Internet Resources
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/
The National Archives Video Section
NASA History of Space Flight, News Reels, Department of the Interior
http://video.google.com/nara.html
Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans:
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
Portal to Texas History
http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas++Brazos+County%22&t=dc.coverage
Archival Research Catalog:
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/genealogy/
Library of Congress: American Memory: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Prelinger Archives (Internet Archives) http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Moving Image Archive (Internet Archives) http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Ghandi: http://www.gandhiserve.org/footage.html
Free Video and Multimedia Search Engine and Content Sites (University of
Delaware Library) http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/film/resguide/streamingweb.htm
Library of Congress: American Memory: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
Video Search Engines
The following sites are search portals that allow the user to find multimedia content
by indexing a variety of video on the World Wide Web:
AltaVista Video Search (http://www.altavista.com/video/default)
AltaVista video search offers the ability to filter by file type. Users can also limit by the
duration of the video clip, either less than or greater than one minute.
AllTheWeb Video Search (http://www.alltheweb.com)
AllTheWeb contains Video and Audio search options and has a clean interface, making it
easy to navigate. The advanced search screen allows you to limit your search by file
format as well as by download type: video streams, complete downloads, or both.
Blinkx.tv (http://www.blinkx.com)
This interesting project claims to search TV content not just by keyword, but also by
analysis of the video content, thereby looking for conceptual matches. The content
searched is relatively small compared to major search engines like Google, but it appears
to have a good selection of news content.
Digital Librarian (http://www.digital-librarian.com/audio.html)
Audio, video, and multimedia are included in this resource, which provides an index to
hundreds of free audio, sheet music, video and multimedia websites.
Excite UK - Video (http://www.excite.co.uk/search/video/)
This search engine is owned by the European branch of the Excite Network, giving it an
international flavor. It searches a small number of video files compared to the larger sites,
but one may find clips here that are not indexed by other sites.
Freesite (http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/)
This site serves as an index to multiple WAV sound files for commercials, cinema, TV,
and sound effects. It includes a link to the very popular and in high-demand site, A1 Free
Sound Effects, a fun resource with over 700 free WAV sound effects that include
everything from breaking glass to creaking doors to sirens.
Google Video (http://video.google.com/)
Google Video (currently in Beta) enables users to search a growing archive of televised
content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows. The site is
currently in its testing phase, so only a limited number of channels have been indexed.
Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and journalists offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage. The site can be translated into eight languages and
includes both video and audio clips, as well as journalistic articles.
Lycos Multimedia (http://multimedia.lycos.com/)
This is a very simple search interface. Lycos does not seem to provide any search limits.
However, Lycos does seem to search a large number of pages, based on comparison
searches.
MSN Video Search (http://video.msn.com/video)
MSN video search offers content from MSNBC, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, and
Meet the Press. The interface is a bit clunky, but worth a try to find news content.
TV Guide Video Search Engine (http://video.tvguide.com/)
This search engine focuses only on professionally produced video content, including
movie trailers, complete TV show episodes, news clips, previews and programs across all
genres and networks.
Yahoo Video Search (http://video.search.yahoo.com/)
The Yahoo video search screen is very “Google-like,” clean, and simple. The advanced
search option provides plenty of limits. It is the only video search engine listed here that
provides a limit by domain (.com, .edu, .org, .gov, etc.). When a source is chosen from
the results screen, a split screen is displayed (similar to Google’s image search) allowing
the user to go directly to the webpage on which the video was found.
Streaming Media
The following sites offer streaming media on particular subjects or from individual
television channels and represent discreet collections:
Annenberg Media Video on Demand (http://learner.org/)
Annenberg has made most of its catalog of telecourses available for free as streaming
video. Familiar series such as American Cinema, Voices & Visions, and The World of
Abnormal Psychology are among the titles produced by Annenberg.
C-SPAN (http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp)
C-SPAN content is easy to search from their video search site. There is a simple one-box
search and an advanced search screen that allows for limiting by date, as well as by
thematic category, topic, and series.
Folkstreams (http://www.folkstreams.net)
The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about
American folk or roots culture. Programs streamed from the website are presented with
background materials highlighting the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions
represented and the films.
History Channel (http://www.historychannel.com/)
The History Channel provides streaming video available via the Speeches and Video link.
Internet Movie Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/movies)
The purpose of the IMA is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, and
scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The site includes texts, audio,
moving images, software, as well as archived web pages. One of the main highlights of
the IMA is access to the Prelinger Film archive, currently acquired by the Library of
Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound division.
Library of Congress: American Memory Viewer (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/)
The 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. It is a digital record of American history and
creativity. The collection contains over 10 million items, and the archival footage dates
back to the late 1800s.
The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab or Orinthology
(http://www.birds.cornell.edu/MacaulayLibrary/#)
The Macaulay Library is a principal source of sound recordings for basic research,
education, conservation, habitat assessment, media, and commercial projects. The Library
archives and preserves an exhaustive sampling of the behaviors of each animal species
using digital video (including a growing number of high definition assets) and audio
recordings, and presents a portion of their holdings online.
Movietone Nostalgia (http://www.movietone-portraits.com/)
British Movietonews, a London based newsreel archive and television documentary
production company, has launched this free website for the general public. The site
features video portraits of famous people (show business personalities as well as many
politicians, artists and scientists). Other clips pertain to fashion, history, popular culture,
travel, etc.
National Archives and Records Administration / Google Partnership
(http://video.google.com/nara.html)
This recently launched pilot program makes holdings of the National Archives available
for free online. This non-exclusive agreement will enable researchers and the general
public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films
from the National Archives via Google Video.
National Endowment for the Humanities Radio Project
(http://www.neh.gov/projects/radioprojects.html)
This resource uses scholarship, interviews, archival recordings, music and narration to
explore a range of humanities topics. It provides access to audio files and transcripts.
Online News Hour (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/index.html)
This site allows users to search the News Hour shows back to the year 2000. It is easy to
use and full of great content.
Pathe Films Digital Archive (http://www.britishpathe.com)
Free registration allows researchers to download clips and newsreel footage from the
entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive for educational use. The Archive covers
news, sports, social history, and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
PBS Frontline (http://www.pbs.org/frontline)
Along with the extensive web pages of additional information that exist for many of
Frontline’s award-winning news programs, many of the programs themselves are now
freely available as streaming video via those webpages.
Radio Days (http://www.otr.com/index.shtml)
This is a unique web resource for users interested in capturing early sound bites from
radio shows in the 1940s through the 1960s. It is dubbed as a source “for the history of
nostalgic and old time radio series and news.”
Steven Speilberg Film and Video Archive at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
(http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php)
This catalog provides access to the USHMM’s collection of historical films pertaining to
the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II. Over 1000 hours of footage can be
searched by subject, title, source, keyword, location, event date, and genre. Hundreds of
video clips stream over the Internet, with more to be added on an ongoing basis.
Media Web Publishing
The following sites provide a portal for those who wish to publish their own media on the
World Wide Web:
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/video/)
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization built upon the “all rights reserved”
concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
The above link helps users publish their videos online while allowing them to specify
exactly what can and can’t be done with their work. This site also has a search function,
allowing users to find footage for use in their productions.
MetaCafe (http://www.metacafe.com/)
A video and media sharing community where users upload and share thousands of new
videos every day. Metacafe hosts a community of reviewers to promote favorite clips.
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/)
This video sharing service allows people to upload, watch, search, and comment on
original videos.
Additional University of Delaware Library Web Guides and Subscription
Databases
Digital Image Collections (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/eresources/digitalimages/)
Theatre In Video (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/ativ.html)
Web Search Tools: Image Searches
(http://www2.lib.udel.edu/eresources/searchtools/image
Public Domain Websites
These sites contain material that is generally free to use, uncopyrighted, whose copyright has
expired, or is uncopyrightable. The last includes resources from US government agencies,
educational organizations and companies that provide materials for students and teachers.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (University of Houston):
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/tools.htm#Public_Domain
American Memory from 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." Although the Library of Congress provides some copyright information
about the items in this collection, "it is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy
copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the
Library's collections."
Digital History
“The materials included in the Digital History website are original works of authorship,
government records, works for which copyright permission has expired, works reprinted with
permission, or works that we believe are within the fair use protection of the copyright laws.”
Library of Congress Learning Page
“The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach
history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources,
activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom
curriculum.”
NASA/Hubble Telescope
This site contains teaching resources and information for educators. It also contains many image
and video galleries.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Photo Library
This site holds Albums and Catalogs containing over 20,000 images! Most NOAA photos and
slides are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted.
The NYPL Picture Collection Online
"The digital collection of images presented here is taken from the in-print collection of images
that New York Public Library has been collecting since 1915.”
Picture History
“Picture History is an on-line archive of images and film footage illuminating more than 200 years
of American history.”
Wikipedia
There are many photos and graphics at Wikipedia are in the public domain.
FreeFoto.com
“FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use on
the Internet.”
Pics4Learning.com
“Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning
collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and
amateur photographers.”
Sounds
American Rhetoric (famous speeches)
“The site makes material available in an effort to advance understanding of political, social, and
religious issues as they relate to the study and practice of rhetoric and public address deemed
relevant to the public interest and the promotion of civic discourse.”
Find Sounds
A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples
Free Kids Music.com
A collection of quality children's music. These are complete songs, not edited versions. All music
downloads on this site are free.
FreePlay Music
“The Freeplay Music Library, is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production
music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for free download either online or can be
purchased by cd.”
Singingfish
Singingfish searches only for legally distributed songs and videos, and as a result many of the
clips available are 30-second samples or offerings sanctioned by the artist.
Video Kits
Kitzu
Digital Kits for education provided by the Orange County, California Department of Education.
Royalty-Free Music Options
A Few Popular Royalty-Free Music Websites
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Magnatune
https://magnatune.com/today/
The Magnatune website states the requirements for using music downloaded from their
website in a non-commercial project, including student projects. They state:
Non-Commercial Use
No paid license is required for people creating new works for non-commercial use.
You must abide by the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike use restrictions placed by
the license.
Common examples of uses we consider non-commercial are:
---anything a student makes while attending school (i.e. homework)
If you meet these requirements, you have two options:
1. Free copy of the best-quality audio: You can email Teresa telling her about your
project, and what album you want to use. She'll happily send you free download
instructions as if you'd paid for the album. That way, you can use the best quality audio
files in your project. In your email to us, please tell us if you have a web page about you
or your project!
2. Download 128k mp3s with speaking on them: You can also download the MP3s for
this album. Each mp3 will end with spoken text that says "you just heard..." If you'd rather
not have the speaking at the end of the mp3s (and we assume you would) please see
option number one above.
As long as students adhere to the “creative license” that each artist specifies, they may
confidently use the music they download from this website. It is refreshing to see fair use
directions spelled out so succinctly, rather than having some vague assumption about
what constitutes as fair use.
Worth noting is the friendly, supportive and generous manner in which they offer quality
music for students to use (see yellow highlighted portion above). They are offering to
send students best quality audio files “as if you paid for the album.
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Jamendo
http://www.jamendo.com/en/ (downloads are handled through a bit torrent client)
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BitTorrent Information from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
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Opera Web Browser with built-in BitTorrent
http://www.opera.com/
The Jamendo website indicates that: “you can copy, distribute, advertise, and perform this album
as long as you: 1) give credit to the artist, 2) don’t use this album for commercial purposes, and 3)
don’t alter, transform, or build upon this album.”
Other Websites to explore:
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JamGlue
http://www.jamglue.com/
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ccMixter
http://ccmixter.org/
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The Freesound Project
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
PodsafeAudio
http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
Recording and Editing Audio
Many digital stories include the use of music and narrated audio and there are lots of options for
recording and adding sound. Some helpful information for PC users may be found by visiting the
following links:
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All about Audio
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/microphones/microphones.htm
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Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide (from The Vermont Folklife Center)
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audioequip.htm