Reference and Resources

Film & Video Databases

• Main Page: The Internet Movie Database 
• IAll Movie Guide(an alternative to Internet Movie Database)
• TV Guide Movie Database
• AFI: American Film Institute Catalog:  information on all American films, 1893 to 1970 (except 1951 to 1960), with plot summaries.
• Gay & Lesbian Movie Database + more at PopcornQ
• Ovid (experimental film & video)
• Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (Center for Pacific Studies, Univ. of Hawaii)

Scripts

Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)
Drew's Script-O-Rama
SimplyScripts

Want to buy a movie?

• Amazon
• Facets (video & DVD +  more)
• Movies Unlimited 

Libraries & Archives

• Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives (Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress Motion Picture Reading Room
• National Archives & Records
• SIO (Scripps Institution of Oceanography Film Archives)
• Herrick Library, (Center for Motion Picture Study / Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Click on - The Academy, for links to the Herrick Library & the study center)
• Vanderbilt Television News Archives
• National Public Broadcasting Archives (Univ of Maryland)
• National Film Board of Canada
• AFI (American Film Institute. Including their online cinema).
• Media Resources Center Entrypage (Berkeley's Media Resource's page).
• Black Film Center & Archive (Indiana University).
• Early Motion Pictures Home Page (American Memory, Library of Congress).
• George Eastman House
• UCLA Film & Televison Archive
• American Museum of the Moving Image
• Pacific Film Archive (see Collections & Research. Especially useful are their PFA Filmnotes & CineFiles).
• The Smithsonian Institution Home Page (General reference & information).
• Human Studies Film Archive (Ethnographic Archive , Smithsonian Institution)
• DEFA, (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) at the Univ of Massachusetts-Amherst.
• Footage Net, ( Stock, archival, & news footage network)
• FotoSearch, (stock & archival photos and footage)

Media Studies Resources

• SCREENsite: Film and TV Studies (Festivals, film programs, film/TV production, links,& much more).
• CineMedia (AFI's meta site. Everything you could want).
• Film Studies Resources on the Internet (Guide complied by Sharon Nuttycombe & Gail Mazure).
• American Communication Assoc's film studies links
• Cinema Sites(More links to the media world. Compiled by David Augsburger).
• Movies on the Net (2000) (Huge collection of film links.  Rather unselective.  Not all links active)
• Readings in Media & Society (Excellant list compiled by Murray Pomerance at Ryerson Polytechnic Univ.)
• Flicker (Alternative Cinema. Compiled by Scott Stark).
• H-Film (Humanities online's film site.)
• Film-Philosophy, (An interesting UK site with, among other material, bio's & filmographies on selected filmmakers).
• The Greatest Films (Classic American Film site by Tim Dirks)

Media Literacy

• Community Learning Network
• Center For Media Literacy

Television Resources

• Peabody Award Archive, (Univ. of Georgia Libraries.)
• Vanderbilt Television News Archives
• C-SPAN Archives (Purdue.)
• National Public Broadcasting Archives (Univ. of Maryland.)
• Classic TV Shows(info & to buy)
• UltimateTV, (everything you need to know about TV)
• TVLINK
• FIAT(Feration of Television Archives.)
• New Zealand Television Archive
• I Saw It On TV(A Guide To Broadcast Programming Sources. Clemens& Alcuin Libraries, Compiled by Corinne Smith.)
• VidiPax (Preservation & restoration of magnetic media.)

Europe

• FilmWeb (UK film site.)
• FIAF
• FOCAL(International commercial film/audiovisual libraries.)
• European AudioVisual Observatory (Focus point for information on European cinema, television, & video.)
• International Film Libraries (LC)

Latin America

• Latin America Cinema (A good gateway into Latin American cinema studies. Compiled by Gayle Williams at the Univ. of Georgia Libraries.)
• Latin American Video Archive (LAVA). (Online searchable database.)
• Entreextremos(cinema journal .)

Southeast Asia - Pacific

• SEAPAVAA, (Southeast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archives.)
• New Zealand Television Archive
• Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (Center for Pacific Studies Univ. of Hawaii)

Art

• The Kitchen
• Flicker ( very good site for experimental film & video)
• Canyon Cinema
• Program for ART on Film
• 235 Media ,(German site for European & American video.)
  
  Internet Movies sites

• The Sync
  American Memory
• Bit Screen
• NewVenue
• Atom Films
  Internet Archieve
• UndergroundFilm  
  
  

Copyright

• United States Copyright Office(Library of Congress)
• COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976, AS AMENDED
• Copyright -Media copyright in a nutshell & FVL policy, links to 1976 Copyright Law, & Berne Convention.
• The Copyright Website
• UCSD Libraries Copyright Taskforce site
• Copyright Chart(Professor Laura N. Gasaway, Univ. of  North Carolina)
• Copyright Term Extension Act
• CONFU, Conference on Fairuse.
• MultiMedia Fairuse Guidelines DocumentEndorsed by the Consortium of College & University Media Centers, but not by American Library Association, Visual Resource Association, & Association of Research Libraries. See CONFU's List of endorsing or rejecting organizations (appendix one).

Film Festivals

• International Film Festival Directory
• Film Festivals

Organizations & Professional Societies

• Society for Cinema Studies (Conferences, directories, jobs + all SCS information.)
• Film Forum, (New York's independent film program)
• Bay Area Video Coalition, (BAVC)
• University Film & Video Association (UFVA)
• San Diego Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers
• San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA)
• California Film Commission
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
• Motion Picture Association Of America(MPAA, including; theaterical economic review & industry stats)
• Society Of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
• American Society of Cinematographers
• Writers Guild of America
• FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives).
• AMIA - (Association Of Moving Image Archivists).
• SEAPAVAA, (Southeast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archives)
• NAMAC, (National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture).
• NFPF, (National Film Preservation Foundation)
• ASIFA, (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation, Professional society for animators)
• Artist's Rights Foundation
• ALA (American Library Association) ( For Information Technology/Copyright.)

Movie Studios + other useful Odds & Ends

• DVD (Every thing you wanted to know about DVD from alt.video.dvd newsgroup faq, compiled by Jim Taylor)
• Closed Captioning Web
• FCC (Federal Communication Commission)
• Altavista Looksmart (movie stats, box office...etc)
• Boxoffice Guru (Movie biz data)
• World Wide Boxoffice
• Movie Times (boxoffice, star saleries...etc)
• In Focus (A Baseline product that spotlights, film, entertainment news, reviews & profiles)
• UltimateMovies, (Llist of official sites for current releases)
• Hollywood HyperLink (Hollywood Reporter's links to the biz.)
• Turner Movie Classic
• American Movie Classic
• Theatre Historical Socity of America
• The Picture Palace (Grand old theatres in the UK)
• The Benton Foundations (information & links related to telecommunication policy and the communication industry)

Preservation

• National Film Preservation Board
• U.S. National Film Registry with links to each film's record.
• NFPF, (National Film preservation Foundation)
• AMIA - (Association Of Moving Image Archivists).
• George Eastman House (school for film & video preservation)
• WGBH's Universal Preservation Format site
• Kodak film stock edge codes (Vintage Films, UK)
• Film Formats (Vintage Films, UK)
• VidiPax (Preservation & restoration of magnetic media)
• ARCHIMEDIA, (A training network between several European film archives)
• Hollywood Vaults

Reviews

• Finding Reviews
• Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times)
• Movie Review Query Engine (Very good site for current film reviews from a wide range of magazines and journals.)
• Film Com Reviews
• NitrateOnline
• On Video (Reviews & Streamed Video Trailers compiled by Sean Axmaker)
• Boxoffice
• In Focus (A Baseline product that spotlights, film, entertainment news, reviews & profiles)

On-Line Journals

• Library of Congress, publication and resource page for film & video
• Film Comment
• Cinema Journal (Project Muse)
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Images: A Journal of Film & Popular Culture
• Ecola Newstand (collection of online film magazines)
• Wide Angle (Project Muse)
• Film & History ,An interdisciplinary journal of film & television studies
• Sreening The Past, International electronic journal of visual media & history. Published at La Trobe University, Australia.
• Filmmaker Online resourse for independant filmmakers.
• American Cinematographer
• Film & Philosophy
• EntreextremosLatin American cinema
• Silents Majority (On-line Journal of Silent Film)
• ScreenSite Electronic Journal List
• STROBE (published by UCLA's Film & Television Department)
• Hollywood Reporter
• Boxoffice
• Variety

 
 
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