Did you know Media Services is on Twitter? Why? Well we’re not quite sure either but if David Lynch and Snoop Dogg are doing it, we ought to be too. http://twitter.com/AUMediaServices
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Dennis Hopper, you will be missed.
From Giant to Easy Rider to Blue Velvet, Dennis Hopper was the consummate character who usually stole the show. His intensity was used to evoke fear, humor, and many times, obsession and insanity. He was only occasionally cast as something less than a lunatic. If you aren’t fully aware of the Hopper oeuvre, add these […]
Continue readingUCLA Preserved Silent Animation online
This new site is a small showcase for the UCLA Film and Television Archive. There are just eleven films so far but they promise more so bookmark it. Videos can be streamed or downloaded. link
Continue readingWanna play a DVD from another country on your laptop?
Generally it can be done but it probably should only be considered as a last resort if an all-region player is unavailable. Briefly, most DVDs are coded to play in specific regions. The format used in the US, US territories, and Canada is Region 1. The format used in Europe, the Middle East, and South […]
Continue readingHemispheric Institute Digital Video Library: An archive of performing arts on video from across the Americas
From their website: The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a collaboration between New York University Libraries and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures and political landscapes of the Americas. The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library […]
Continue readingDigital Media Studio workrooms now available for overnight use!
The DMS workstations can now be reserved for overnight use the nights the library is open 24 hours (Monday 12:00AM through Friday 8:00AM). Access is by reservation only and users must have a signed Borrower’s Agreement for Library Technology form on file at Media Services. Once on file, users can reserve an evening (midnight – […]
Continue readingSnag Films is loaded with great documentaries for instant viewing
At present there are a reported 850 films available. The list includes work from ITVS, PBS, National Geographic, and several notable independents including Icarus Films and Kartemquin Films. Titles that might be familiar include: The American Ruling Class, Biggie and Tupac, Cosmos, Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins, The Life and Times of Allen […]
Continue readingWatch Logorama now – before it disappears
The 2010 Academy Award winner for animated short is kind of a mix of Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, and Dark Knight all animated with corporate logos. Brilliant but stay away if you would take offense at Big Boy, Ronald McDonald, and the Michelin Man cussing and shooting things up. Logorama at Vimeo
Continue readingTrashy Travels: Baltimore: John Waters’s Movie Locations and other Divine Dirt
To know Baltimore is to love Baltimore. Baltimore filmmaker loves his city and continues to situate his movies there. If you’re a fan of the director of Hairspray, Polyester, and Pink Flamingos and have a car you might want to make a pilgrimage. Trashy Travels link
Continue readingAdViews: A digital archive of vintage television commercials
Quoted from the AdViews site:“AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising […]
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