Thursday, May 12, 2011

Very cool resources !

Film/Theatre related:

John Wyver, CEO of Illuminations Media in the UK (they made the filmed versions of Hamlet and Macbeth that aired on PBS last year) has created an online guide to Mosfilm's Youtube Channel. Mosfilm dates back to the early 1920s and this youtube channel includes their full, feature length films. Many with English subtitles. The problem is that the channel itself is in Cyrillic. You can read John's discussions in the form of a three-part guide to what you can find there.

Part 1 http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=1049
Part 2 http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=1051
Part 3 http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=1052

Music Related:

About the National Jukebox

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox

IMSLP now has a search-by-melody function...

http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Search_by_Melody


The Visual Arts

Los Angeles County Museum of Art makes their collection available online !

The Museum website is here http://www.lacma.org/

Their digital collection is available here http://www.lacma.org/art/ImageLibrary.aspx

Yale University has done the same thing

Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free

read about it here

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544

there's a slideshow sampler about halfway down the page.

The link to their frontpage search box is http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/





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