Research Guides: Theatre &amp; Dance (UNH Durham): Sound & Video Resources

Video resources for UNH users

Kanopy Streaming Service
Offers access to a library of videos across diverse content areas like architecture, teacher education, health and safety, culture and politics in media, health studies and more. Note: there is a bug with Edge and Chrome browsers that prevents embedded video playback. Kanopy recommends providing a direct link to films or using non-Chromium browsers such as Safari or Firefox to watch embedded content.
Shakespeare in Performance
Showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeares plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally.
Theatre in Video: Volume 1
Contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with online streaming video of film documentaries, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Users can select portions of videos and save them as playable clips.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.
Jerome Robbins Dance Division Audio and Moving Image Archive
For materials that can be viewed from outside of the New York Public Library, check the "Exclude location-restricted videos" box.
Numeridance
Numeridanse is headed and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse, Lyon. It offers free access to a unique video base: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, dance videos.

British Library: Accents & Dialects
Audio examples of English dialects from England and Wales.
IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive
Recordings of English-language dialects and accents.

BBC Sound Effects
Sound effects in WAV format to download for personal, educational or research purposes.
FreeSound
Browsable, downloadable sounds under a Creative Commons License.