GSU Library Research Guides: Postcards from the Edge V: Film Studies: Videos

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DocuSeek

A search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos available in the U.S. and Canada.

Allows you to simultaneously search eight leading film distributors' complete collections.

Streaming Documentary Collections

VAST (Alexander Street Press)

See workshop handout for username & password.
Trial will be live through the end of April.
20,000 documentary films by 2013.

Films on Demand (Films Media Group)

Ask Nedda for username & password.
Web-based/streaming interface for the entire Films for the Humanities & Sciences catalog.

Film Archives

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American Memory: Motion Pictures
From the Library of Congress, online video from subject-specific collections, including early Edison films, animation, and rare vaudeville performances.
Berkeley Online Media Database
Includes some online video free to all users, mostly documentary, lecture, and interview content.
European Film Gateway
"Your single access point to films, images and texts from selected collections of 16 film archives across Europe"
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Vast online library of freely available movies and videos, mostly public domain and ephemeral film.
Paley Center Screening Room
Online video from the Paley Center for Media, including historical political convention coverage, pop culture, documentaries, and more.
Pinewood Dialogues
From the Museum of the Moving Image, streaming audio and transcripts of discussions with major figures in film, television, and digital media.
Prelinger Archives
Sloan Science and Film: Short Films
Short award-winning student films from the Sloan Foundation's film schools program, focused on dramatic stories about science and technology.
Texas Archive of the Moving Image
UbuWeb | Film & Video
Streaming video of experimental/avant-garde/art films.

Streaming Feature Films

Stream films through a Learning Management System
Select and pay only for the films used in courses
Swank has exclusive distribution of thousands of films: "Making us the largest repository of digital film content to complement the curriculum of any course."

BREAKING NEWS!

Midwest Tape is getting into the streaming market too, with a product called Hoopla.

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Video Approval Plans

Some A/V vendors are now offering standing order programs (a/k/a approval plans), such as...

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Follow @midwesttape on Twitter for announcements--they regularly offer webinars on standing order plans.