Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.
Today's high-resolution photos and videos are increasingly hogging storage, too.
This is a concept for a platform that will post an ongoing series of short documentary videos from research labs around the U.S. These videos will feature true-life, human stories of young scientists, especially women and minorities, who can provide inspiring role models for the next generation.
Townsend is world class, but Scotland's shortcomings - if you watch the videos - have been made so much worse by problems in the backs.
According to Ostroff, the three-year-old network--a joint venture of CBS and Time Warner's Warner Brothers--has had more than 200 million videos streamed on CW.com, Gossip Girl has nearly 1.5 million fans on Facebook and people are tweeting about the CW once a minute.
The device is popular among iTunes video addicts, but don't plan on using AppleTV to watch home videos and studio-made videos from other services, including Amazon's.
Web pages, apps, videos - it's all clear on the vibrant, high resolution Super AMOLED Advanced display.
First, Google's speech-recognition technology lets it scan videos for cues such as laughter.
While it's currently an Apple-centric affair, support for DSLRs and other hi-res cameras (by uploading videos to the company's website for processing) and other mobile platforms is in the pipeline.
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The 33-year-old born-again Christian's bizarre internet home videos have attracted a cult following that could change the face of golf forever.
"With user-generated videos, there's no way to ensure that your brand will be next to something that you will want to be associated with, " Kris Oser, of eMarketer, said.
The use of pictures certainly seems the most intuitive method for navigating around videos -- there's a definite learning curve here, and it's hard enough to select pictures -- we couldn't really imagine toggling through small text.
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Exhibitions range from experimental videos to Sol LeWitt's saturated-color wall drawings.
Apart from quick cuts, there aren't any editing options, and storage and archival is pretty much up to you -- videos are auto-sorted into folders by date on import, but there's no search.
The outrage spawned a social media-fed genre of viral videos and stories about poorly handled TSA scans -- like Savannah Barry's -- and grope-y pat-downs.
"People reading novels by Canadians or watching the British film The Full Monty or seeing non-American music videos on MTV or non-American reporting on CNN, " insists the Encarta's editor-in-chief, Kathy M.
By July the rumors had turned into a full-speed prerelease hype machine complete with a goofy spokes-model appearing in videos on Tapwave's Web site.
The device would stream music wirelessly to speakers throughout a person's home and might also be able to stream Web-based videos to TV screens.
Where Reagan used television, Obama should use the Internet, Lewis said, pointing to the president-elect's dissemination of his weekly addresses as YouTube videos as one example.
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In addition to AOL original content from properties like Moviefone, Engadget and HuffPost Entertainment, the app will feature high-definition videos from the AOL On Network's premium content partners like Reuters, AP, BBC, Newsy, Entertainment Tonight, Sugar, E!
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Instead of waiting for the divisions to develop the brand, Hampton has done it himself--convincing the consumer products unit to come out with hand puppets and getting Buena Vista's help in securing Baby Einstein videos prime positions at Wal-Mart.
Verizon Wireless, for example, has exclusive deals to stream videos from Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) YouTube and content from the Walt Disney Co.
On top of that, the new iPad's sharper screen will encourage some users to view videos in high-definition, which uses 2 gigabytes an hour on a 4G connection, according to Verizon.
The WiFi meanwhile, adheres to the company's whole "shoot-and-share" motto, letting to send videos directly to Facebook and the like.
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This year's attendees are once again invited to nominate their favourite feline-themed viral videos to be played on a big screen at the event.
When Jason asked questions about Michael's changing face in the videos, I showed him the beautiful brown-skinned, bright-eyed little boy who grew up in my family's living room.
Unlike previous embedded YouTube players, which simply streamed videos, these new tools would allow users on other sites to search the YouTube inventory, comment on and rate videos, and even upload clips to YouTube's servers--essentially everything that users would have done on YouTube's site.
Unlike in the U.S., in China online video monetizes roughly the same on user-generated videos and premium licensed videos, Wang says.
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