World Cup Fever is well underway and we’ve got some soccer films that should be of interest. They’re not all Home Use, but they’re all worth seeing. Any non-Home Use film can be comfortably viewed at one of our viewing stations here in Media Services. Check them out! Bend It Like Beckham – DVD 672Cup […]
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Sony develops a rollable OLED screen…
Portable and rollable? Pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvTLg4i2_U&feature=player_embedded
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 reading10 Google Video (FREE, FREE, FREE) Documentaries You Have To Watch
Check them out: http://www.nichegeek.com/10_google_documentaries_you_have_to_watch
Continue readingSecond Annual Eco-Comedy Video Competition – Finalists!!
The Second Annual Eco-Comedy Video Competition received 75 entries this year from all over the world. All submissions are now available for you to enjoy here, under the video responses heading, and the finalists have been included in this post. You can also find them on the Center’s website at www.environmentalfilm.org. Jordan Ballantine and Blathnaid […]
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 […]
Continue readingOscars Betting Odds
Easyodds.com provides a table of odds being offered by 20 British bookmakers on all of the major Academy Awards categories. I don’t want to give anything away but A Serious Man has its work cut out for itself. link
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