Film and Media Arts: Images and Streaming Media
Other Image- & Media-related Guides
Image Databases
Marriott Library subscribes to a large set of Image Databases that have significant photographic and illustration content. Below are a few highlights:
- The Vogue ArchiveComprises every issue--more than 400,000 pages--in high resolution color from 1892 to today. Search by designer, photographer, model, author, advertiser, label/brand, article of clothing, fabric/material, color, and more!
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic NovelsThe first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform.
- JSTOR Images (formerly ARTstor)Provides curated collections of more than 2 million images of art, architecture, artifacts, and primary documents, including costume and set renderings, playbills, production photos, etc. Time periods range from ancient to modern and geographic locations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
- Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new windowAnatomy.TV is a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. Controls allow users to zoom, rotate and peel away layers from the models. MRIs, X-rays, live-action movies and animations are also included to supplement the computer-generated models.
Video Databases
If you are considering a public screening of a film, be sure to check out Marriott Library's Public Performance Permission guide, first.
- DocuseekDocuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film. Distributors include: Bullfrog, Clarity, Collective Eye, dGenerate, Distrib, Fanlight Collection, Film Movement, First Hand, First Run, Good Docs, Icarus, Kartemquin, KimStim, MediaStorm, National Film Board of Canada, ScorpionTV, Terra Nova, Viewpoint, and Women Make Movies.
- Digitalia This link opens in a new windowA diverse selection of movies and documentaries available to stream from around the world. Foreign language films in Bosnian, Russian, German, Spanish, French and Italian to name a few.
- Platino EducaOnline streaming platform with hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American films.
- Independent World Cinema This link opens in a new windowThis collection includes 426 independently produced films, from the early 20th century to 2016, ranging in length from 2 minutes to 4+ hours! Distributors include ArtMattan, Film Movement, Milestone Films, Pragda, Oscilloscope, and Zeitgeist. These films support teaching and learning in film studies, cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, theatre, African-American studies, and more. Showing films from this collection outside of the classroom is allowed, often called Public Performance Rights. Admission fees are not allowed.
- Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life This link opens in a new windowShowcasing the British Film Institute’s Victorian Film Collection and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, Victorians on Film provides a glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators.
- Socialism on Film This link opens in a new windowThis collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
- SwankThis database provides streaming access to feature and documentary films from Hollywood studios. Films are specifically selected to support curricular needs.
- KanopyMarriott Library purchases temporary access to feature films, documentaries, and independent works to support specific courses and research. All these films are available for the UofU community to watch and enjoy! Some are even available for public screenings; look for the "PPR" icon on each film's webpage.
- Films On DemandStreaming video of historically significant performing arts productions, news programs, TV series, and documentaries. Featured producers include BBC, PBS, MVD Entertainment, Films for the Humanities, and Royal Opera House.
- Alexander Street Video This link opens in a new windowThis database provides cross-searchable access to all of the video databases that the Marriott Library subscribes to through Alexander Street Press. Content and coverage of this database will change as the databases it contains are updated, removed, or added to. More details about the collections that can be searched through this listing are provided on this database's search page.
- American History in VideoProvides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,248 titles, equaling approximately 1,031 hours.
- Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online provides access to a collection of resources for the study of human culture and behavior featuring (at completion) over 1,000 films for more than 750 hours of video. The collection covers many regions of the world and features the work of a variety of influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
- Theatre in VideoStreaming performances of classic and contemporary plays, documentaries, and interviews from around the world. "The Legacy Project" features young playwrights, composers, and lyricists interviewing establish ones. "Play It Safe" is required viewing for technical theater students.
- Dance in VideoFeatures streaming videos of 20th century dance performances and documentaries about choreographers and dance training. Includes dance styles ranging from ballet and tap, to jazz and contemporary, to experimental and improvisational dance. Patrons can create personal playlists to highlight specific performance elements or movements, and link to clips created by others.
Media On the Web
- Rhizome's ArtBaseAn online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works. Encompassing a vast range of projects from artists all over the world, the ArtBase provides an online home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends.