Video Streaming Databases
- Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowThis database provides performances of award-winning theatrical productions from across the United Kingdom; including plays as well as musicals and operas.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA video streaming service that provides access to more than 30,000 movies, documentaries, award-winning world and classic cinema, and educational videos.
You will need to create an account with Kanopy to proceed. This is a separate account from your portal (my.vcccd) account. - Films on Demand, Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window This collection of streaming videos provides access to more than 20,000 full-length productions and 300,000 video clips, all closed-captioned, covering topics in the humanities and social sciences, business and economics, science, health, technical education, and careers. Producers include A&E, BBC, Bill Moyers, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, National Geographic, and Scientific American. The database is searchable by various means including subject/keyword.
- Films on Demand, Feature Films This link opens in a new window Films on Demand Feature Films offers full-length streaming feature films for instructional purposes from producers such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, A&E, History, ABCNews, BBC, NBC News, Shopware, Biography, National Geographic and others
- Swank This link opens in a new window This database offers access to licensed streaming video from the world's top movie studios.
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new windowIncludes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.
Kanopy (you will need to create an account with Kanopy to proceed. This is a separate account from your portal (my.vcccd) account).
Films on Demand
- Conducting LightThis video with David Lee Cuthbert, professor of theatre arts and lighting specialist, demonstrates the basics of stage lighting, discussing basic equipment, cabling, hanging, and focusing of lights.
- Blocking a Scene: Basic Staging With ActorsStudents learn the basics of directing a scene from Professor Michael Joyce formerly of Mary Washington College. Emphasizing script analysis, development of a floorplan, and collaboration with actors, Joyce works with students as they begin their very first directing project - a scene from George Brenard Shaw's Candida.
- What's the Score? Text Analysis for the ActorIn this program, Arthur Wagner, who is an authority on the application of transactional analysis in character development, explains his approach to character creation and text analysis.
- Jamaican Storyteller & Thomas Osha Pinnock"The island of Jamaica comes alive in this program featuring Jamaican Storyteller/Performer Thomas Osha Pinnock in an excerpt from his solo show, Reggae Boogie Talk Show. In this program the artist illuminates, in a heartfelt and charming manner, folk tales and myths from his homeland."