Finding Films and Videos at Yale and Beyond
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Finding Video Recordings at Yale
To find videos at Yale, the simplest and most effective method is to perform a Keyword search using your subject term(s) plus the phrase and videorecording. For technical reasons, this is usually more accurate than using the Search Limits feature in Orbis.
If you are searching for films by a particular director or actor, remember to put the name in quotation marks.
Example Orbis Keyword Searches for Finding Videos at Yale
- "lee, ang" and videorecording
- shakespeare and branagh and videorecording
- "civil war" and videorecording
- "streep, meryl" and videorecording
If you are looking for videos on a particular topic, you may get better results by performing an Advanced Search.
Most cinematic video recordings at Yale are in the Film Study Center (FSC), located at 53 Wall St. in the Whitney Humanities Center. Most of its video holdings are listed in Orbis, but some are not: search the Film Study Center's database online for the complete list. NOTE: You may need to accept a site security certificate when you enter the database.
Several libraries also have small video collections, including the Cross Campus Library, the Divinity Library, the Music Library, and the British Art Center. These videos are listed in Orbis. These are usually not videos of feature films.
The Search Limits feature is useful if you want to find videos at a specific Yale library or collection.
Finding Video Recordings Outside Yale
See also Film and Video Archives, Collections, and Institutions.
- Best Video
- Search the Best Video catalog on the web and rent the films through the Best Video outlet in the Yale Bookstore on Broadway.
- Facets Video
- Facets Video, a division of Facets Multi-Media, is one of the nation's largest distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos. The Facets Video Library has tens of thousands of titles available for either purchase or rental. This video collection represents the best of our international film heritage: Thousands of foreign films, hundreds of documentaries, experimental and concert films, Hollywood classics, landmark silent films, American independent films, serials, animation, cult and the best of children's films.
ForeignFilms.com
- Museum
of Modern Art. Circulating Film Library Catalog
(New York: MoMA, 1984-1990)
SML, Reference. PN1993.4 +M87 1984 (LC) - Founded in 1935 as the Film Library, this department's collection now includes more than 14,000 films and four million film stills; the strongest international film collection in the United States, it incorporates all periods and genres. Among the holdings are original negatives of the Biograph and Edison companies, and the world's largest collection of D.W. Griffith films. The film collection is now stored in the Museum's Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, a state-of-the-art facility that opened in June 1996. The Department's video collection, begun in 1970, includes some 800 works dating from the 1960s to the present, ranging from educational pieces and broadcast documentaries to works by the artists whose primary medium is video.
- Reel.com
- Reel.com is a video store on the internet, with over 85,000 movies for sale and 35,000 movies for rent.
- WorldCat
- WorldCat allows one to limit the search to videos, either by selecting "Visual Materials" as a format from the Advanced Search screen, or by doing a Basic Search and then selecting the "Visual" tab.
- Other Film and Video Archives and Collections
- Use these resources to locate film and video collections, film stills and photos, archival and manuscript collections, and other primary source film materials.
