Primary History Multimedia & Video

VCat - Video Catalog
The Penn Library Video Collection Catalog...   [more]
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Important History Multimedia & Video

Academic Video Online
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AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its succ...   [more]
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African Independence
- from Kanopy
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African Origins
Database of names of African slaves freed from slaving vessels in early 19th century. Provides audiorecordings of names as pronounced by Spanish speakers with Havana accents to assist African auditors...   [more]
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America at Work; America at Leisure: Motion pictures from 1894-1915
Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also availabl...   [more]
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American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American Jewish Committee Archives
"Filled with more than a million documents and hundreds of movies and radio shows, the New York-based American Jewish Committee Archives house an extraordinary range of resources on the past century o...   [more]
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American Memory
"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." A project of the Library of Congress....   [more]
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American Video Online Cross-Search
Searches American History in Video, The March of Time and other Alexander Street Press streaming video collections....   [more]

Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Catalog with selected videostreaming of films showing images of life in the British colonies. Covers British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum, British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, and Birckbeck Un...   [more]
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Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Ethnographic Video Online
Also Known as: Ethnographic Video Online
- from Alexander Street Press
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Supplemental URLs
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I & II: Foundational Films
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I & II: Foundational Films
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices

Feature Films: Internet Archives
This collection houses a number of classic public domain feature films and shorts, now available for viewing and downloading at the Internet Archive....   [more]
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Film Chest Vintage Cartoons
These classic animated cartoons from the 1930's and 1940's are from the Film Chest collection, a leading source of film and video programming and stock footage. All these cartoons have been transferre...   [more]
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Istituto Luce Cinecitt` @ YouTube
The Instituto Luce Cinecetta site on YouTube contains pictures of seventy years of Italian history and social life from the twenties to the nineties. ...   [more]
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March of Time, 1935-1967
Also Known as: The March of Time
- from Alexander Street Press
"With its first appearance on American motion picture screens in February 1935, The March of Time. startled journalists, filmmakers, and audiences alike with its controversial topics and unique approa...   [more]

Movie Trailers from Sabucat: Internet Archives
These movie trailers come from SabuCat Productions, which has the world's largest collection of theatrical trailers. This group of trailers on the Internet Archive is just a small sample of the over 6...   [more]
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Music Online: American Music
Also Known as: American Song (Alexander Street Press), Music Online: American Song, Music Online: American Music
- from Alexander Street Press

American Song is an eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America's past and present. The songs are by and about American Indians, miners, immig...   [more]

New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Also Known as: New World Cinema
- from Alexander Street Press
200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors, and 50+ award-winning shorts. Detailed title-level indexing allows viewers immediately to identify films with social, cultural, or ...   [more]

Old Time Radio
Collection of radio programs from the 30s-50s on streaming audio. The collection is extemsive but not comprehensive. Includes shows such as Amos and Andy, The Adventures of Superman, The Shadow, etc...   [more]
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Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921
The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out anim...   [more]
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Prelinger Archives
The Prelinger Archives includes films and shorts produced by and for hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational ...   [more]
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Public Information Films from the English Central Office of Information, 1945-current
The COI, established in 1946, produces a wide range of information campaigns designed to inform the English public on a range of issues which affect their daily lives, such as health, welfare, educati...   [more]
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Return to Goree
- from Kanopy
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Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
- from Black Studies Center
interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience and other related materials...   [more]

Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
- from Alexander Street Press
Includes the catalog of the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label as well as the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, and Paredon label...   [more]

Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970
This project "aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholar...   [more]
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The Great Depression Interviews
From the stock market crash of 1929 to the beginnings of World War II, The Great Depression tells the dramatic and diverse stories of struggle and survival during the worst economic crisis in U.S. his...   [more]
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The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commericals, 1952-2004
Presidential campaign commercials aired on television between 1952 and 2004 and reproduced on streaming video....   [more]
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
Access is by IP user domain. Users must be on campus or in a Penn residence hall.

The Visual History Archive works best on PC using Internet Explorer 6 or later as the browser. IE is ...   [more]

Related History Multimedia & Video

September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
Audio and video interviews as well as pictures and written narratives about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack....   [more]
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

Wochenschau Archiv
Short clips from German newsreels, 1895-1990. Searchable....   [more]
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