Tag: Open Culture
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Watch the First 2 Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
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in GeneralNot everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV certainly hoped it would…
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Keith Jarrett and the Koln Concert
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in GeneralHow Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975) (Open Culture)
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3,000 Best Free Movies on YouTube
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in GeneralA Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs. Not all these movies belong in the cheap-thrills bin. You’ll also find the work of celebrated auteurs like Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps), Stanley Kubrick (Fear and Desire, Barry Lyndon), Akira…
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Download 131,000 Historic Maps from the Huge David Rumsey Map Collection
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in GeneralDavid Rumsey Map Collection, whose more than 131,000 historical maps and related images are available to browse (or download) free online.