Media Services Survives the East Coast Earthquake

That’s right Media Services is still standing after yesterday’s east coast earthquake. The media shelves wobbled, but no DVDs fell off the shelves. Like most everyone else we were watching people’s first responses on Twitter. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @aulibmedia. Also, here’s a list of some earthquake-related videos available in Media Services. … Continue reading “Media Services Survives the East Coast Earthquake”

That’s right Media Services is still standing after yesterday’s east coast earthquake. The media shelves wobbled, but no DVDs fell off the shelves. Like most everyone else we were watching people’s first responses on Twitter. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @aulibmedia.

Also, here’s a list of some earthquake-related videos available in Media Services. There are not many in our Home Use Collection, but there are quite a few streaming videos that you can watch anywhere. Remember, the Media Services Only videos must be watched here in Media Services, unless you are AU faculty. If you are AU faculty, you can check them out and take them to class or take them home to preview them.

HOME USE

Tangshan Dadizhen = Aftershock – HU DVD 8698

MEDIA SERVICES ONLY

The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works – DVD 551

Shorts! 15 Award-winning Film Festival Shorts – DVD 5131

Zendegi Va Digar Hich = Life and Nothing More – DVD 8247

STREAMING VIDEO

Anatomy of an Earthquake – Streaming video

Army Pack Train Bringing Supplies – Streaming video

Essence of Being Japanese – Streaming video

Exploded Gas Tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld’g – Streaming video

Living with the Earth: The Loma Prieta Earthquake – Streaming video

Quake – DVD 7168 and streaming video

San Francisco Earthquake – Streaming video

Scenes in San Francisco, [no. 1] – Streaming video

Torre Mayor, Mexico City – Streaming video

Tsunami – Streaming video

Albert Brooks is on twitter…

Follow his neurotic tweets. And check out some of his films: Broadcast News(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3504) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6737) Finding Nemo(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 836) Defending Your Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6519) Lost in America(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4557) Real Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6108)

Follow his neurotic tweets. And check out some of his films:

  1. Broadcast News(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3504)
  2. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6737)
  3. Finding Nemo(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 836)
  4. Defending Your Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6519)
  5. Lost in America(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4557)
  6. Real Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6108)

AU Professr Russell Williams Returns to Oscarland

Twenty years after becoming the first African American to win two Oscars, Russell Williams, SOC/BA ’74, returned to Hollywood for the 83rd Academy Awards to commemorate that historic occasion. Williams won Oscars for his sound work on Glory and Dances with Wolves. Since 2002, he’s been an artist in residence at American University’s School of … Continue reading “AU Professr Russell Williams Returns to Oscarland”

Twenty years after becoming the first African American to win two Oscars, Russell Williams, SOC/BA ’74, returned to Hollywood for the 83rd Academy Awards to commemorate that historic occasion.

Williams won Oscars for his sound work on Glory and Dances with Wolves. Since 2002, he’s been an artist in residence at American University’s School of Communication.

“When I was a sound person, very few people wanted to hear what I had to say when I walked in the room,” Williams said, joking with WJLA-ABC 7’s Arch Campbell in an interview at the Kodak Theatre, site of the Oscarcast. “As a professor, they generally start off wanting to hear what I have to say.”

See Arch Cambell, ABC-7 and Russell Williams on the Red Carpet.

In addition to Glory and Dances with Wolves, Williams has also worked on many other films, including Field of Dreams. The District native has won two Emmy’s and is a producer as well.

Williams has been no stranger to Hollywood since joining the School of Communication, where he runs SOC’s Summer in L.A program.

Check out Williams’s tweets about his 20th-anniversary return to the Academy Award ceremony.

Listen to Russell Williams on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show.

As seen in American Today.

Media Services is on Twitter

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

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