Tag: Open Culture
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Watch the First 2 Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
Not 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
How 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
A 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
David Rumsey Map Collection, whose more than 131,000 historical maps and related images are available to browse (or download) free online.