Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: Theater: Video/Visual Resources

Video

Theater in Video
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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. Users can search or browse by subjects such as actors, directors, genres, and playwrights, and can create individual playlists for further viewing. Each entry contains important bibliographic information.
Kanopy
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Kanopy is a streaming video service. Faculty may request film activation for use with classes through the form on the Kanopy website; requests are processed weekly on Fridays. Activated films are available for one year and may be accessed by all members of our community.

Visual Resources

ARTstor
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ARTstor features works in the areas of art, architecture, religion, anthropology, literature, and world history, and contains more than one million images. The site allows users to search and browse within multiple categories. Along with full color and black and white images with zoom capability, users can find information on date, repository, and material(s), and can save search results in folders. The database also provides detailed subject guides that include information on featured collections and commonly used search terms.

Flickr: The Commons
More and more cultural heritage institutions are contributing digital images to Flickr. The Smithsonian, Brooklyn Museum, the Getty, and Library of Congress are just a few of them. Some images may be subject to copyright restrictions.
Google Images
Over 10 billion images are available. The quality of the images varies and may be subject to copyright restrictions.
Library of Congress American Memory
American Memory is the gateway to 9 million digitized items organized into 100 thematic collections from the Library of Congress's vast resources that document U.S. history and culture. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
This online catalog features nearly one million digital images taken from the Library's 50+ collections of prints and photographs. Included are images from the National Child Labor Committee Collection, the U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, the Library of Congress Baseball Card Collection, and the Collection of Architecture, Design and Engineering Drawings.
Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
A rare collection of original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States, including costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric.
Museum of the City of New York
Images documenting NYC theater productions, including over 30,000 photographs from over 5,000 Broadway productions.

New York Public Library Digital Collections
Provides access to over 650,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.