AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS
Table of Contents:
Purchasing
Audiovisual Materials
Educational
Film and Video Materials
Film
and video sources specializing in DVD's
Renting
Educational Films and Videos
Closed
Captioned Videos
Television
Programming
Information
about Feature Films
Renting
Feature Films
WWW
pages of video rental and sales companies
Purchasing Audiovisual Materials
Faculty may recommend audiovisual materials to purchase for the various non-print collections. The Audiovisual Center has a budget for this purpose. Several resources are available to help locate appropriate materials.
Educational Film and Video Materials
The following educational film and video distributors have created WWW pages listing their materials.
ABC News: http://www.abcnewsstore.com/
America's Defense Monitor:http://www.cdi.org/adm/
Bullfrog Films: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/
BuyIndies.com: http://www.buyindies.com/edu
California Newsreel: http://www.newsreel.org/
Cambridge Documentary Films: http://www1.shore.net/~cdf/
Center for Media Literacy: http://www.medialit.org/catalog.html
Cinema Guild: http://www.cinemaguild.com/
Coronet/MTI is now part of the Phoenix Learning
Group; 2349 Chafee Dr; St
Louis, MO 63146; ph: 800-221-1274.
CRM
Films: http://www.crmfilms.com/
Davenport Films: http://www.oz.net/~davfilms/
Documentary Educational Resources: http://der.org/docued/
Fanlight Productions: http://www.fanlight.com/
Films for Humanities and Sciences: http://www.films.com/
First Run/Icarus Films: http://www.echonyc.com/~frif/
Hartley Film Foundation, 59 Cat Rock Road, Cos Cob,
CT 06807 Phone: 1-800-937-1819
Fax: 203-869-1905
J. E. Hill Multimedia
Company: http://www.totalmarketing.com/fourthgn
MacArthur Foundation Library Video Project - Health
Collection: http://www.sebridge.org/~macart/
Media Education Foundation: http://www.mediaed.org/enter.html
Milestone Films: http://www.milestonefilms.com/
National Audiovisual Center: a
href="http://www.ntis.gov/nac/index.html">http://www.ntis.gov/nac/index.html
National Latino Communications Center: http://www.nlcc.com/
National Film Board of Canada: http://www.nfb.ca/E/
Nimco, Inc.: http://www.nimcoinc.com/index.html
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/
PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service: http://www.pbs.org/als
Penn State Audiovisual Media Services: http://www.cde.psu.edu/MediaSales/
Phoenix Learning Group; 2349 Chafee Dr; St.
Louis, MO 63146; ph: 800-221-1274.
Psychological & Educational Films, 3334 E. Coast Hwy. #252, Corona del Mar,
CA 92625
phone: 714-640-4029, fax: 714-640-5029
Pyramid
Media: http://www.pyramidmedia.com/
RMI Media Productions, Inc.: http://www.rmimedia.com/
Roland Collection: http://www.roland-collection.com/
University of California, Center for Media and
Independent Learning: http://www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media/
USA Test: http://www.usatest.com/
In addition, the Audiovisual Center collects and organizes catalogs from many film and video distributors. You may look through these catalogs or contact _Ross Worley_ or _Mike Larson_ for assistance.
The Video Source Book is a print index that lists educational films and videos available for purchase. It is available in the Audiovisual Center.
Contact _Ross Worley_ or _Mike Larson_ for more information on purchasing
audiovisual materials.
Film and video sources specializing in DVD's
Ken Crane’s DVD’s/LaserDisc’s: http://www.kencranes.com/
DVD Express: http://www.dvdexpress.com/consumer/default.asp
Renting Educational Films and Videos
There is no provision for interlibrary library loan of films and
videos. On the other hand, there are a tremendous number of films and
videos available from university rental libraries, many times for a quite
reasonable price. Contact _Mike Larson_ or _Ross Worley_ for help in
processing rental orders for films or videos. Please be aware, however,
that your department will be responsible for the rental cost and return
shipping. The following university film and video rental centers have made
information about their collections available on line.
Indiana University - Media Resources: http://www.indiana.edu/~mediares/catalog.htm
Iowa State University - Media Resources Center: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mrc/medialib/media_lib.html
Oklahoma State University - Audio Visual Center: http://www.av.okstate.edu/Information/default.htm
Penn State University - Audiovisual Media Services:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/
University of California, Center for Media and
Independent Learning: http://www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media/
University of Colorado at Boulder - Academic Media
Services: http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/videolibrary.html
University of Minnesota - U Film Society: http://www.ufilm.org/
University of Missouri - Academic Support
Center: http://www.missouri.edu/~ascwww/medialib.html
University of North Texas - Media Library: http://www.library.unt.edu/info/media/
University of Washington - Classroom Support
Services: http://www.washington.edu/classroom/emc/
Utah State University - Audio Visual Services: http://www.usu.edu/~libavs/av.htm
In addition to these on-line sources, the Educational Film and Video Locator
is a paper index of films and videos available to rent from many of the
university rental libraries. It is showing it's age now, but is still
useful on occasion. It is available in the Audiovisual Center.
There are several captioned educational videos/films distributors:
Captioned Films/Videos
Modern Talking Pictures Services, Inc.
5000
Park Street North
St. Petersburg, FL 33700
800-237-6213
Paragon Media
2115 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
800-874-5547
Have you ever had the experience of watching a great program on television, but then didn't have a piece of paper and pencil handy when the phone number for the video or transcript was flashed on the screen? Here's a great resource that lists many of those companies and how to contact them:
I Saw it on TV - http://www.library.nwu.edu/media/resources/tvguide.html
Daily television listings are available from Zap2it TV - http://tv.zap2it.com/ ("Your source for everything television")
You may want to go directly to the television source. Here are some WWW pages of television programming companies. These channels are available on a number of formats. They may be provided by your local cable television service or they may be available on a C-band or Ku-band satellite, some encripted, some not, or they may be available on the small dish digital television services, such as Prime Star or Echostar.
Alliance for Community Media (formerly National Federation of Local Cable Programmers) has the Hometown Video collection that I believe folks send to each other around the country.... student works, college news programs, music programs, sports, etc.... http://www.alliancecm.org/index.htm
Arts and Entertainment: http://www.aetv.com/
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/
CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/
CNN: http://www.aetv.org/
Comedy Central:
http://www.comcentral.com/
C-span: http://www.c-span.org/
Deep Dish TV: http://www.igc.apc.org/deepdish/
Deutche Welle: http://www.dwelle.de/
Discovery: http://www.discovery.com/
Dish
Network: http://www.dishtv.net/programming/international/
ESPN: http://www.espn.go.com/
Fox: http://www.fox.com/
The
Globe-Gate Project: http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
Bob Peckham, Director (e-mail: bobp@utm.edu). "2nd Edition - Now
a 5000-Link Globe-Gate Supersite." Check out this web site for lots of
stuff about French language teaching and culture.
The International
Channel: http://www.i-channel.com/
Knowledge TV - Global Culture & Language: http://www.jec.edu/ktv/index.html
MTV: http://www.mtv.com/
NBC: http://www.msnbc.com/
or
1-800-992-8388 for teaching materials
Nickelodeon: http://www.nick-at-night.com/
Primestar Spanish: http://www.directv.com/programming/programmingpages/0,1093,222,00.html
SCI-FI: http://www.scifi.com/
SCOLA: http://www.scola.org/
TNT: http://www.tnt-tv.com/index.html
Univision: http://UNIVISION.net/
USA Network: http://www.usanetwork.com/
Weather
Channel: http://www.weather.com/
Information about Feature Films
Internet Movie Data Base: http://us.imdb.com/
Information about
117,000 movies.
Video Oyster: http://www.videooyster.com
A
great site to locate out of print videos.
Many feature films, films that were shown in theaters before they were available on 16mm or video, are available to rent from local video rental stores. Many titles, however, are not available from the video stores. The Audiovisual Center collects catalogs from companies that rent and sell video copies of feature films. Here are some of the resources available:
WWW pages of video rental and sales companies
Facets Multi-media, Inc.: http://www.facets.org/
Reel: The Planet's Biggest Movie Store:
http://www.reel.com/cgi-bin/reel.exe/REELZARHWDY5YEWYGWR/welcome.html