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Posted: 01-11-2009 17:08 Post subject:

WFMU's Beware of the Blog has some mp3s of James Mason reading Edgar Allen Poe.

Posted: 28-09-2010 00:57 Post subject:

I watched a decent copy of the 'The Stone Tape' (1972), on YouTube, tonight.

Cut into chunks and all that, but well worth watching. One of the best and most Fortean adaptations of Nigel Kneale's work, after the Quatermass series. A sublime mixture of horror and science fiction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEK17FdSMY

Catch it if you can. yeay

Posted: 18-06-2011 14:57 Post subject:

Tony Robinson and the Paranormal (3 episodes):
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tony-robinson-and-the-paranormal/

Posted: 18-11-2011 14:33 Post subject:

The Lost Turntable has File #733 U.F.O. and the intriguing story of both the record and the man who made it.

Posted: 10-12-2011 21:31 Post subject:

As a weird kind of Christmas Greetings I put the "Psychogeography Bingo" on my weblog. Maybe you are amused ... maybe it's not worth looking at. There are a few - extremely modest - prizes to be won:

http://uair01.blogspot.com/2011/12/psychogeography-bingo.html

Posted: 16-06-2012 13:25 Post subject:

It was a few years since I had explored the world of online musical scores, having somewhat neglected music in favour of film since DVDs came along. Back around 2006, I felt quite chuffed to find half a dozen scores of little motets and choral pieces on a site called Petrucci.

What has happened to that site since is recorded on this page

I was brought up in the belief that to properly appreciate a piece of music, you needed to follow the score as you listened. The trouble was that new pocket-scores were often several times as expensive as the records! It was always a happy day if a stash of old scores or sheet-music found their way to a charity shop but those random lucky hits are history: the Petrucci Library is quite staggering in its coverage. Practically everything by every composer you have heard of and vast swathes of less celebrated figures is there for anyone with the initiative to click a button. I have even been tempted to print out some of the piano music and put my fingers to work on a bit of Albéniz, for the first time in years.

It does, however, give me pause for thought that this dream-resource has become available for free at a time when classical music culture has become more or less invisible to the uninitiated. It reminds me of a time when every town would have had a small store where livings were made by a small army of middle-men acting as gate-keepers to the wealth of musical culture. Not to mention those music teachers who would add a nice mark-up to anything they supplied to their pupils from their own stock of musty fodder. All gone! And it's tempting to say good riddance yet, browsing the seemingly endless stock of this Library of Babylon, I wonder how many of today's generation will ever find their way in!

Even if you wish only to boggle, the neat little url is here:

http://imslp.org/

Cool

edit: "have had" not "have have!"

Posted: 07-09-2012 19:58 Post subject:

Oh Lordy! Amazing things are now available for free download. Students of early cinema should flock to:

http://mediahistoryproject.org/

Shelves and shelves of old cinema journals, often complete runs. Imagine what just one issue would cost to own. . . .

Now where's the devil to sell me twenty lifetimes in return for one badly-worn soul? Confused

Posted: 07-09-2012 20:04 Post subject:

Excellent find, James!

Faved, fanned and bookmarked! yeay

Posted: 13-10-2012 21:07 Post subject:

Beethoven's 5th Symphony must have had hundreds of recordings by now. For a long time, the Nikisch version from 1913 was regarded as the first of any complete symphony.

But it appears the Odeon company recorded it in Berlin in 1910 under its house conductor, Friedrich Kark.

Though the sound from over a century ago is not going to be hi-fi, there is no difficulty in following the score. The performance has some lapses but it is spirited enough.

It is available to hear free on YouTube:

Beethoven's 5th in 1910

To get the date in perspective, the symphony was first performed in 1808, we are hearing a performance from just 102 years later. A further 102 years have elapsed since it went onto those discs! Smile

edit: missing "to" added in 3rd paragraph

Posted: 14-10-2012 00:42 Post subject:

www.tubegnosis.com

Posted: 14-10-2012 13:56 Post subject:

Oh, nice find, ally_katte, thanks for posting!

Just thing thing for a damp Sunday afternoon; I'm watching a documentary on Escher now Very Happy

Posted: 02-11-2012 00:30 Post subject:

When I'm bored with watching cats shagging on Youtube, I try something a tad more cultural on the French-based DailyMotion site.

Though they are meant for streaming and seem to be licenced by the owners, it is easy to save them - at least in Safari.

The BFI have uploaded a swathe of their own titles, including The Terence Davies Trilogy, Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animations, Jan Svankmajer's short films and Scorsese's Personal Journey Through American Movies complete:

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/BFIfilms/1

I get the feeling I have not even scratched the surface of this site. Canal + also seem to upload their films. I have just found L'enfer de Henri Georges Clouzot, the fascinating study of his unfinished final film, albeit without English subs:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xssa95_l-enfer-d-henri-georges-clouzot_creation

The very kinky trailer for his earlier La Prisonniere is also to be seen.

Stacks of Georges Méliès shorts, including many I have not seen before. Smile

Posted: 06-11-2012 16:29 Post subject:

Another free films site worth exploring. Many are the usual fusty Public Domain titles but I found a watchable enough print of Buñuel's Los Olvidados, albeit one without English subtitles:

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v28615713pyfbqSDk

There is even a Download button on the page, though they seemed to stream well enough for me last night!

Wikipedia gives some background

Posted: 06-11-2012 16:52 Post subject:

If you have a means of downloading video from your browser cache, you'll find that both YouTube and Veoh stream in mp4 while DailyMotion still only offers flv.

Not that any of you would dream of doing anything with that information, of course... Wink

Posted: 04-05-2013 12:47 Post subject:

Found this on youtube, for those interested in numbers stations:

BBC radio 4 broadcast of "Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY