Film & Video Reference Sources & Information

General

Meta-guides to Film & Video Resources on the Web

American Communication Association

Cinema Sites

Cinemedia

Links to over 18,000 media-related sites--preportedly the largest media meta-site on the web

Computers and Audiovisual Resources in History (Tennessee Tech)

A large array of links to sites devoted to audio, visual, graphic, museum informatics, and digital text resources relevant to the study of history (very broadly defined)

Digital Librarian Movie Sites

A part of the enormous and enormously useful Digital Librarian (a librarian's choice of the best of the Web) site. A large, unclassified list of links to film sites, ejournals, databases, texts, organizations and institutions devoted to film.

Film.Com

A large commercial site that includes reviews, information about festivals, calendars of events, interviews and articles about popular film and video and movie clips.

Film Resources (Enzian Theater Web site)

Film Sites on the Web (via University of Iowa)

Flicker (alternative media site)

Freeality Internet Search -- Online Film Resources

A nifty page of search forms for various film-related databases (including AFI, Cinemachine, Cinemedia, E!-Online, film.com, Internet Movie Database, and more)

Media Education on the Internet (Florida Gulf Coast University)

Excellent compilation of sites (major and obscure) related to film, television, radio and other mass communication forms.

List of cinema/media journals(via University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Media-related Listserv and E-Journals (via the redoubtable Center for Instructional support, University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Media Listserv list (via UC Berkeley)

MCS Media and Communication Studies Site

Movies: On the Net

A gigantic cyber mish mash of links to hundreds of international sites dealing with the movies and the movie industry.

ScreenSite: Film & TV Resources

Take Two (Internet Guide to Film & TV)

Voice of the Shuttle

A massive humanities meta-site including devoted to the broad study of communications media of all types.

Searchable Film Databases

American Film Institute Catalog [Available to UCB users only]

The AFI Catalog provides comprehensive filmographic information on over 45,000 films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to 1910. The database includes approximately one million personal name entries - including more than 500,000 actor entries and 27,000 director entries.

All-Movie Guide

A searchable database which threatens to give the Internet Movie Database (see below) a run for its money. Provides credits, plot synopses, biographical information, and user-provided ratings. Browseable by genre, country, mood and other hooks.

Internet Movie Database (searchable database)

The non plus ultra of searchable online movie databases (recently acquired by Amazon.com)

Motion Picture Guide (via TVGen/TV Guide)

Database: 40,000+ titles and bios; 750,000+ brought to you by TV Guide. Don't go looking for information about D.W. Griffith...

Pacific Film Archives

Cinefiles is a growing collection of searchable, online reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library's (UC Berkeley) clippings files. The files contain documents from a broad range of sources covering world cinema, past and present. The Matrix Archive includes 175 illustrated exhibition pamphlets that include essays by art writers and curators along with exhibition checklists, artist profiles, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. The MATRIX Archive175 illustrated exhibition pamphlets that include essays by art writers and curators along with exhibition checklists, artist profiles, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. Generated as part of the MATRIX: Berkeley exhibition program, showcasing contemporary art for over 20 years. Online Multimedia Collection Guides are in-depth guides are comprised of object records and essays by curators and scholars including overviews and organization of collections, as well as artists biographies and historical context of their creation and collection. PFA Filmnotes Online are film notes from the PFA exhibition calendar, documenting awide range of types of films, including: foreign, independent, classic, and avant-garde cinema. This searchable text resource contains over 12,000 filmnotes written between 1979 and the present.

Asian Educational Media Service

The Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) is a program of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our mission is to promote understanding of Asian cultures and peoples and to assist teachers at all levels, from elementary schools to colleges and universities, and other individuals and groups, in learning and teaching about Asia. Includes reviews for some materials, as well as distribution information.

Latin American Video Archive (LAVA)

The Latin American Video Archives has been created with support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, and National Video Resources to facilitate the distribution of Latin American and U.S. Latino films and video in the United States.

Film History & Criticism

Art Historians' Guide to the Movies

The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Citations are arranged in (very) approximate chronological order of the artworks, not the movies.

Association Francaise de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinema

The Association Française de Recherche sur l'histoire du Cinéma is a non-profit organization whose membership includes most of the french film historians and some foreign scholars.

Chronophotographical Projections

Site devoted to proto-movies and sequential photography, including the works of such inventors as Augustin Le Prince, Eadweard Muybridge, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Includes animated examples.

Dead Media Project

From petroglyphs to the big multimedia boogaloo! One of the most ambitious media-related sites out there.

Motion Picture History (full-text from the E. Britannica)

UC users only

Film History & Criticism Sources in the UC Berkeley Libraries

Film 100

100 of the Most Influential People in the History of the Movies

GRAFICS Early Cinema Server

GRAFICS (Groupe de Recherche sur l'Avenement et la Formation des Institutions Cinematographique et Scenique = Research Group on the Beginnings and the Formation of the Cinema and Theatrical Institutions) is a research group at the University of Montreal. The server is dedicated to the publication of the results of GRAFICS faculty research, and is also intended as a platform for all those who are interested in early cinema.

History of Communication Media Technologies

The Hollywood Ten and the Hollywood Blacklist

Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Web Site

Media and Communications Studies

An excellent site authored by Daniel Chandler, media theory lecturer at University of Wales, devoted to a broad range of media studies and pop culture topics. Includes links to many full text articles and to other media studies sites.

Midnight Ramble

Site devoted to the history of early African American film.

Magic Machines (site developed by Russell Naughton)

Documents the development of the motion picture camera from antiquity to 1900. Information is drawn from the web, books, journals etc. including a number of late 19th century sources such as the archives of Royal Photographic Society.

Media pioneers (site developed by Russell Naughton)

Information on 180+ radio, television and cinema pioneers.

Modern Times

A superlative web site devoted to film history and film genres. Essays, photos, bibliographic and other information on topics including B-films, screwball comedy, film noir, race films (Midnight Ramble. Also includes links and information for selected film personalities.

Essays on media history (site developed by Russell Naughton)

The Rosebud Project (University of Maryland)

A site dedicated to the discipline of film studies and its component parts, film history, criticism, theory, and concepts & definitions. Includes news of events, festivals, and other relevant happenings.

Silent Movie Web site

Eadweard Muybridge sites:

Pacific Interactive site

Kingston Museum

Muybridge sites (via Alta Vista)

Lumiere Brothers sites:

First Picture Show (via Kino web site)

Lumiere site (via Atlierpix)

Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide

Motion Picture/Video Industry Information

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Cinemania Online (feature articles on current movies and the movie industry)

Feature articles on current movies and the movie industry. Also includes reviews of current popular films, gossip, lists, awards.

Documentary Films.NET

Founded in 1998, Documentary Films.Net is a response to a lack of information dealing with documentary films in any comprehensive manner in any one place. While documentary films are not the big budget films that Hollywood would like, they often have potential audiences that go unrealized. In our opinion many individuals would be fascinated by the documentary films that are being released and the subjects they cover, but even if a individual becomes interested in documentaries, his or her options are limited in how to explore this interest. This site attempts to be the source for viewers of documentary films.

Entertainment Law Resources

Mandy's Film & TV Directory

Reference resource for professional service-providers in film, TV and multimedia. Here you'll find detailed, up-to-date information about technicians, facilities and producers worldwide.

Mr. Show Biz

It's slick, it's rampantly unacademic, but it's infinitely loveable. A mixture of movie trivia, gossip, industry news and information, reviews, commentary and games concerning the latest and glossiest Hollywood has to offer. Wanna find out who Candace Bergen has dated in the last decade? You can get it here.

Film and Video Movie Reviews

Finding Film & Video Reviews (resources at UC Berkeley)

Cinemachine

Classic Movie Reviews

A fan site with fairly substantive and sensible reviews of films made in the 1920's and 1930's.

Movie Review Query Engine

Perhaps the best single search engine for locating full-text reviews online, including reviews in journals and newspapers, use groups, and other miscellanea. Depth of chronological coverage varies.

Film.Com Reviews

Infoseek Movie Review page

QuickCheck (links to movie reviews in newspapers)

Mr. Cranky

Curmudgeonly commentary and Hollywood flambé

Yahoo Movie Review page

Web Sites Related to TV Broadcast Programming

Scripts and Transcripts

TV Link

An exceptionally rich meta-site devoted to broadcast and cable TV and related topics.

Current

A newspaper that covers public broadcasting and public radio in the US

BBC

CNN

Discovery Channel

PBS

POV (Point of View)

Public Affairs Video Archive (C-SPAN)

Vanderbilt Television News Archives

An extraordinarily useful, searchable database of information regarding materials in the Vanderbilt TV News Archives. The Archive began taping the evening news broadcasts of the three major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, on August 5, 1968. This collection has been abstracted with story level descriptions. The Abstracts can be browsed by date or searched. The search returns specific items and the complete show.

Yahoo -- Television Station Sites

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Scripts & Transcripts

Drew's Script-O-Rama

Scripts (via Movie-Page)

Journal Graphics TV News Transcripts (via CARL)

Nightline (ABC) transcripts

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Radio Stuff

Online Audiofiles listing

Airwaves MediaWeb

Interesting meta-site to resources related to radio broadcasting

National Public Broadcasting Archives

National Public Radio (NPR)

Pacifica Radio

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Exhibits, Special Collections,
and Other Cool Media Miscellany

American Film Institute

Library of American Broadcasting (University of Maryland)

Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Web Site

National Film Preservation Board/National Film Registry

National Film Preservation Foundation

Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University)

Omnibus Eye (Dept. of Radio/TV/Film Northwestern University

Pomona College Visual Literacy Project

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Journals

List of Film & TV Journals (via ScreenSite)

List of Online Film and Media Studies Journals(via Senses of Cinema online journal)

Bright Lights Film Journal

Wide Angle (via Project Muse -- UC Berkeley users only)

Cinemascope

Online version of a new Toronto-based film 'zine, latest issue has a wealth of articles on '90s cinema.

CinemaSpace (UC Berkeley)

Current (coverage of issues related to public broadcasting)

E! Online

Continuum

Practically the entire contents of Murdoch University's (Western Australia) Continuum cultural studies journal, posted on the Web.

Film and Philosophy (Hanover (Indiana) College)

Film Comment

Selected current and past articles available online.

Filmmaker: The Magazine of Independent Film

Film Feature Forum (Assn. of European Film & Media Journals)

Hollywood Reporter

Images: A Journal of Film & Popular Culture

IndieWire: Newswire for Independent Film Making, Distribution, & Exhibition

Journal of Religion and Film (University of Nebraska/Omaha)

L'Art du Cinema

Kinoeye

Kinoeye is a fortnightly internet journal which examines the "fringes" of European film-making. This includes geographic fringes (such as central and eastern Europe), genre fringes and film explorations of the social and political implications of integrating Europe's marginalised regions.

Senses of Cinema

Screening the Past: An Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History

24 Frames Per Second

Wide Angle (via Project Muse -- UC Berkeley users only)

Silents Majority (On-line Journal of Silent Film)

Variety

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Associations, Organizations, Projects

Film, Video, and Television Resources on the World Wide Web: A Highly Selective Guide for Independent Filmmakers

Awards, Festival and Shows