More YouTube movies

I have uploaded more short movies onto YouTube. With each new movie I am shuffling up the learning curve. By the time I have uploaded several dozen movies, I hope that they will be much more accomplished than my current efforts.

Here are the latest URLs:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzrZ0OyGmC8

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNN-PzSYP4

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeyzKcYb4GE

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrI3TtdCPUI

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyR2U_tyJVg

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QU1K0U0aoE

Movies 1 through 3 show my recording of animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. I recorded footage of many different animals there, including Tai Shan (coming soon by popular request from my daughter), the baby panda bear. As I progressively edit this material, I intend to upload it onto YouTube. In particular, I am concerned to ensure that no images of my daughter appear in a form that is capturable by people with malign intent. As she is, naturally, an important aspect of a 'home movie' of 'our holiday', I currently find the craft of editing a movie to be dauntingly demanding.

Movie 4 is my narration of verse by A.A. Milne. I was experimenting with using my webcam, but the video quality is not great. I have also been trying to work out how to construct something that approximates to an autocue so that I can look at the camera while speaking. Despite the fact that wielding a camcorder is remarkably easy, filming a performance while performing is rather more demanding.

Movie 5 is a collection of photographs of Boston, Massachusetts.

Movie 6 is a collection of photographs I have taken of Van Gogh paintings in the Smithsonian National Art Gallery, Washington DC; MoMA, New York; and the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

I am at a loss about how to give my movies a musical soundtrack without contravening copyright.