Take a break today and be inspired by this video on the Mast Brothers, a small chocolate maker in Brooklyn. It’s a combination of craft, history, and biography in a well produced short film by The Scout. For historic sites that interpret processes past or present, such as food production, building construction, archaeology, or historical research, this might be an engaging approach.
Tag Archives: Video
Video: Welcome to Fontevraud
This Friday’s break features Welcome to Fontevraud, a 2:25 video interpreting an arts and cultural center housed in a medieval abbey in western France. How would artists interpret your site?
Video: Starry Night
For today’s Friday break, a video by Petros Vrellis that demonstrates an interactive iPad application of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. Is this a glimpse of a future where visitors can explore collections in new ways?
Video: Shaping History, Shaping Tomorrow
For your Friday break, Shaping History, Shaping Tomorrow is a video commissioned by Kieo University that explores the contrasts in Tokyo between new and traditional, historic and modern, young and old. How would these topics be presented at your site or community?
Video: U. S. Army Women’s Museum
An introduction to the U. S. Army Women’s Museum in Virginia. It’s celebratory and vague (you can easily swap the word “women” with “African Americans,” “Virginians,” or even “Latvians,” and not change the patriotic message very much) but who knew such a place existed.
Video: Denver History Minute
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This Denver History Minute produced by Denver 8 TV and Havey Production follows the political history of women in Colorado during the 20th century. It covers a lot of information in a short period (actually 1:30).
Video: Interpreting a woman suffrage photo
The Local History Specialist of the Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado interprets a 1915 photo of women seated in an open car advocating for the woman’s right to vote. The content is a bit overwhelming for me (its needs some themes and fewer discrete facts) but it provides an example of interpreting collections through video. It’s part of the “Framing Community, Exposing Identity” series to interpret “iconic images capturing life at the foot of Pikes Peak.”
Video: Sufferin’ ’til Suffrage
Friday’s video break goes nostalgic with a 1976 Schoolhouse Rock musical segment on woman suffrage with lyrics performed by Essra Mohawk, who performed with the Mothers of Invention and the Jerry Garcia Band. Rock on!
It’s women’s history month, but boy, good videos on the topic are rare. Is opportunity knocking?
Video: Connecting the Threads
This 38:00 freshly produced documentary follows the transformation of an historic clothing factory in Lebanon, NH into an art center. Directed by Ken Turino of Historic New England and produced in collaboration with AVA Gallery and Community Access Television of Upper Valley, it features interviews, oral histories, and historic images.
Video: The City Concealed
This video by Thirteen introduces Weeksville, an African American community founded in the 19th century in Brooklyn. Today, it is an historic site that interprets the history, re-discovery, and preservation of this special neighborhood as a “multidimensional museum”.
Engaging Places 