Blues (Archives): Video/Film
The Blues Archive contains commercial documentaries and concert footage as well as non-commercial footage of blues festivals, house parties, and oral histories.
While archival holdings contain footage on various film stock, BETA, and U-matic tapes, user access copies of material are available on DVD and VHS.
The majority of video available to researchers can be found through the library catalog. To limit your search to videos in the Blues Archive, use the catalog's advanced search, and limit the location to "Special Collections Blues," and the material type to "Videos/Films." Other videos can be searched in an inventory located in Special Collections (an online version will be made available soon).
Blues Video
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Blues Video CollectionThese mostly non-commercial videocassettes document various blues festivals and other musical events, document interviews with blues musicians and scholars from unreleased television programs, and provide user access copies of some unreleased master footage.
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Fred Jackson Collection289 video tapes of blues performances around New York, filmed by Fred Jackson.
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Alan Lomax CollectionTwenty-six DVDs of digitized footage from one of Alan Lomax's later trips to Mississippi (1978-1985) documenting blues, gospel, and African American fife and drum traditions. Much of this is footage that never appeared in Lomax's film The Land Where the Blues Began. Inventory available in the Archives.
