http://www.roadode.com/classicindex.shtml
The Michael Jackson Pepsi ad, the Farrah Fawcett Ultrabrite ad, so many of the old cigarette commercials, the Mr. Clean ads, and many more of the old classic television ads may viewed on this site via RealPlayer or MediaPlayerIE or MediaPlayerFirefox.
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-108.html
“Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the [Library of Congress] Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with selecting 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and are at least 10 years old. The selections for 2008 bring the total number of recordings in the registry to 275.”–From the website. The latest 25 recordings, selected for 2008, are found at this link. The Full National Recording Registry of recordings is found here.
http://globalmusicarchive.org/
According to the site, “[t]he Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.” Currently, only East African music is available, but you can read about plans for expanding the database. Users can search by region, language, instrument, etc. From Vanderbilt University.
This is a database of all types of awards and honors, from entertainment and business to science and beauty. Use the categories on the left to browse or search by keyword. Also includes a schedule of upcoming award events.
Thanks to Christina Barnes (Sciences) for passing this along!
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is now offering free movies, shorts, and new & classic TV on their site. So if you’ve been dying to watch “The Love Boat,” “24″ or Some Like it Hot, here’s your chance!
Soungle is an easy way to search for free sound effects. Just be aware that you might want to play with your keywords–A search for ‘airplane’ only has 1 result, whereas a search for ‘plane’ has 10 and ‘jet’ has another 10. All audio clips are easily downloadable.
http://joseph.bufvc.ac.uk/Shakespeare/index.php
The British Universities Film & Video Council and Society for Screen-Based Learning offers this database as an “international record of Shakespeare on film, television, and radio, from 1898 to the present day.”
This is a fun, informative site that is “the must-have website for Midsouth moms and dads.”
http://www.orpheum-memphis.com/index.cfm?section=comattrac&page=movie
I admit I’m a movie buff, and sometimes nothing will beat seeing a classic on the big screen. I especially love watching movies at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Memphis because of the atmosphere. One new thing on the Orpheum’s summer, 2008 agenda is they are playing “chick flicks” on Thursday nights. Hopefully for all you other film buffs, this will be a fun site.
“See you at the movies!”
http://www.dramatispersonaearchive.org/
This site was designed ”to be useful to researchers of theater, dance, music, French culture, and early modern history” and “serves also as a portal into the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library’s Digital Collections, which includes scanned rare books, maps, newspapers, and journals in searchable format.”–From Website.
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
A compilation of a growing number of books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. You can view by Movie Title, Movie Release Year, Book Title and Book Author.
[Originally posted July 26, 2006. Might be helpful as we gear up for summer!]
I wish I’d come across this sooner in the summer, but hopefully it will still be useful in years to come!
“Allen’s Guide provides information about many different kids & teen summer camps and travel programs.” The site offers links to the websites of a variety of camps and programs, from weight loss camps to academic and arts programs and programs abroad.
With over 15,000 profiles of jazz musicians and with news, articles, reviews, photos, and more, this is one of the leading resources on jazz on the web.
Thanks to Nita Dunn (Cordova) for passing along this site!
From the site: “A large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music reference, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.” So if you’re looking for sea shanties, nursery songs or just classic American folk music, this is the place to go.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
This wiki, from the International Music Score Library Project, offers downloadable PDFs of music scores for free. Currently over 2800 works are included. Users can browse by composer, composer’s time period or genre, or search by keyword. Users can also access the site in seven other languages.
