Curated Video
UPDATE Heavens open at Harry Potter premiere in London
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AP Entertainment
3rd July 2007, London
1. WS Odeon cinema in London's Leicester Square
2. Pan across fans waiting in sunshine
3. WS police at event
4. WS Odeon 'bridge'
5. MS...
Curated Video
Tributes paid to famed writer Benedetti, who dies at 88
AP Television
Montevideo, Uruguay, 18 May 2009
1. Various exteriors of Legislative Palace
2. Woman walking into hall past guards
3. Various of relatives and friends of poet Mario Benedetti around the coffin
4. Pan from people waiting...
Curated Video
UN panel chief will not quit over errors in glaciers report
New Delhi, India - January 23 2010
1. Chairman of United Nations'' Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Dr Rajendra K Pachauri arriving for the press conference
2. Cutaway cameras and reporters
3. Wide of news conference
4....
Curated Video
Celebrating Belgium's comic strip culture
Brussels, Belgium, 29 - 30 June 2009
1. Various of Titeuf mural
2. Various of Fanny and Cie's mural
3. Wide of Atomium
4. Wide of Brussels city centre
5. Wide of Asterix and Obelix mural in Brussels showing the famous inhabitants of the...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Passion is a page turner in South Africa
CLEAN: Passion is a page turner in South Africa
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : French prisoners escape with a book
CLEAN : French prisoners escape with a book
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Passion is a page turner in South Africa
VOICED: Passion is a page turner in South Africa
Bloomberg
The Rising Supremacy of Robots on Wall Street
Feb.11 -- Fresh signs of robot supremacy are emerging on Wall Street in the form of machine stock analysts that make more profitable investment choices than humans. At least, that’s the upshot of one of the first studies of the subject,...
Sky News
Authors and novelists are calling for more diverse characters in children's literature...
Authors and novelists are calling for more diverse characters in children's literature...
Curated Video
Critical Race Theory Fight Made Libraries A Free Speech Battleground
Many librarians are dealing with a wave of challenges to what they're putting on their shelves.
C-SPAN
Bell Ringer: Maya Angelou
Introduce Maya Angelou with a short video that provides viewers with an overview of her many accomplishments and some of her papers collected at Wake Forest Library.
C-SPAN
On This Day: Publication Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written to expose the evils of slavery. Published in 1852 by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to demonstrate the terrors and reality of slavery African Americans were experiencing. The interesting resource...
PBS
Julia Alvarez
An interview sheds light on author Julia Alvarez's immigration journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States of America. Alvarez describes in detail how she felt creating a new home, what it was like to return to the Dominican...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Kurt Vonnegut?
In the midst of darkness, there's hope. A video lesson shares key themes found in Kurt Vonnegut's writing, including the idea of hope in darkness. After watching the video, viewers take a short quiz to test their understanding, answer...
The School of Life
Charles Dickens
How much do you know about the life of Charles Dickens? A thorough video discusses the author's professional successes and private failures with engaging animation and informative narration.
The School of Life
Virginia Woolf
Libraries may have been locked to women for centuries, but writers like Virginia Woolf were instrumental in opening the doors for other female authors. Learn more about Woolf's place in the modernist age and her voice in the literary...
Curated OER
The AuthorÕs Purpose
A good reader thinks about the author's purpose while reading a book. Students use the acronym P.I.E. to remind them how to think about author's purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
Curated OER
Theme
Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.
Other
Wired for Books: Art Buchwald
Great interview audio of Art Buchwald and Don Swain. Among other things the two discuss politics, NYC and the media. Includes portrait photo.
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Author/illustrator, Tim Reed
Meet Clubhouse Expert, Tim Reed, author and illustrator of My Very Silly Monster children's book series. This clip shows the tools he uses for illustrating his books and talks about the highlights of being an author. He also teaches the...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Celebrating 20 Years of the Magic Tree House
This site shares an interview with the creators of the Magic Treehouse series. It has been twenty years since the first Magic Tree House book was published! In honor of this milestone, Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne and Natalie Pope...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Streetcar Named Desire
National Public Radio presents a feature on Tennessee Williams' famous play.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: William Faulkner Banquet Speech
The Nobel Prize site offers a transcript of the speech William Faulkner gave after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.