-based programs, museums, film festivals, media
distributors, film archives, multimedia developers, community access TV stations
and individuals working in the field.
http://www.namac.org/Resources/index.html
The U.S. Congress recently passed legislation creating the independent,
nonprofit National Film Preservation Foundation, a public-private partnership
to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical
societies and similar institutions.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html
WWW Virtual Library Broadcasters is an archive service
maintained by the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. This site provides
an international list of public and private broadcast instututions and their
collections. Over 35 countries are covered in this site.
http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/publishers/broadcast.html
Toolbox
Sites for downloading important moving image and sound software.
1-Step Audio Publisher http://www.cam.org/~noelbou/1-step.html
DivX MPEG-4 decoder (.avi) http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html
Elecard's MPEG-2 decoder (.mpg) http://elecard.com/download/
Cross-Platform Page http://128.253.200.106/xplat/
GoldWave http://www.goldwave.com
MP3.com http://www.mp3.com/
QuickTime http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
RealPlayer http://www.realplayer.com/
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