From the main library website you can type the title of a film, the subject you're interested in, or the name of a person into PittCat.
You can then narrow your list of results to just include films, videos, and dvds by using the options on the left of the screen. Select More under Resource Type, Show More, and check Videos, then Apply Filters.
You can also run an Advanced Search, limiting to Video/Film in Material Type, and searching by Title field.
Depending on what you're looking for, you may want to limit your results to just include films in a certain language or just films that are available at your campus library.
To request a film from another campus, first click on its title in PittCat, then click through "Get It" button on its item record.
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These are the key library databases that provide video. These databases also offer the playlist capabilities.
Academic Video Online allows users to cross-search all of the video published by Alexander Street Press. Virtually every video in the collection is fully transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type. NOTE: There are no restrictions on simultaneous users for Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online content. The vendor ProQuest advises that content can be shared on Zoom as long as you are not charging admission.
A collection of commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,848 titles equaling approximately 1,215 hours.
Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours.
Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures.
Contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions.
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Access to more than 600 full-length Met performances (The Metropolitan Opera of New York City).
Focuses on engineering successes and failures and can be used for projects, papers, and discussions that focus on ethics. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
The ULS is currently streaming a select number of films on Kanopy. You can search for ‘Kanopy’ in PittCat to see these titles. The expiration date varies by title but is visible in the detailed information provided in PittCat.
Anyone interested in gaining access to film or media for research or teaching are encouraged to submit the media request form.
A playlist is a selection of media (text, images, videos, clips, tracks, URLs) that are grouped together. You can also add ANY outside URL to a playlist, including links to YouTube videos. Annotations can be added to anything in the playlist.
You can save your own playlists in the Alexander Street Press music and theater databases, share them with students via permanent URL's, or embed the URLs and video into CourseWeb.
To find ULS D-Scribe digital publishing that contains video files, search the collections.
There are currently 4 collections that have video:
D-Scholarship@Pitt | Dick Thornburgh Papers | Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Historic Pittsburgh: Collection Homepage
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Pitt maintains a collection of course and event related videos through Panopto. You must use a Pitt username and password to log in.