Media Databases and Audio-Video Search

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Altavista
Multilingual search capabilities for audio and video.
Art on Film Online
A clearinghouse for information about film, video, CD-ROM and other interactive productions on fine arts, architecture, photography, decorative arts, and related topics.
Blinksx.tv Video Search
Search for TV news clips from ESPN, BBC, ABC News, Fox News, C-Span. Features include conceptual searches, transcripts, smart folders.

Complete Index to World Film Since 1895
A searchable film index of over 300,000 films, compiled by Alan Goble. Particularly strong with foreign language and short films.
Lumerias
A new video search engine uses keyword search of YouTube, DailyMotion, and the Web in general.
OAIster
A union catalog of digital resources in text, audio, images and video from over 1,000 contributors worldwide.
Snipp.tv Search
An innovative multimedia search engine designed to search for video and audio files in which the search term was either actually pronounced or written.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The catalog of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one of the largest collections of media materials in the United States, second only to the Library of Congress.

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