Australia's Aboriginal Writers: 2019 National Book Festival
Jeanine Leane discussed "Walk Back Over," Brenton McKenna discussed "Ubby's Underdogs: Return of the Dragons" and Kim Scott launched in America his book "Taboo" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book...
Contributor:
Scott, Kim - McKenna, Brenton - Leane, Jeanine
Community, Family & Country: 2015 National Book Festival
Jeanine Leane and Tony Birch share readings and discuss issues important to contemporary life for Aboriginal people in Australia as reflected in their work, at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book...
Contributor:
Birch, Tony - Leane, Jeanine
Date:2015-09-05
Film, Video
Stories From Down Under: 2015 National Book Festival
Contemporary fiction writers Tony Birch and Ellen Van Neerven, along with social historian Bruce Pascoe introduce readings and understanding into the diversity of stories that make modern Australia -- both fact and...
Contributor:
Birch, Tony - Neerven, Ellen Van - Pascoe, Bruce
Date:2015-09-05
Film, Video
Young Adventures: 2015 National Book Festival
Authors Jared Thomas and Bruce Pascoe join with author/illustrator Dub Leffler to share their stories, characters and insights at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Contributor:
Thomas, Jared - Leffler, Dub - Pascoe, Bruce
Date:2015-09-05
Film, Video
Troop ships for the Philippines
Troopships for the Philippines
Shows the departure from San Francisco of two troop ships, the S.S. Australia and the S.S. City of Sydney, bound for Manila during the Spanish-American War. The first ship shown is the...
Contributor:
Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1898
Film, Video
No Greater Challenge: Assessing Legal Responses to Terrorism
The Law Library of Congress presented a lecture by James Renwick. Renwick is an Australian barrister and visiting Fulbright Scholar. His lecture, "No Greater Challenge: Assessing Legal Responses to Terrorism," focused on...
Contributor:
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles Brothers - Miles, Herbert J.
Date:1907
Film, Video
Voyages and Travel in Medieval Europe as Depicted in Saga Literature
The Library of Congress and the Cornell University Library sponsored a scholarly symposium on Old Norse sagas. The symposium, "Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture," featured five sessions presented by...
Date:2000-05-25
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: One Step Variation
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:37 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "The Castle Walk" by James Reese Europe and...
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: Castle Walk
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:21 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "The Castle Walk" by James Reese Europe and...
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: The Maxixe (1st Step)
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:26 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "Bregeiro Maxixe" by Ernesto Nazareth in The Mark...
No One's Son
Documentary filmmaker, Tewodros "Teddy" Fekadu has lived in five countries and three continents, ultimately journeying from Eritrea and Ethiopia to the Gold Coast of Australia. His life spans war, family love, the...
Contributor:
Fekadu, Tewodros
Date:2012-05-03
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: The Maxixe
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:26 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "Bregeiro Maxixe" by Ernesto Nazareth in The Mark...
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: The Maxixe
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:26 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "Bregeiro Maxixe" by Ernesto Nazareth in The Mark...
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: Argentine Tango
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:50 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "El Choclo" by A.G. Villoldo in The Mark...
Film, Video
Ragtime Dance: Argentine Tango (4th figure-feet only)
videorecording | 1 digital file. Duration: 0:15 | Reconstructed by Elizabeth Aldrich. Performed by Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird, dancers; Boris Gurevich, piano. Music: "El Choclo" by A.G. Villoldo in The Mark...
Dogs used as smugglers
Chiens contrebandiers | Canine smugglers | Dog smugglers
With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to customs officers, a fierce skirmish results and only...
"Hungry Disgusted Blues"
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their...
Secrets of the dead. Mumbai massacre /
Mumbai massacre
Relates the perspective of victims and survivors of the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 26, 2008. Depicts the events of 60 hours broadcast live to the world via cell phones and Internet,...
Contributor:
Schreiber, Liev - Electric Pictures (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Pitt, Victoria - Wnet (Television Station : New York, N.Y.) - Screen Australia - Furnace Limited - Ogilvie, Andrew - Pbs Distribution (Firm) - Craig, Phil - Quesnelle, Andrea
Date:2009
Film, Video
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival: Orion String Quartet
This concert highlights the music of Australian composer and violist Brett Dean, who premieres a new work for viola and piano--a Library co-commission-with Juho Pohjonen. His arresting monodrama, "And once I played...
Contributor:
Orion String Quartet - Pohjonen, Juho - Arnold, Tony - Dean, Brett
Date:2017-04-08
Film, Video
Mabel and Fatty viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco, Cal.
Mabel and Fatty at the World's Fair | Frisco story
Comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The antics of Fatty and Mabel are accompanied by shots of Exposition...
Contributor:
Afi/Meggers (William F.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Mutual Film Company - Blackhawk Films - Sennett, Mack - Keystone Film Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Arbuckle, Roscoe
Date:1915
Film, Video
Conversation with Iona Fyfe
Aberdeenshire folksinger Iona Fyfe is recognized as one of Scotland's finest young ballad singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. Winner of Scots Singer of the...
Contributor:
Fyfe, Iona - Winick, Stephen
Date:2021-02-08
Film, Video
Troops embarking at San Francisco
Shows troops of the First Regiment, California Volunteers, boarding the Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking to serve in the Philippine theater of the Spanish-American War. The film was shot at the...
Contributor:
Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
Date:1898
Film, Video
Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index
Steve Roud discusses his work compiling The Folk Song Index, an online index to all the traditional folksongs of the English-speaking world. The Folk Song Index is a freely-available online database which...
Contributor:
Roud, Steve
Date:2011-04-14
Film, Video
The Cellos of Stradivari
videorecording | videorecording ; 59 min | Cellists Richard Belcher, Enso String Quartet, and Steven Honigberg, along with sculptor/instrument collector Alfredo Halegua, luthier John Montgomery and Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford of the Library's...
Contributor:
Montgomery, John - Halegua, Alfredo - Library of Congress - Belcher, Richard - Honigberg, Steven - Ward-Bamford, Carol Lynn
Date:2006
Film, Video
South Pacific Ethnographic Archives audiovisual collection,
Field footage and produced films made by Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Theodore Schwartz, Lenora Foerstel, and Lola Romanucci-Ross; chiefly anthropological and ethnological field work with the Papua New Guinea (formerly...
Contributor:
Institute for Intercultural Studies
Date:1936
Film, Video
Leipzig String Quartet
With a program featuring a Romantic era classic by Borodin and favorites by Debussy and Stravinsky, the Leipzig String Quartet demonstrated some of their most dramatic works, highlights from their 50 recordings.
Contributor:
Leipzig String Quartet
Date:2015-03-21
Film, Video
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria greeted by his people
Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior title...
Contributor:
Franz Joseph I - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1910
Film, Video
Pacifica Quartet & Jörg Widmann
The exuberant Pacifica Quartet joins forces with German composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann for a program featuring Haydn's Quartet in G major, op. 76, no. 1; Widmann's String Quartet no. 3 ("Jagdquartett");...
Contributor:
Pacifica Quartet - Widmann, Jörg
Date:2017-01-23
Film, Video
Iona Fyfe
Folk singer Iona Fyfe performs a concert of traditional music.
Contributor:
Fyfe, Iona
Date:2020-08-19
Film, Video
Kanopy.
Kanopy streaming service | Kanopy Streaming Video
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse...
Mark Padmore Sings Beethoven & Schubert
World-renowned English Tenor Mark Padmore makes his Library of Congress debut in a recital with pianist Andrew West. On the program are Beethoven's "Mailied," op. 52/4; "Neue Liebe, neues Leben," op. 75/2;...
Contributor:
Padmore, Mark - West, Andrew
Date:2016-10-17
Film, Video
Asian Ambassadors Lecture Series
The Library of Congress Asian Division and the Asian Division Friends Society host a program marking the launch of the Asian Ambassador Lecture Series. Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is featured as the...
Contributor:
Chee, Chan Heng
Date:2009-12-02
Film, Video
Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope
In 1609, Galileo constructed the first powerful telescope and started observing the heavens, which led to many monumental discoveries. He published his initial findings on the moon and the stars in 1610...
