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Resources that include both video and audio files:

CBC Archives
A unique collection curated by creative teams of archivists and educational writers from across Canada. Includes an 'On This Day' feature that highlights significant events in Canadian history.

Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Includes 'The Ad Gallery' with images of magazine advertisements and advertising brochures from the Ad*Access database for products like Palmolive soap, air travel, Cadbury chocolate and Modess sanitary napkins, from prominent companies like Colgate Palmolive Peet, Air France, Cadbury and Personal Products Corporation.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace, and Protest
This fabulous resource provides access to colour digital images of archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, including: The Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley and the Rock Source Archive. The collection includes videos and photographs as well as print documents.
Rock's Backpages
Billed as the "ultimate archive of music journalism" Rock's Backpages includes a searchable database of articles about bands and artists who have been and continue to influential in the development of popular music. Also included are audio files of interviews with many artists including David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and k.d. Lang and news and reviews of current interest.
Naxos Music Library
NAXOS Music Library offers streamed access to almost 200,000 recordings and adds some 800 recordings each month. Genres include classical, blues, jazz, nostalgia, pop, rock and many more. You can search by composer, performer, label; create playlists for classes, find opera libretti and synopses, and analyses and details of works (available recordings, instrumentation, duration).
Victorian Popular Culture
Digital collection that includes handbills and programmes for theatre, music hall and circus performances, audio files of popular music and early films from the archives of the British Film Institute.

Western Libraries Has Videos

Western Libraries provides access to several collections of videos including Kanopy and Alexander Street Press. Using the library catalogue, you can find videos in these collections and also locate films in DVD format that you can borrow. For information about our collection of films on streaming video, use the Audio and Video Resources Guide.