LibGuides: Finding Images + Video: For Faculty

Kanopy - Requesting Licenses.

CalArts Faculty Only: You can request a license for Kanopy titles.

Check the complete Kanopy catalog and submit a license request.
- Go to https://www.kanopy.com/
- Scroll and the choose ‘Browse Movies’
- Browse or Search for specific titles
- Email the titles that you want licensed for your classes to: kbaxter@calarts.edu or abasen@calarts.edu

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Video streaming database of over 26,000 films from 800 top producers such as Criterion Collection, Canyon Cinema, Les Blank, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, etc. Films range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, to classics and blockbuster movies. Faculty are able to request the Library license streaming films to support their teaching and research. Films are licensed for one year only and cost $150.00 per title, so please carefully considering your requests. To see the full catalog of titles available go to kanopy.com. Please contact filmservices@calarts.edu if you have any questions.

CalArts Faculty Only: You can request a license for Docuseek titles. To request titles email: filmservices@calarts.edu

CalArts Faculty Only: You can request a license Swank Digital Campus

Alternatively, you can email filmservices@calarts.edu with your title request

Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
With over 25,000 films, documentaries and TV shows, Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus. Swank provides content from the world's top studios. CalArts Library licenses a limited number of titles.

CalArts Faculty Only: You can request a license to videos in the EAI - Electronic Arts Intermix database

Please email filmservices@calarts.edu with titles you would like the Library to license. T

Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming This link opens in a new window
EAI’s Educational Streaming Service is a unique subscription-based resource that transforms EAI’s Online Catalogue into a “digital textbook.” Almost 1,200 titles by 65 artists are currently available for streaming via this digital delivery platform.

Want detailed instructions on how to utilize these databases for Instruction?

Check out this informational guide put together by the Film Services Managers!

Looking for copyright and use information?

Refer to the Copyright + Fair Use section of the CalArts Library Online Teaching Toolkit!