White Water on the North Fork Payette River, Idaho

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Title: High Flow on the North Fork Payette River, Idaho.

Description: Field measurements at about 4;00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at gage 13246000, North Fork Payette River near Banks, Idaho. Measured discharge was at 7,500 cfs. Beginning the weekend of June 3-4, the Payette rose quickly to above flood stage. The peak of record for this gage is 8,830 cfs, recorded May 11, 1947.

Location: Banks, ID, USA. Date Taken: 6/9/2010 Length: 1:05 Video Producer/Videographer: John Wirt , U.S. Geological Survey.

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Keywords: White Water; Payette River; Idaho; U.S. Geological Survey
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To The Colors

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To the Color is a bugle call to render honors to the nation. It is used when no band is available to render honors, or in ceremonies requiring honors to the nation more than once. To the Color commands all the same courtesies as the National Anthem.

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Keywords: Bugle Calls; National Anthem. To The Colors
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Deepwater Horizon Fire

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NEW ORLEANS - Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors April 21, 2010. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew.

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Keywords: Deepwater Horizon Fire; gulf oil spill
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God Bless America

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Music performed by: The Marine Band Parris Island.

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On October 28, 1915, the Department of the Navy officially transferred Marine Corps Recruit Training from Norfolk, Virginia to Parris Island, South Carolina. Among the first 750 Marines sent to Parris Island was the Depot’s first Band Master, Sergeant William Gauer. Along with the Drum Major, Sgt Anton Schnichowski, and a group of Marine Musicians, the Parris Island Marine Band was formed. Prior to the forming of this Band, musicians were being trained in their individual bands throughout the fleet. A field music school was established at Parris Island to train buglers, who were still being used for calls and signals. Musicians also doubled as Markmanship Instructors, Close Combat Instructors, and also provided support for various units on the Depot.

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Keywords: God Bless America
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History of the Battle of Midway VIDEO

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JUNE 4TH, 1942 - SIX MONTHS AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR - JAPAN ATTEMPTED TO INVADE HAWAII WITH AN ATTACK ON MIDWAY ATOLL.

MIDWAY WOULD GIVE JAPAN ACCESS TO HAWAII, HOME OF U.S. PACIFIC FLEET AND A POSSIBLE OUTPOST TO WATCH ANY FUTURE THREAT BY THE U.S.

JAPAN'S PLAN WAS TO LURE U.S. CARRIERS SOUTH OF MIDWAY, WHILE A JAPANESE CARRIER FORCE SURPRISED THEM FROM THE NORTH.

JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE LED THEM TO BELIEVE ONLY TWO CARRIERS WOULD BE AT MIDWAY AT THE TIME, USS HORNET AND USS ENTERPRISE.

U.S. INTELLIGENCE HAD BROKEN THE JAPANESE NAVAL CODE. INTEL COULD DETERMINE EXACTLY WHEN THE ATTACK WOULD TAKE PLACE, AND PREDICT THE LOCATION OF THE PLANNED ATTACK.

REAR ADMIRAL RAYMOND SPRUANCE COMMANDED TASK FORCE 16, FORMED AROUND HORNET AND ENTERPRISE.

USS YORKTOWN, DAMAGED EARLIER IN BATTLE, WAS RUSHED THROUGH YARD REPAIRS. REAR ADMIRAL FRANK JACK FLETCHER COMMANDED TASK FORCE 17, FORMED AROUND YORKTOWN.

THE THREE-DAY BATTLE BEGAN WITH U.S. ARMY BOMBERS, AND U.S. MARINE CORPS TORPEDO PLANES AND DIVE BOMBERS LEAVING MIDWAY TO ATTACK THE APPROACHING ENEMY.

U.S. CARRIERS AND AIRCRAFT SUNK FOUR OF JAPAN'S CARRIERS, A HEAVY CRUISER, AND THREE DESTROYERS. THEY ALSO SHOT DOWN AN ESTIMATED 291 AIRCRAFT.

THE UNITED STATES LOST USS YORKTOWN, USS HAMMANN AND 145 AIRCRAFT BEFORE THE BATTLE WAS OVER.

THANKS TO AMERICAN SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE, AIRCRAFT CARRIER TACTICS, AND DETERMINATION AND COURAGE OF PILOTS AND CREWS, THE UNITED STATES HANDED JAPAN A DEFEAT.

THE VICTORY OF THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY WAS THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND THE POWER OF SEA-BORNE AIRCRAFT.

MIDWAY HIGHLIGHTED THE HEROES OF THE U.S. MILITARY, AND SET THE STAGE FOR THE CARRIER-BASED NAVY OF TODAY.

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Producer: U.S. Navy News Service
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Battle of Midway; PEARL HARBOR; USS HORNET; USS ENTERPRISE; RAYMOND SPRUANCE; DIVE BOMBERS; USS YORKTOWN; U.S. Navy.
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Wolves in Glacier National Park VIDEO

Title: Wolves in Glacier National Park. Description: Eight wolves walk past a bear rub tree in Glacier National Park. Location: Glacier National Park, MT, USA. Date Taken: 8/28/2006 Video Producer/Videographer: J.Stetz / A.Macleod , U.S. Geological Survey.

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From the USGS Northern Divide Bear Project, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center.

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Black America Edison Concert Band 1899

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1895 "Black America," by Harry H. Zickel leader of the Zickel Orchestra of Detroit.


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Artist/Composer: Edison Concert Band
Keywords: Edison Concert Band

Frankenstein (1910)

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Frankenstein is the 1910 film made by Edison Studios, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as the Monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.

Shot in three days, it was filmed at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City.

This is Edison's COMPLETE 1910 silent Frankenstein film.
This movie is part of the collection: Silent Films
Producer: Thomas Edison
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Edison; Silent; Horror; Frankenstein

From The Edison Kinetogram:

Frankenstein, a young student, is seen bidding his sweetheart and father goodbye, as he is leaving home to enter a college in order to study the sciences. Shortly after his arrival at college he becomes absorbed in the mysteries of life and death to the extent of forgetting practically everything else.

His great ambition is to create a human being, and finally one night his dream is realized. He is convinced that he has found a way to create a most perfect human being that the world has ever seen. We see his experiment commence and the development of it. To Frankenstein's horror, instead of creating a marvel of physical beauty and grace, there is unfolded before his eyes and before the audience an awful, ghastly, abhorrent monster.

As he realizes what he has done Frankenstein rushes from the room, only to have the misshapen monster peer at him through the curtains of his bed. He falls fainting to the floor, where he is found by his servant, who revives him.

After a few weeks' illness, he returns home, a broken, weary man, but under the loving care of father and sweetheart he regains his health and strength and begins to take a less morbid view of life. In other words, the story of the film brings out the fact that the creation of the monster was only possible because Frankenstein had allowed his normal mind to be overcome by evil and unnatural thoughts. His marriage is soon to take place. But one evening, while sitting in his library, he chances to glance in the mirror before him and sees the reflection of the monster which has just opened the door of his room. All the terror of the past comes over him and, fearing lest his sweetheart should learn the truth, he bids the monster conceal himself behind the curtain while he hurriedly induces his sweetheart, who then comes in, to stay only a moment. The monster, who is following his creator with the devotion of a dog, is insanely jealous of anyone else. He snatches from Frankenstein's coat the rose which his sweetheart has given him, and in the struggle throws Frankenstein to the floor, here the monster looks up and for the first time confronts his own reflection in the mirror. Appalled and horrified at his own image he flees in terror from the room. Not being able, however to live apart from his creator, he again comes to the house on the wedding night and, searching for the cause of his jealousy, goes into the bride's room. Frankenstein coming into the main room hears a shriek of terror, which is followed a moment after by his bride rushing in and falling in a faint at his feet. The monster then enters and after overpowering Frankenstein's feeble efforts by a slight exercise of his gigantic strength leaves the house.

When Frankenstein's love for his bride shall have attained full strength and freedom from impurity it will have such an effect upon his mind that the monster cannot exist. The monster, broken down by his unsuccessful attempts to be with his creator, enters the room, stands before a large mirror and holds out his arms entreatingly. Gradually, the real monster fades away, leaving only the image in the mirror. A moment later Frankenstein himself enters. As he stands directly before the mirror he see's the image of the monster reflected instead of his own. Gradually, however, under the effect of love and his better nature, the monster's image fades and Frankenstein sees himself in his young manhood in the mirror. His bride joins him, and the film ends with their embrace, Frankenstein's mind now being relieved of the awful horror and weight it has been laboring under for so long.

My Old Kentucky Home by The Edison Concert Band (1909)

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"My Old Kentucky Home" originally titled "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night!", and sometimes also titled "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" is the state song of Kentucky. It was published by Stephen Foster in 1853 and was adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly as the official state song on March 19, 1928.



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Artist/Composer: Edison Concert Band
Keywords: My Old Kentucky Home; Edison Concert Band; 1909
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Boatswain's Calls Bosun's Pipe Mess Call

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A boatswain's call is a pipe used on naval ships by a boatswain. It is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "bosun's call".

Historically the boatswain's call was used to pass commands to the crew when a voice could not be heard over the sounds of the sea. Because of its high pitch, it could be heard over the activities of the crew and bad weather.



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Artist/Composer: United States Navy Personnel Command
Keywords: Piping; Bosun's Pipe; boatswain's mate; pipe; navy
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Northern Elephant Seal Video

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Northern Elephant Seal Video, In 2004, the Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center produced a DVD entitled "Science Behind the Scenery."

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While sailing along the Pacific coast in the 1800s, a whale and seal hunter named Charles Scammon reported seeing northern elephant seals from Baja California in Mexico to Point Reyes in California. Sharing the fate of many of the oceans' great whales, the elephant seals were hunted to the brink of extinction for their oil-rich blubber. One bull elephant seal would yield nearly 25 gallons of oil. Though we don't know exactly how many northern elephant seals were alive before the 20th Century, it has been estimated that fewer than 1,000 northern elephant seals existed by 1910. In 1922, the Mexican government banned hunting, followed shortly thereafter by the United States government. Since then, the population of northern elephant seals has recovered at an average rate of six percent per year. Today, thanks to government protection and the seals' distant lives at sea, the worldwide population has grown to an estimated 150,000 seals.

After being absent for more than 150 years, elephant seals returned to the sandy beaches on the rocky Point Reyes Headlands in the early 1970s. In 1981, the first breeding pair was discovered near Chimney Rock. Since then, researchers have found that the colony is growing at a dramatic annual average rate of 16 percent. When severe storms occurred in 1992, 1994, and 1998, many pups were killed. During the El Niño winter of 1998, storms and high tides washed away approximately 85% of the 350 young pups before they had learned to swim. Nevertheless, the Point Reyes elephant seal population is between 1,500 and 2,000. Fanning out from their initial secluded spot, the seals have expanded to popular beaches, causing concern for both their safety and that of their human visitors.

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Producer: National Park Service
Audio/Visual: sound
Keywords: Elephant Seals; National Park Service; Point Reyes
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Funeral March by Frédéric Chopin

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Frédéric Chopin March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849, was a Polish composer and pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw.

Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 mainly in 1839 at Nohant near Chateauroux in France, the third movement, which comprises the funeral march may have been composed as early as 1837.



Recorded by The Edison Concert Band in 1906

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Artist/Composer: The Edison Concert Band
Keywords: Chopin; Funeral March; Edison Concert Band; 1906
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game sung by Edward Meeker in 1908 on a phonograph cylinder by Edison recordings.

The words were written in 1908 by vaudeville star Jack Norworth, who while riding a subway train, was inspired by a sign that said "Baseball Today — Polo Grounds". The words were set to music by Albert Von Tilzer.

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Katie Casey was baseball mad,
Had the fever and had it bad.
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou1
Katie blew.
On a Saturday her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go
To see a show, but Miss Kate said "No,
I'll tell you what you can do:"

[Chorus]

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.

Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names.
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along,
Good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:

[repeat Chorus]

1 The term "sou", now obscure, was at the time common slang for a low-denomination coin.

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Artist/Composer: Ed Meeker
Keywords: ed meeker; baseball
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Rollin' and Tumblin' Hambone Willie Newbern

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Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio. Keywords: opensource audio; blues; delta blues; roots; 78; mono. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues"

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Hambone Willie Newbern (1899-1947) Blues musician from the Brownsville, Tennessee area along Tennessee State Route 19. He is said to have played with Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes in the 1920s and '30s. He recorded one of the earliest known versions of the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'" in 1929. Newbern was beaten to death in a prison brawl, around 1947 Hambone Willie Newbern

Recorded in 1929, this is the earliest recorded version of the blues classic. Unfortunately Hambone Willie Newburn was known more for his temper then guitar playing. He died in a prison riot in 1947. Hambone Willie Newburn – “Roll And Tumble Blues”

Alice in Wonderland (1903)

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Alice in Wonderland (1903), is a British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, it was the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside of White Rabbit's home, reaching for help through a window.

Only one copy of the film is known to exist with a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive). The British Film Institute has partially restored the movie and its original film tinting on February 24, 2010.

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Directed by: Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow
Written by: Lewis Carroll (book), Cecil M. Hepworth
Starring: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Mrs. Cecil Hepworth, Norman Whitten
Cinematography: Cecil M. Hepworth
Distributed by: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Edison Manufacturing Company, Kleine Optical Company
Release date(s): October 17, 1903
Running time: approx. 8:19 minutes
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language: Silent film

This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films
Director: Cecil Hepworth
Producer: Cecil Hepworth
Production Company: Hepworth Manufacturing Co.
Audio/Visual: silent, b/w
Keywords: Alice in Wonderland, silents, BFI, British Film Institute, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton, Disney, Silent Movie, Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Hole Queen of Hearts, Frog Footman, Mad Hatter, March Hare.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 14

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The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.



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Performance Licence: The first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No. 14.

It was converted from Image: String Quartet No. 14, movement 1.mid, which is itself from the Mutopia project, number 245, specifically k387-score-1.mid from k387-mids.zip. Mutopia credits "Breitkopf und Härtel (1882)" as their source.

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Artist/Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keywords: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; String Quartet No. 14; Classical
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The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

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Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. This MP3 (or other media file) is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) and that most commonly runs for a period of 70 years from December 31st of that year.

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This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: New York Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Airliner Crash

Airliner Crash MPEG 4.80 mb, Airliner Crash 512Kb MPEG4 2.12 mb, Airliner Crash Ogg Video 1.88 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. . animated gif, 7 frames

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) flight video montage. Movie Number: EM-0004-02. Movie Date: 01 Dec 1984.

Description: The Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) was a joint research project by NASA and the FAA to test a survivable aircraft impact using a remotely piloted Boeing 720 aircraft.

The tail camera movie is one shot running 27 seconds. It shows the impact from the perspective of a camera mounted high on the vertical stabilizer, looking forward over the fuselage and wings.

Keywords: Controlled Impact Demonstration; CID; Boeing 720; Edwards Air Force Base; Rogers Dry Lake; Dryden Flight Research Facility; NASA; FAA; anti-misting kerosene; AMK; impact survivability; Fitzhugh (Fitz) Fulton

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This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: NASA
Audio/Visual: silent
Keywords: Airliner Crash; Boeing; NASA
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Gray noise

Gray noise VBR MP3 133 kb, Gray noise OGG format 158 kb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

An attempt at 10 seconds of inverse A-weighted "gray noise". Generated by Adobe Audition, by plugging in values from the weighting filter equations in the FFT filter. Normalized to −1 dB.

Possibly not mathematically perfect due to Audition or encoding. Source: Created by User: Omegatron using Adobe Audition.



This sound file is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Image Summary: Spectrum analysis of uncompressed source for 10 seconds of gray noise file. Note the logarithmic frequency scale. The analysis was done using Audacity, and plotting with gnuplot. Transparency was touched up in GIMP to make the graph background pure white.

Image Licensing: I Omegatron, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible: I Omegatron grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: Omegatron
Keywords: Gray noise
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)

Greensleeves VBR MP3 4.8 mb, Greensleeves OGG format 2.97 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Tune: Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca. A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580.

Lyrics: What Child Is This? is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865 by hymm writer William Chatterton Dix, at the age of twenty-nine. It was later set to the traditional English tune "Greensleeves"



Since its formation in March 1946, the Field Band has appeared in all fifty states and in more than thirty countries on four continents. The organization's four performing components, the Concert Band, the Soldiers' Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors, and The Volunteers, each travel over 100 days annually. Tours include formal public concerts, school assemblies, educational outreach programs, festivals, and radio and television appearances.

Performance Licence: (Greensleeves by the Soldiers' Chorus) This site is provided as a public service by The United States Army Field Band. This site is intended to be used by the public for viewing and retrieving information only. Information presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain, in this case Tune, 1580 and Lyrics, 1865.

This MP3 (or other media file) is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Tune, 1580 and Lyrics, William Chatterton Dix, September 9, 1898 and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31st of that year.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: The United States Army Field Band
Keywords: Greensleeves; hymn; Christmas carol
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Giuseppe Verdi Overture to Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc)

Overture to Giovanna d’Arco VBR MP3 12 mb, Overture to Giovanna d’Arco OGG format 5.57 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Giuseppe Verdi Overture to Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc February 15, 1845) an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The opera, Verdi's seventh, had its first performance at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 15, 1845.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Artist/Composer: U.S. Marine Corps Band
Keywords: Overture, Giovanna d’Arco, Giuseppe Verdi, opera, Joan of Arc
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Allegro in C Major by Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

Allegro in C Major VBR MP3 5.42 mb, Allegro in C Major OGG format 1.71 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Allegro in C Major by Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848). Donizetti was a prolific composer. He composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces.

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Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.

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This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: USAF Band
Keywords: Gaetano Donizetti
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Day The Earth Stood Still - trailer (1951)

The Day The Earth Stood Still 512Kb MPEG4 format 9.85 mb The Day The Earth Stood Still MPEG2 165 mb. The Day The Earth Stood Still OGV format 9.14 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 5 frames

Many, most, trailers for movies released before 1964 are in the Public Domain because they were never separately copyrighted. The law at the time granted the owner 28 years to file a copyright registration.

The trailer is published (run in a theater) before the movie itself is published. Thus, the trailer requires a separate copyright, and the scenes contained in the trailer are in Public Domain.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Produced by: Julian Blaustein
Written by: Edmund H. North, Harry Bates (story)
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Frances Bavier
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: Leo Tover
Editing by: William H. Reynolds
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date(s): September 28, 1951
Running time: 92 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $1,200,000
Gross revenue: $1,850,000

This movie is part of the collection: SabuCat Movie Trailers
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w

Hallelujah Chorus Messiah Handel

This Version Edited by sookietex, hiss removed, bass boosted, amplified and stereo channeled added with Audacity. Hallelujah Chorus VBR MP3 3.40 mb, Hallelujah Chorus OGG format 1.71 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Original Version from NPS Hallelujah Chorus VBR MP3 2.55 mb

Hallelujah chorus - Messiah, Performed by: Oratorio Chorus, Composed by: George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759). Record format: Edison Diamond Disc, Matrix number: 4433-A-1-1 (6-1). Recording date: 1916, Release number: 80292-R, Release date: May 1916. NPS object catalog number: EDIS 43552.





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Messiah (HWV 56) is an English oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel, The libretto by Charles Jennens is drawn entirely from the King James and Great Bibles, and interprets the Christian doctrine of the Messiah, Composed in London during the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin, Ireland on 13 April 1742,

George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759), was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England. Born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: National Park Service (NPS)
Keywords: Hallelujah Chorus; Messiah; George Frideric Handel; Edison
Creative Commons license: Public Domain