Video: Remote Collections: Video Clips

Watch and listen to an elderly man discuss his life in a concentration camp in WWII, analyze a chemistry animation, or review a shuttle mission. These are just a few of the learning experiences you can have with video clips. Besides serious uses of video, you can also watch the preview for the latest Harry Potter movie, catch clips of your favorite Star Trek episode, or instance, iTune is one of the best places to see movie trailers.

Go to Teachers Domain. This free service provides access to video clips that complement learning.

Many video clips are available through the Internet. Rather than full programs, these materials are short, easy to manage digital video files. Some files are only few second, while others may run for an hour or longer.

Clips may be downloaded or streamed. Downloaded clips such as Quicktime movies are copied from the web server onto your hard drive. You can then view them as many times as you'd like. You can even place them in a presentation. Streamed clips are downloaded as they are viewed. Windows Media Player, QuickTime Players, or Real Player are needed to watch these movies.

Some resources provide built-in tools to help users compare video. Go to Ease History. Notice how you can explore two, three, or four videos side-by-side.

Although most people start with YouTube, there are many individual websites that contain video also.

For information about downloading the plug-ins and player, check our Multimedia Seeds: Tools, Drivers, and Plugins page.

Search Engines

If you're looking for video clips using search engines such as Google, try adding the words real player, Quicktime, or video clip to your search. Or try using these video search engines:

• Altavista Video
• Google Video Search
• Yahoo Video Search

Websites with Video Clips

Education / Learning

• Annenberg Video - video for educators
• Edutopia - video for educators
• Teachers Domain - digital media and lesson materials

English / Language Arts

• American Writers: Video Archives from C-Span
• Reading Rockets Videos: Interviews with Authors and Illustrators

History

• American Memory Film Collections from Library of Congress - also, try the LC Collection Finder.
  • American Memory Collection from LC Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
• American Presidents Resources from C-Span in the Clasroom
• Ease History - video clips from historical events and campaign ads
• Fortunoff Video Holocaust Archive from Yale University Library
• Holocaust Movie Clips - QuickTime from the University of South Florida
• MBC Flashbacks from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
• Moving Image Archive from Internet Archive
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States - information, audio, & video (President Eisenhower and followers)
• Presidential Libraries
  • Media Archives On-Demand at LB Johnson Presidential Library
  • Screen Gems Collection from The Truman Presidential Museum & Library
• Principles of Government Video Clips from C-Span Classroom
• War Stories Interviews from Newseum - video interviews
• Yale Democracy Series

Movie and Video Previews

• IFILM
• Movies at Hollywood.com
• QuickTime Movie Trailers from Apple Computer, Inc.

Music Videos

• Find Videos
• Hip Clips Video Jukebox from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
• Yahoo Music Videos

News, Speeches & Interviews

• American Rhetoric - text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches and other recorded events
• CNN Video
• C-SPAN and C-Span Video Library
• Meet the Writers - video interviews from Barnes and Noble
• Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
• Video Oral History Gallery from New York Public Library
  

Science

• American Field Guide - recasting outdoors programming content from PBS stations
• Chemistry-Based
• Entomology Image Gallery from Iowa State University - some video
• Interesting High-speed (super slow motion) Video Clips from D.G. Alciatore, Colorado State University
• Physics Classroom, The

Stories

• Fablevision TV

Other Topics

• Ad Gallery:Television from National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
• Advertisement Ave

Native

• VisionMaker Video from AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite)

Virtual Field Trips

• Holocaust Movies (QuickTime) - from "A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust", University of South Florida

Good Use of Videos

• America's Library - from the Library of Congress
• Conversations with History - interviews on political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues (RealMedia) from University of California Television
• Savage Seas
• Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture from University of Virginia
• US Holocaust Museum - go to the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive or search for video

Explore the project, Your Genes, Your Health. Within each section, a person discusses what it's like to live with the disorder. Notice how video, audio, and animation are integrated into the projects above.

• Discuss how you might use this in an educational or entertainment setting.
• Use a video in a presentation.
• Evaluate the way video is used at the website