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Films, Videos. ↓ Refine your search Great conversations: the pianists videorecording | 1 digibeta videotape; duration: 60 min., 20 sec. | Eugene Istomin and his fellow pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, and Charles Rosen offer insights into the ... Waterfall in the Catskills / Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31July1897; 43413. Camera, William Heise? Duration: 0:25 at 30 fps. From Edison films catalog: Beautiful water effects at Haines' Falls, a most picturesque and charming mountain cataract. Hilltop Young people singing "I'd like to buy the world a coke" on a hilltop in Italy. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Historic Sound Recordings. The Library provides access to a portion of its audio collections through the Recorded Sound Reference Center's web page, the American Memory site, The Performing Arts Encyclopedia and the American Folklife Center pages.

These collections are described below. To listen to recordings that are unavailable online, contact the Recorded Sound Reference Center. Recorded Sound Section Online Collections National Jukebox The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Tony Schwartz Collection These recordings are a sampling from the Library's Tony Schwartz collection. American Memory Online Collections. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page.

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