A Good Place to Find Movies in the Public Domain
As I wrote in my guide to using media in classroom projects, using public domain media is your best bet when you can’t use media that you created yourself. In that guide I included a list of places to find public domain media. This morning, I discovered another good resource. That resource is PublicDomainMovie.net. On […]
5 Good Places to Find Public Domain Video Clips
There are plenty of places to find public domain images online. But finding public domain video clips isn’t quite as easy as finding public domain images. Part of the reason for that is the cost associated with hosting videos. Should you find yourself or your students in need of public domain video clips to mix […]
Vintage Travel Posters, Advertisements, and Films
In my post about Seward’s Folly I included the image of a vintage advertisement for an Alaskan cruise on Canadian Pacific. That poster came from the Boston Public Library’s Flickr collection of vintage travel posters. Most of the images in that collection are either in the public domain or have a Creative Commons license allowing for re-use […]
Pixabay Videos – How Have I Been Overlooking This?
Thanks to Anthony St. Jean last night I learned that Pixabay hosts public domain videos that you can download for free. It’s an option that is right on the front page of Pixabay and I’ve just overlooked it. To find public domain videos on Pixabay just select the “video” option from the menu on the […]
Stockio – Free Images, Icons, Fonts, and Videos
Atlantic Puffin Pair – Ray Hennessey via Stockio. Stockio is a website that offers free images, icons, fonts, and videos to download and re-use in your own projects. According to the notices that accompany each file on Stockio, attribution is not required but is appreciated. To download an image, an icon, or a font set […]
Three Places to Find Public Domain Video Clips
On Wednesday I published suggestions for places to find public domain images. Then yesterday I received an email from a reader who was wondering about public domain video options. These are the three resources that I suggested to her. The Internet Archive is the first place that comes to mind when I am asked for […]