Internet Archive
Massive collection of archived webpages, videos, audio files, texts,
software, and educational materials. Video content includes documentaries,
news broadcasts, features films, government training films, and cartoons.
Audio content is particularly rich in live performance recordings, but
also includes Presidential speeches and White House tapes, alternative
and experimental recordings, Beat poetry readings, 78 RPM recordings,
and radio broadcasts.
American Memory
Hosted by the Library of Congress, "American Memory provides free
and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound
recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience." Video content includes early
news film of the Spanish-American War, films of American factories,
the September 11, 2001 Documentary Project, footage of American Presidents,
and vaudeville. Audio files include materials from the Emile Berliner
and Edison Recording Companies, a large collection of ethnographic and
folk recordings, and slave narratives.
National
Archives Videos
Includes NASA videos, newsreels, and Department of the Interior Motion
Pictures
YouTube
Source for a wide variety of videos, from early television to home movies,
news to popular, documentary to mockumentary. Includes music videos
by major artists.
FOLKSTREAMS.NET
"The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve
of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced
by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the
arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on
the website together with background materials that highlight the history
and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films."
THE RED HOT JAZZ
ARCHIVE
"A history of Jazz before 1930." Site includes sound recordings,
films, biographical material, and essays. Requires Real Player.
CYLINDER
PRESERVATION AND DIGITIZATION PROJECT
A digital collection of over 5,000 cylinder recordings held by the UCSB
Libraries, Department of Special Collections. Recordings can be freely
downloaded or streamed online.
UKRANIAN
FOLKLORE SOUND RECORDINGS
Ca. 150 hours of field recordings recorded in central Ukraine. Includes
tales, songs, and information on villiage life.
