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Streaming Video Resources

 

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Debora Cheney
Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, and, Head, Library Services to the World Campus/Penn State Online
814-863-1345

or Your Campus Librarian

Streaming Videos

Individual Titles (Penn State)

Databases & Subject Based Collections

  • American History in Video (North America) 
    • Newsreel coverage 1920-1967
    • Over 2,000 hours (5,000 items) of archival and documentary film and newsreel of American historical interest, with searchable transcripts and playlist capabilities
    • Contains archival and recent content from The History Channel, PBS, California Newsreel, Universal, and numerous other documentary and educational media sources
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume 1
    • For the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling
    • Over 400 hours and more than 330 videos of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions
    • Searchable transcripts, Teaching and Discussion Guides
  • Dance in Video
    • 500 hours of 20th century productions and documentaries
    • Browse by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, or role
    • Contains ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational, and modern concert dance
    • Includes works of top ballet companies, up-and-coming dance troupes, choreographers,  videos on dance training
  • Education in Video (United States)
    • Developed specifically for training and developing teachers
    • Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms
  • March of Time
    • Time, Inc.'s newsreel series (1935 to 1967)
    • Recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and later, television
    • Contains historic footage dating back to 1913
  • Nursing Education in Video
    • Comprehensive collection created for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers
    • Searchable transcripts synchronized to full-length video
    • Updated annually to reflect changes in accepted practices and principles
  • Opera in Video
    • 500 hours of staged productions, interviews, and documentaries
    • Cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century
    • Synchronized and searchable opera subtitles, video clip-making tools, annotated playlist tools
  • Theatre in Video
    • Over 500 hours of actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed live
    • Covers 1930s through the 20th century, providing a wide range of theatre history
  • World History in Video (North America)
    • Selected documentaries from PBS, the BBC, and other educational filmakers
    • Covers human history from the earliest civilizations to late twentieth century
    • Transcripts searchable and synchronized to video
    • Create video playlists to be annotated, copied, and shared

 

Multi-Subject Resources

  • Filmakers Library Online
    • Over 940 award-winning documentaries across all disciplines
    • Create clips, playlists, and access transcripts
  • NBC Learn
    • 1920's through current events
    • Over 12,000 stories from NBC News archives
  • Paley Center for Media iCollection
    • 18,000+ programs in streaming video, hundreds added each month
    • Service for educational institutions and libraries
  • Vanderbilt TV News Archive
    • Recordings, preservation of and access to network news broadcasts
    • August 5, 1968 to present
  • European NAvigator (ENA)
    • Focus on formation of a united Europe from 1945 to present
    • 15,000+ photos, audio, video, press articles, cartoons, tables, maps and diagrams
    • Multilingual, multisource and multimedia knowledge base
  • ScienceCinema
    • Advanced search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files
    • Over 1,700 speech-indexed videos and links to hundreds more, with ongoing updated and additions
    • Videos produced by U.S. Department of Energy and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

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