Super Geek Heroes
Musical Instruments with Ronnie Rock
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Expressive Arts & Design. Ronnie Rock is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Ronnie sings about his favourite musical instruments by playing them one...
Fun Kids
Learn About Musical Instruments
Let's learn about musical instrument names! In this video you'll learn: guitar, violin, trumpet, drums, piano, tambourine, maracas, triangle, congas and accordion. Can you play a musical instrument? What's your favorite musical instrument?
The Africa Channel
Acoustic Ancestry
ACOUSTIC ANCESTRY is a music series of 3-5 minute pieces in which the sounds of little known, surprising, or perhaps lost indigenous African musical instruments are highlighted, along with the stories of their contributions to music....
Curated Video
Yamaha Using Tech and Sustainability Efforts to Keep Music Modern, Says Exec
Yamaha Corp. of America President Tom Sumner told Cheddar the company has worked to find ways to combine traditional craftsmanship and technology to create a more "compelling" instrument for musicians
Curated Video
Libya enjoys the return of the traditional music Malouf
Traditional music Malouf is making a comeback in Libya.
Curated Video
Quebec’s new French-language rules are here, but businesses want more time to comply
Quebec’s Bill 96 requires French to be the dominant language on store signs and imposes stricter guidelines for product packaging. The changes came into effect on June 1 despite a request from business groups to extend the deadline for...
Bridgeman Arts
Band rehearsal in a big hall at the Paris Conservatoire, France, 1943
Clip 2 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. An orchestra rehearses in a big music hall...
Bridgeman Arts
A Visit to Gibraltar 1964
Shots of the Rock, feeding the Barbary apes, shots of the airport runway, the old harbour, castle, main street shops and a procession on main street.
Bridgeman Arts
Cadets escaping from work camp, France, 1944
Clip 6 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. Cadets prepare for escape. They eventually...
Bridgeman Arts
Musicians play for three German officers. France, 1944
Clip 4 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. April 1944. "Rue du Conservatoire" sign....
Bridgeman Arts
Cadets perform in front of a large audience. France, 1940s
Clip 9 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. The cadets play a concert in a big hall.
Bridgeman Arts
EILEAN DONAN CASTLE, SCOTLAND, 1970
Eilean Donan is a small island located in the West Highlands of Scotland, where three large lagoons meet, and connect it to the mainland by a bridge. The island is dominated by one of Scotland's most iconic castles and certainly one of...
Bridgeman Arts
Village Traditions in Scotland
Opening shot of two people, man and woman in De Olde Village Stocks, people throwing water at them, laughing, fun, wet, woman gets a wet sponge in face, cut to shot of stall, Ye Old Dutch Maid Company, cut to man dressed in red coat as...
Bridgeman Arts
Dancing and carnivals in Martinique, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 6 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, men and women dance outdoors. A carnival procession of dancers, citizens and children moves through the streets.
Bridgeman Arts
Holiday group cycling through the countryside and visiting Aubusson. France, 1930s
Clip 2 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. Holiday group cycling along the Creuse and down country roads, playing...
Bridgeman Arts
Sugar cane farmers and dancers in Guadeloupe, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 9 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, farmers work with sugar cane, and transport their crops. Dancers dance to a drum beat and a band.
Bridgeman Arts
Polynesian people dancing in the forest. France, 1955
Clip 7 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of Polynesian women dancing and running through a forest while a man plays a guitar-type instrument. A man cuts some...
Bridgeman Arts
Tuareg tribe at camp, playing and listening to music. Man holds woman's hand (courting?). Algeria 1957
Clip 9 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. The Tuaregs, Bedouin tribes. Woman plays a string instrument with others sitting around listening. Person greeted as they walk up to tent in encampment in the Tamanghasset...
Curated Video
Logging rules put pressure on musical instrument makers
LEADIN:
International trade rules adopted to save the world's tropical rosewood forests from extinction have musical instrument makers singing the blues.
Fearful that Africa and Asia were losing rosewood...
Bridgeman Arts
Moroccan men and women making music in a mosque, c.1960
Clip from 'Going Places' series with Lowell Thomas. Men playing the tambourines and clappin their hands inside the mosque. Women clapping their hands.
Bridgeman Arts
Singer and jazz band at nightclub in Juan-les-Pins, 1952
Part 4 of 1952 promo film about Juan-le-Pins. male singer sings a French song into a microphone. Jazz musicians play together, piano solo.
Bridgeman Arts
Festival of Flowers in Monaco. French Riviera, 1951
Clip 5 from the 1951 French language film 'Croisiere Bleue' about the South of France, the French Riviera, Monaco and Monte Carlo. Scene of the harbour. Tilt down to a shot of meadow covered with white flowers. Scenes from the festival...
Bridgeman Arts
Madagascar c.1958 - Traditional music and dancing.
Clip 17 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Traditional music and dancing. Air France plane leaves.
Bridgeman Arts
School performances, parades and choir singing. Estonia, 1971
Clip 9 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Older school children in traditional dress give flowers to elders. Students perform dances on stage. A band plays music and a community parade walks...