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American cinema. Episodes 1-13 An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics |
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American variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment, 1870-1920 / Multimedia collection containing digitized versions of selected Library of Congress holdings. Represents diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, sixty-one motion pictures, and 143 photographs and twenty-nine memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress |
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Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design Offers overview to ideas espoused by the Bauhaus school; provides details about the museum and its mission. Contains brief essays on Bauhaus work in: plastic arts, architecture, photography, and art. Offers general overview of the Bauhaus Museum's holdings for persons interested in traveling to Germany to do research. Offers no searchable archive of the museum's collections |
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By the people, for the people posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 / The Library of Congress WPA Poster collection, produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, was designed to publicize health and safety programs, cultural programs, travel and tourism, educational programs, and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia |
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Chinese in California 1850-1925 / "The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California." |
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Fashion plate collection Digital images drawn from the Fashion plate collection and Journal des dames et des modes, both in the Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives division of the University of Washington Libraries. Also included is an excerpt from the book Dame fashion by Julius M. Price, 1913 |
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Federal theatre project poster slides "The Federal Theatre Project Poster Slides Collection contains 595 different 35-mm slides taken from original posters. These images are of the original designs used on posters to advertise FTP plays in many different American cities from 1935 to 1939." |
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Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India Filma Prabhaga The Films Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting maintains an archive of Indian films (8,000 documentaries, short films, and animation films) and provides facilities for motion picture production. The Web site contains information on programs and activities such as the Mumbai International Film Festival, press releases, recent annual report and information about the archives and production facilities. There are also short films and clips available via streaming video |
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FWS online video U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's multimedia portal, offering a wide variety of video and audio products |
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George & Ira Gershwin the offical web site Web site documenting the lives of songwriting brothers George and Ira Gershwin. Includes biographical information, photos, sound files, notes on selected films and musicals, and bibliographical references |
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Illustrated Shakespeare Collection "Includes heavily illustrated versions of Shakespeare published in twelve works between 1826 and 1919. Some text, such as picture captions, title pages, dialogue, and synopses of plays, but concentration is on images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century. Fully searchable, provided by University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries." |
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King County snapshots a photographic heritage of Seattle and surrounding communities "King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities." |
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Netflix Netflix, Inc. is the world's largest online movie rental service, offering subscribers access to 85,000 titles and more than 55 million DVDs. The website contains a browse feature to search for movies by genre, new releases, top 100 or critics' picks |
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New Deal stage selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 / Playscripts, production materials, photographs and administrative records selected from the output of a New Deal WPA arts project. Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress |
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Prior and Norris photograph and ephemera collection, 1886-1915 223 photographs and 14 items of ephemera (brochures, stationery, bankbook, advertising flier, postcards, salary statement, handwritten sketches, theater ticket, and union member card) documenting the careers of Pat Prior and Effie Norris as well as the history of vaudeville. Consists of three parts, the first documenting the careers of Prior and Norris themselves. The second includes photographs and publicity postcards of individual performers (many of them friends and colleagues of Prior and Norris) and vaudeville acts of the late 1800s and early 1900, including Eddie Foy. The third part consists of vaudeville stage production images, the most significant being of the Fanchon and Marco productions. Among the many photographers whose work is included in the collection is Baker Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio |
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Ringling Collection images of 19th century actors and actresses Digitized cabinet cards, postcards, and photographs of 19th century American and British actors and actresses. Site searchable by names, dates, themes, and boolean combinations. Useful also as a source of images of period clothing and hairstyles |
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Sayre database "The J. Willis Sayre collection consists of more than 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, as well as musicians and motion picture scenes, that played in Seattle between about 1900 and 1955 (some of the materials date back to the 1870s). The collector was J. Willis Sayre: drama critic, journalist, promoter. This database includes the data for all images in the database, but only includes links to digital images that are not under copyright restrictions |
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Yiddish theatre in London Yiddish Theatre in London is a permanent on-line exhibition and illustrated guide. The virtual exhibition gives a brief but historical look at Yiddish theatre in London based on the book, Yiddish Theatre in London by David Mazower. The images include posters and production photographs |
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