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Theatre in Video
part of Critical Video Editions
Issues with video for academia…
• Can’t find what you’re looking for, no random access
• A lot of content is simply unavailable
• Learning and research are slow – can’t speed-read or
speed-browse
• Primary sources (objective) and secondary content
(subjective) are mixed together
• Content isn’t citable below the package level
• Content isn’t linkable below the package level
• Low quality, grainy, amateur clips
• Entertainment centric
• Licenses are overly restrictive
Let’s license great content
Let’s fix it so video can take its role in the
academy
Integrate text and video
Citable in papers and journals
Let’s free video from the format constraints
Embed video on
• your library’s Web page
• student pages
• course pages
Let’s free video from the time problem
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60 minutes of the evening news = 30 doubled spaced
pages and takes
• 3-4 minutes for a scanned reading
• 15-20 minutes for an in-depth reading
• Or 1 hour to know what’s on the 1-hour video
American History in Video
We applied our Semantic Indexing
We made the subtitles searchable
Let’s allow video to be cited down to the
second. Give scholars the tools for
creating and sharing.
Playlists
Theatre in Video
• Includes 500 hours of
performances and documentaries.
• There are 350 complete, unique
productions.
• From the1930s to contemporary
productions, both Broadway and
off-Broadway, are presented.
• The works link directly to the
North American Theatre Online
reference database.
From the Greeks to today
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Sean O’Casey
Jean Cocteau
Derek Walcott
John Millington Synge
Voltaire
August Strindberg
Henrik Ibsen
Moliere
D.H. Lawrence
Elie Wiesel
Aeschylus
Anton Chekov
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Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Sophocles
Alfred Jarry
Federico Garcia Lorca
John Osborne
Harold Pinter
Racine
George Bernard Shaw
Heinrich von Kleist
Peter Handke
Terrence McNally
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Neil Simon
Ntozake Shange
Tennessee Williams
Wendy Wasserstein
Lanford Wilson
George S. Kaufman
Robert Sherwood
Sidney Kingsley
Maxwell Anderson
A.R. Gurney
Richard Sheridan
And many others
Distinguished performance
companies
• Group Theater
• Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble
• BBC Shakespeare series (optional addon subscription)
• Actors Studio
• Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory
Theatre
• Joe Chaikin’s Open Theater
• Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare
Festival
• The Wooster Group
• And many others
Major actors
• Dustin Hoffman
• Meryl Streep
• Faye Dunaway
• William Hurt
• Robert Redford
• Sissy Spacek
• John Gielgud
• Derek Jacobi
• Helen Mirren
• Anthony Hopkins
• Ben Kingsley
• Juliet Stevenson
• Zoe Wanamaker
• Kevin Kline
• Prunella Scales
• A long list of others
Instruction and research tools
• Scene-level semantic indexing;
• Ability to search by people, titles, companies, and
other fields;
• URLs at the per-second level;
• Ability to bookmark specific scenes, monologues,
or staging examples;
• Tools for including the online links in papers and
course reserves.
400 hours of performance
• Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (stars Lee J. Cobb
and George Segal)
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill
• The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams (stars
Katherine Hepburn)
• The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
• The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen
• Olivier’s Hamlet and King Lear, by William Shakespeare
• Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov
• Party Time, by Harold Pinter
• Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello
• Incident at Vichy, by Arthur Miller
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•Pantomime
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• The School for Scandal, by Richard Sheridan
100 hours of documentaries
Examples:
• Chaos and Order: Making American Theater
• Performing Antony and Cleopatra: Capturing the Contrasts
• The Negro Ensemble Company
• August Wilson: Writing and the Blues
• The Federal Theater, Project 891 and the Mercury Theater
• Ben Jonson
• Into the Post-War Era
• Playwrights workshop: Writing for the Stage
• Playing Shakespeare
• See August Wilson talk of his grand design to write a play
reflecting each decade of the 20th century – then read the
plays!
• Examine the ship production design in Pirates of Penzance.
• How did the RSC stage exit pursued by a bear?
• Analyze Lee J. Cobb’s handling of transitions of time and
memory in Death of a Salesman.
Our music portfolio includes…
Classical
Music
World
Music
African
American
American
History
300,000+ tracks
Our music portfolio includes…
Classical
Music
World
Music
African
American
American
History
300,000+ tracks
90,000+ pages of
reference
Our music portfolio includes…
Classical
Music
World
Music
African
American
American
History
300,000+ tracks
90,000+ pages of
reference
400,000+ pages of
scores & song sheets
Our music portfolio includes…
Classical
Music
World
Music
African
American
American
History
300,000+ tracks
90,000+ pages of
reference
400,000+ pages of
scores & song sheets
1,000+ hours of video
Available individually or within two discounted
packages
Music Online: Reference
Music Online: Listening
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Classical Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound
African American Music
American Song
Contemporary World Music
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African American Music Reference
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Scores Library
Optional add-ons
• Opera in Video
• Dance in Video
The new Music Online platform: A single
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Classical Music Library
African American Song
American Song
Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Scores Library
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
African American Music Reference
Opera in Video
Dance in Video
Editorially selected Web resources
Archival content
Additional sources as they become available
Music Online:
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Example: How does court music differ
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One search brings
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Classical Scores Library
• Growing to 400,000 pages of the
most important classical music
scores.
• Study and analyze more than 16,000
musical works.
• Includes manuscripts, previously
unpublished material, and archival
content.
• Has a mix of in- and out-of-copyright
scores—many of the out-of-copyright
items are not likely to be on your
shelves.
Classical Scores Library
• Includes multiple types of scores across various
composers, genres, and time periods.
• Covers orchestral, chamber, opera (complete scores),
vocal, solo instrumental, and choral music.
• All opera, vocal, and choral texts are rekeyed to allow
for deep searching and textual analysis.
• Full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and
piano reductions are included.
Classical Scores Library
• Many items link to audio tracks in Classical Music Library.
• The database also works together with Classical Music
Reference Library.
• Subscribers to all three databases can listen to a
recording online, follow along with the full score, and see
the reference materials.
• All will be connected through a single click early in 2008
(through the new Music Online unified interface).
Classical Scores Library
A single search in Music Online
• I want to listen to early performances by Louis Armstrong.
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A single search in Music Online
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segno?
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