Beinecke Library on YouTube
Visit the library’s YouTube Channel for a growing set of videos, including collections highlights, the Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast series that goes behind the scenes with archivists and other staff, and videos from exhibitions such as Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500—1800. New video is added regularly!
Beinecke Library YouTube Channel
Creativity in Isolation and After series
Beinecke Illuminated visual podcasts
Windham-Campbell Prizes on Vimeo
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, established in 2013, call attention to literary achievement and provide writers working in English. Prizes are awarded each spring in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The prizes Vimeo channel includes recent and past prize announcements and video content of the annual festivals with readings, lectures, and discussions by prizewinners, as well as the annual Windham-Cambell Lecture on the theme, “Why I Write,” by distinguished authors.
Windham-Campbell Prizes Vimeo Channel
Video on the Beinecke digital library
The digital library includes a variety of moving images files available for viewing. One particular highlight are the Solomon Sir Jones Films, 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.
Solomon Sir Jones Films on the digital library
External video about authors and others in Beinecke Library collections
Documentary filmmakers often use Beinecke Library collections for research and many of the people whose papers or archives are stewarded by the library have been the subject of documentaries. The links below give a small, illustrative list; new links will be added from time to time. Note: some online films may require subscriptions or have other access requirements.
Rachel Carson via American Experience on PBS
Related: Rachel Carson Papers
N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear via American Masters on PBS
Robert Redford and N. Scott Momaday on Oral Tradition
Related: N. Scott Momaday Papers
Eugene O’Neill via American Experience on PBS
Related: Eugene O’Neill Papers
In Our Living and Our Dying: Our Town in the 21st Century on YouTube
Related: Thornton Wilder Papers
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum on Vimeo
Related: Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe Archive