Film & Video Reference Sources & Information

General

Meta-guides to Film & Video Resources on the Web

Cinema Sites

Cinemedia

Links to over 250,000 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.

Flicker (alternative media site)

MCS Media and Communication Studies Site

A superb site developed by Professor Daniel Chandler, University of Wales, devoted to media history and theory. Includes vast amount of useful information and full-text essays on an array of topics in film and mass communications studies.

ScreenSite: Film & TV Resources

Sponsored by The University of Alabama, the College of Communication and Information Sciences, and the Department of Telecommunication and Film. "ScreenSite emerged from a desire to provide access to film and television resources through the World Wide Web. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the study of film/TV. As opposed to some Web sites that take more of a fan's approach to the media, ScreenSite stresses the teaching and research of film and television and is designed for educators and students."

Voice of the Shuttle

A massive humanities meta-site developed at the University of California Santa Barbara and devoted to the broad study of communications media of all types.

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.

Cinema History: Films from the Silent Era

A general overview of early film history developed by Professor Robert E. Yahnke, University of Minnesota

The Hollywood Ten and the Hollywood Blacklist

Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Web Site

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 History Project

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

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.

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.

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

UC users only

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:

Kingston Museum

Muybridge sites (via Alta Vista)

Lumiere Brothers sites:

Lumiere site (via Atlierpix)

Lumiere site

Institut Lumiere (Lyon)

Clips of Lumiere films (George Eastman House)

Film Glossaries and Dictionaries

Internet Movie Database Glossary

AllMedia Guide Glossary

Film Terms (via GlossArtist)

Film Glossary (via Barnes and Noble)

Film Biographies

See also movie credits databases

Great Directors - A Critical Database (via Senses of Cinema)

Box Office Statistics

Sources of Box Office Grosses

Worldwide Box Office, 1899-2001

Box Office Report (weekly)

Showbiz Data

MovieWeb (weekly top 25; top 50 all-time high)

The Numbers (current and historical statistics)

Internet Movie Database (current and historical statistics)

Box Office Guru Latest box office reports, analysis, and forecasts. Also includes a database of box office figures, international grosses, and a release schedule.

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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

Script Crawler

Awesome Movie Scripts and Screenplays

Drew's Script-O-Rama

Scripts (via Movie-Page)

Classic Movie Scripts

Daily Script

Screentalk Script Gallery

Simply Scripts

Journal Graphics TV News Transcripts (via CARL)

Movie Scripts Archive

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Radio

Online Audiofiles listing

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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Awards, Festival and Shows

Academy Awards, 1926-1993 (via Internet Movie Database)

Film Festival List (via CineMedia)

The Film Festivals Server

Viewfinder (listing of national shows and awards)

Yahoo! - Entertainment:Movies and Films:Film Festivals