Who is funnier, Harold Lloyd or Charlie Chaplin? How has Shakespeare been portrayed in film? Try one of these new gateways to video streaming on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone:
Alexander Street Streaming Video offers access to more than 22,000 educational titles across more than 20 disciplines, ranging from history to music to counseling to business. Within the database, the user has at his or her fingertips the capability of powerful searching, building playlists, synchronous transcripts, and a citation exporter to assist in documenting one’s research.
Kanopy Streaming Video has one of the largest collections of films in the world with 26,000+ films from hundreds of leading producers such as Criterion Collection, Universal Paramount, The Great Courses, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Documentary Educational Resources, etc. Users can watch films, share comments, create clips and playlists. Subject areas include: humanities, education, arts, business, health, sciences, and media and communications.
Refer to Swem’s Library Database list to find these two new resources.
