From www.dtv2009.gov: At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. The US Congress was sold on the digital broadcasting transition based on the providers’ promises of a clearer picture, more programming options, and that it will free up […]
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Cool website of streaming documentaries: Folkstreams.net
This wonderful site currently has just over 100 documentaries on American roots cultures. It’s a site loaded with classics including films by Les Blank, Tom Davenport, and Alan Lomax. It’s indexed by film, filmmaker, region, subject, and featured individual. If you’re interested in Dewey Balfa, for instance, you can quickly discover he’s included in Les […]
Continue readingCenter for Social Media Screening, Wed. Feb. 6, 2008, 5:30pm – Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Wechsler Theater, 3rd Fl. Mary Graydon Center, American University It’s Free! HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This groundbreaking documentary is a “loving critique” of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges […]
Continue readingGreen on the Screen Tomorrow, Thurs. 12:30-1:30pm – Global Banquet: Politics of Food
Global banquet: Politics of food. 2001. 50 min. This film exposes globalization’s damaging effect on our food system in terms that are understandable to the non-specialist. It debunks several underlying myths about global hunger. Green on the Screen videos will be shown every Thursday @ 12:30pm throughout the Spring Semester in the Media Services Classroom […]
Continue readingOrigins of American Animation @ Library of Congress American Memory site
This is pretty cool. Streaming video of 21 shorts from 1900 to 1921. From a variety of producers including Edison, Gaumont, Essanay, and International Film Service. link
Continue readingNew York Public Library: Webcasts
Webcasts of many of the public events the NYPL has hosted in the past few years. Speakers include Umberto Eco, Werner Herzog, Ken Burns, Robert and Aline Crumb, Jan Morris, Bill Moyers, and E. O. Wilson, among many others. link
Continue readingBritish Film Institute: Interviews
The British Film Institute regularly hosts public forums and an interview series at the National Film Theatre in London. Here they offer transcripts from many of their choicest interviews. They include conversationswith people such as Robert Altman, Costa-Gavras, Rickey Gervais and Stephen Merchant, andSatyajit Ray. link
Continue readingMust-See Video: Winter Soldier
This film, long unavailable, was restored and released on DVD a couple years ago by New Yorker Films. It’s a documentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation that occurred in Detroit 1971. It was comprised of the testimony of about thirty Vietnam Veterans against the War on atrocities that were being committed daily and systematically by […]
Continue readingFilm Movement: a selection of recent international films
Film Movement is an ongoing series of films that have been selected by a panel of film festival curators to expose the work of important emerging international filmmakers. Three of these films will be screened here at American University over the next few weeks. Admission is free and the screenings are open to the public. […]
Continue readingEdifying and odd streaming video from UC-Berkeley
Stephen Hawking lectures (various years) Malcolm X interview at UCB, 1963 Voices of Black Panther Women Symposium (date unknown) Richard Eakins, biology professor who used to dress up in period costume and act the part of famousscientists (circa 1970s) Lots of other nifty streamed audio and video linked from the same page.
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