Visual and Streaming Media
Costumes, Lighting, Stage Design & more!
- Costume Gallery"A central location on the web for fashion and costume"
- Commercial Pattern Archive"A unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1868 to 2000."
- LiveDesign MagazineThe must-read creative and technical journal for live entertainment professionals in lighting, sound, staging, and projection. Each issue provides designers, programmers, and technicians with tips and trends, news and reviews of the latest gear, reports from the field, and industry viewpoint and commentary.
- Amber MylarHomepage of lighting designer, Kevin Adams.
Image Database & Resources at Vanderbilt
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowDigital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Collections from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Access Note: To download images or use other advanced features, individuals must register for an individual user account.
- Ad Access This link opens in a new windowImage database of advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford’s art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowStreaming video collection 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.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowStreaming performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Gull text of plays, their history of performance, production background, reference materials and ephemera. Plays are predominately 20th century and Shakespeare productions.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowOn-demand streaming video service for documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases. Films under a current license agreement are available for immediate viewing. Other films may require a request through the Kanopy site. Viewing films in a group forum is permitted as long as the viewing is by Vanderbilt authorized viewers only (current faculty, staff, or students) and it is not for commercial benefit (i.e. no admission costs are charged and no profit is made from the screening).
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and thousands of award-winning films.
