VISUAL MEDIA RESOURCES - IITS
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
INTERNET RESOURCES
FOR FILM STUDIES
Specific Subject Guides:
American Communications Association
http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/film.html
<http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/film.html> The American
Communication Association (ACA) is a not-for-profit organization, created to
enhance and promote the academic and professional study, research,
knowledge, criticism, teaching, exchange, and application of the basic
principles of human communication. The url is for their Film Studies area.
Cinemedia http://afi.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html
<http://afi.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html>
Film/media directory with 20,000 links
Screensite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/
<http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/>
International site related to the study of film and television
Cinema Sites (more consumer oriented) http://www.cinema-sites.com/
<http://www.cinema-sites.com/>
Comprehensive information in a variety of disciplines
Movies on the net (2000) http://gen.com/ani/moviemks.htm
<http://gen.com/ani/moviemks.htm>
Links to hundreds of international sites dealing with films and the film
industry. Custom searching also available for a charge
General Searchable Film Databases:
Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/ <http://us.imdb.com/>
The most comprehensive of searchable online movie databases (recently
acquired by Amazon.com)
All-Movie Guide http://AllMovie.com/ <http://AllMovie.com/>
A searchable database almost at par with the Internet Movie Database.
Provides credits, synopses, biographical information, and user-provided
ratings. Browseable by genre, country, mood and other hooks.
The Motion Picture Guide http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/cgi-bin/page.c
<http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/cgi-bin/page.c> Part of the TV Guide
database and schedules/listings. Data taken from The Motion Picture Guide,
Cinebooks' 23-volume reference work, and Ephraim Katz's comprehensive Film
Encyclopedia, this search database includes the cast, credits and reviews
for more than 30,000 movies released in the U.S. mostly in the sound
period, as well as filmographies and biographical information.
Freeality Internet Search - Online Film Resources
http://www.freeality.com/film.htm <http://www.freeality.com/film.htm>
14 search forms for various film-related databases including several of the
above
Libraries-Archives:
Repositories of Primary Sources (World Coverage)
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
<http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html>
Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives (LC Internet
Resources Page) http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html>
Library of Congress Catalog http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html>
Library of Congress General Motion Picture Site
gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/research/reading.rooms/motion.picture
<gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/research/reading.rooms/motion.picture>
Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Collections Site
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/mpixhome.html
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/mpixhome.html>
UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/default.html
<http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/default.html>
Pacific Film Archives http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/
<http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/>
American Archives of the Factual Film
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/aaff.html
<http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/aaff.html>
National Center for Jewish Film
http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/index.html
<http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/index.html>
Northeast Historic Film http://www.acadia.net/oldfilm/
<http://www.acadia.net/oldfilm/>
Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html
<http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html>
Haddon (online catalogue of archival ethnographic films before 1945)
http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html
<http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html>
National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca/E/index.html
<http://www.nfb.ca/E/index.html>
WPA Library (British Pathe News etc.) http://www.mpimedia.com/wpa/
<http://www.mpimedia.com/wpa/>
National Library of Canada http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ehome.htm
<http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ehome.htm>
The British Library http://www.bl.uk/ <http://www.bl.uk/>
Bibliotheque nationale de France http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/catalog/index.htm
<http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/catalog/index.htm> Museums:
American Museum of the Moving Image http://nyctourist.com/ammi.htm
<http://nyctourist.com/ammi.htm>
George Eastman House http://www.eastman.org/ <http://www.eastman.org/>
Museum of Modern Art http://12.3.56.5/menu.html <http://12.3.56.5/menu.html>
Museum of the Moving Image http://www.bfi.org.uk/museum/
<http://www.bfi.org.uk/museum/>
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/ <http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/>
Organizations/Associations:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences http://www.ampas.org/body.html
<http://www.ampas.org/body.html>
Artists' Rights Foundation http://www.artistsrights.org/
<http://www.artistsrights.org/>
Association of Moving Image Archivists http://www.amianet.org/
<http://www.amianet.org/>
American Society of Cinematographers http://www.cinematographer.com/
<http://www.cinematographer.com/>
Directors' Guild of America http://www.dga.org/dga-info/aboutdga.htm
<http://www.dga.org/dga-info/aboutdga.htm>
International Federation of Television Archives
http://www.nbr.no/fiat/fiat.html <http://www.nbr.no/fiat/fiat.html>
International Federation of Film Archives
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/FIAF/default.html
<http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/FIAF/default.html>
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture http://www.namac.org/
<http://www.namac.org/>
Canadian Communications Foundation
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/
<http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/>
Alliance for Canada's Audio-Visual Heritage
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/alliance/english/mission.html
<http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/alliance/english/mission.html>
American Film Institute http://www.afionline.org/home.html
<http://www.afionline.org/home.html>
The Motion Picture Association of America http://www.mpaa.org/home.htm
<http://www.mpaa.org/home.htm>
Film Studies Association of Canada
http://www.film.queensu.ca/FSAC/home.html
<http://www.film.queensu.ca/FSAC/home.html>
The Society for Film Studies http://www.CinemaStudies.org/
<http://www.CinemaStudies.org/>
University Film and Video Association http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/ufva/
<http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/ufva/>
Theatre Historical Society of America http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa/
<http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa/>
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers http://www.smpte.org/
<http://www.smpte.org/>
Copyright:
Motion Picture Studios, Copyright Holders and Commercial Services (LC
Internet Resources Page) Http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/studios.html
<Http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/studios.html>
Copyright links U.S. http://www.vra.oberlin.edu/copyright.html
<http://www.vra.oberlin.edu/copyright.html>
Film Studies, History and Criticism:
Alta Vista Translations
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate
<http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate> ?
Film/TV syllabi (as of 1996) http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/teach/syl/
<http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/teach/syl/>
Glossary of film and video terms http://www.sunsetpost.com/glossary.htm
<http://www.sunsetpost.com/glossary.htm>
Online film scripts http://www.script-o-rama.com/index.shtml
<http://www.script-o-rama.com/index.shtml>
Film.com http://www.film.com/about/ <http://www.film.com/about/>
Independent Film Criticism
Movie Review Query Engine (locating full-text reviews newspapers, magazines
etc.) http://www.mrqe.com/lookup <http://www.mrqe.com/lookup> ?
Women's Studies Film Reviews
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/
<http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/>
Women in Cinema (reference guide)
http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html
<http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html>
Black Eye on Film http://home.navisoft.com/bam/page2.htm
<http://home.navisoft.com/bam/page2.htm>
SOFIA (Study of Film as Internet Application) http://www.unl.ac.uk/sofia/
<http://www.unl.ac.uk/sofia/>
History of the Moving Image from Antiquity to 1900
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/MAGIC_MACHINES.html
<http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/MAGIC_MACHINES.html>
Association francaise de recherche sur l'histoire du cinema
http://www.sosi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHC.html
<http://www.sosi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHC.html>
GRAFICS Early Cinema site
http://grafics.histart.umontreal.ca/default-eng.html
<http://grafics.histart.umontreal.ca/default-eng.html>
Early French film site (Lumiere) http://perso.magic.fr/concept/WELCOME2.HTM
<http://perso.magic.fr/concept/WELCOME2.HTM>
Silent Movies http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/
<http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/>
Internet Source book for Early German Film
http://alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de/~a14m/index.html
<http://alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de/~a14m/index.html>
The German- Hollywood connection http://www.german-way.com/cinema/index.html
<http://www.german-way.com/cinema/index.html>
Taylorology on-line early film articles
http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/
<http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/>
Silent Film Bookshelf http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/
<http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/>
American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. Inc. http://www.altinet.net/biograph/
<http://www.altinet.net/biograph/>
Thanhouser site http://www.teleport.com/~tco/
<http://www.teleport.com/~tco/>
Specific sites:
Artcom International database of movies and videos on AIDS/HIV
http://www-old.ircam.fr/artcom/index-e.html
<http://www-old.ircam.fr/artcom/index-e.html>
The Serial Squadron (movie serials)
http://members.aol.com/serialhq/index.htm
<http://members.aol.com/serialhq/index.htm>
Alfred Hitchcock Scholars - MacGuffin Page
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html
<http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html>
Kubrick Multimedia film guide http://www.lehigh.edu/~pjl2/kubrick/
<http://www.lehigh.edu/~pjl2/kubrick/>
Fantomas site http://www.fantomas-lives.com/
<http://www.fantomas-lives.com/>
Historical Horror Site http://www.drcasey.com/movie.html
<http://www.drcasey.com/movie.html>
Flicker (Alternative, experimental film site)
http://www.sirius.com/~sstark/ <http://www.sirius.com/~sstark/>
National Cinemas:
Polish Cinema Database http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/
<http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
Irish Film Production Database http://www.iol.ie/~standish/Data.html
<http://www.iol.ie/~standish/Data.html>
Viaggio in Italia (In Italian only) http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6841/
<http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6841/>
Mexican Film Resource Site http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html
<http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html>
Telefilm Canada http://www.telefilm.gc.ca <http://www.telefilm.gc.ca>
Hong Kong Film Critics Society http://filmcritics.org.hk/
<http://filmcritics.org.hk/>
Hong Kong Cinema Database http://egret0.stanford.edu/hk/
<http://egret0.stanford.edu/hk/>
Indian Movie Gallery http://www.iit.edu/~kohlaga/indmov.html
<http://www.iit.edu/~kohlaga/indmov.html>
University of Iowa Japanese Film Studies Bibliography
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eac/japanfil.html
<http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eac/japanfil.html>
Video/laserdisc distributors:
Arab Film Distribution http://info@arabfilm.com/
<http://info@arabfilm.com/>
Australia's National Sound and Image Archive Sales
http://www.aa.gov.au/nfsa/shop/pricem.htm#silent
<http://www.aa.gov.au/nfsa/shop/pricem.htm#silent> mostly silents
California Newsreel http://www.newsreel.org/ <http://www.newsreel.org/>
African Cinema, race relations etc.
The Cinema Laser http://www.thecinemalaser.com/
<http://www.thecinemalaser.com/>
Review site
Criterion Collection - Voyager Company laserdiscs/dvd's
http://www.criterionco.com/criterion/whatsnew.html
<http://www.criterionco.com/criterion/whatsnew.html>
Electronic Arts Intermix http://www.eai.org/eaihome_dist.html
<http://www.eai.org/eaihome_dist.html>
Experimental/ independent works
Facets Multimedia http://www.facets.org/index.html
<http://www.facets.org/index.html>
U.S. and International films on video
First Run Icarus Films http://www.echonyc.com/~frif/
<http://www.echonyc.com/~frif/>
Latin American films, documentaries
Ken Crane's Laserdiscs and DVD's http://www.kencranes.com/
<http://www.kencranes.com/>
Kino on line http://www.kino.com/index.html <http://www.kino.com/index.html>
The Latin American Video Archive http://www.lavavideo.org/lava/
<http://www.lavavideo.org/lava/>
Video France http://www.francevision.com/vf/videofrance/index.htm
<http://www.francevision.com/vf/videofrance/index.htm>
Video Oyster (rare and out of print videos)
https://secure.nyic.net/secure-s/videooyster/shop/index.cfm
<https://secure.nyic.net/secure-s/videooyster/shop/index.cfm>
Silent film sources http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/
<http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/>
Technology:
One Hundred years of film sizes http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/filmsize.html
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/filmsize.html>
Film Stock Edge Codes
http://homepages.enterprise.net/filmsearch/Gallery/filmcodes.htm
<http://homepages.enterprise.net/filmsearch/Gallery/filmcodes.htm>
Cinematographica (historical equipment)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinemat.html
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinemat.html>
Digital reconstruction of motion pictures
http://www.digital-restoration.ethz.ch/
<http://www.digital-restoration.ethz.ch/>
Widescreen movie center http://www.cheezmo.com/wsmc/
<http://www.cheezmo.com/wsmc/>
IMAX http://www.imax.com/ <http://www.imax.com/>
Movie Sound Page http://www.moviesoundpage.com/
<http://www.moviesoundpage.com/>
Dolby Site http://www.dolby.com/news/ <http://www.dolby.com/news/>
Laser disc related sites http://www.ping.be/~ping1439/laserrel.html
<http://www.ping.be/~ping1439/laserrel.html>
Letterboxing http://www.mgm.com/mgmhv/letterbox/
<http://www.mgm.com/mgmhv/letterbox/>
DVD information related sites http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/
<http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/>
Optical Video Disc Association http://www.ovda.org/
<http://www.ovda.org/>
Publications:
Film/TV/Media Journals listings
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/journals/index.htm
<http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/journals/index.htm>
Film/Media Publishers' Catalogues
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/pub/medbk.htm
<http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/pub/medbk.htm>
Barnes and Noble http://www.BarnesandNoble.com/
<http://www.BarnesandNoble.com/>
Advanced Book Exchange (search for used and rare books)
http://www.abebooks.com/ <http://www.abebooks.com/>
Bibliofind (search for used and rare books) http://www.bibliofind.com/
<http://www.bibliofind.com/>
American Cinematographer http://www.cinematographer.com/magazine/index.htm
<http://www.cinematographer.com/magazine/index.htm>
DGA Magazine (Directors' Guild of America)
http://www.dga.org/magazine/index.htm
<http://www.dga.org/magazine/index.htm>
Film Feature Forum (English abstracts of essays and articles published in
European film journals)
http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at:80/~puntigam/FFF/index.html
<http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at:80/~puntigam/FFF/index.html>
L'Art du Cinema http://www.imaginet.fr/secav/adc/
<http://www.imaginet.fr/secav/adc/>
Journal of Film Preservation
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/fiaf/Journal/index.html
<http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/fiaf/Journal/index.html>
El Amante Cine (In Spanish only Argentinian journal) http://elamante.com.ar/
<http://elamante.com.ar/>
C Theory (journal of theory, technology and culture)
http://www.ctheory.com/ctheory.html <http://www.ctheory.com/ctheory.html>
Filmmaker: The Magazine of Independent Film http://www.filmmag.com/
<http://www.filmmag.com/>
E! Online http://www.eonline.com/ <http://www.eonline.com/>
Premiere http://www.premieremag.com/ <http://www.premieremag.com/>
Indie Wire (Independent Filmmaking) http://www.indiewire.com/index.html
<http://www.indiewire.com/index.html>
Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/>
Variety http://www.variety.com/ <http://www.variety.com/>
Screening the Past http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/
<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/>
The Silents Majority http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/
<http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/>
Classic Images http://www.classicimages.com/
<http://www.classicimages.com/>
Performance Schedules:
Film Festivals http://www.marklitwak.com/filmfes.htm
<http://www.marklitwak.com/filmfes.htm>
Film Forum in New York http://www.filmforum.com/
<http://www.filmforum.com/>
Pacific Film Archives http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
<http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/>
The Pleasure Dome, Toronto http://home.ican.net/~pdome/index/index.html
<http://home.ican.net/~pdome/index/index.html>
Ontario Cinematheque http://www.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/
<http://www.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/>
Cinematheque quebecoise http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/
<http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/>
Arts & Entertainment (A&E) http://www.aetv.com/index2.html
<http://www.aetv.com/index2.html>
Bravo! http://www.bravo.ca/ <http://www.bravo.ca/>
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/today/index.shtml
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/today/index.shtml>
CBC http://www.cbc.ca/ <http://www.cbc.ca/>
PBS http://www.pbs.org/ <http://www.pbs.org/>
Turner Classic Movies cable channel http://tcm.turner.com/
<http://tcm.turner.com/>
American Movie Classics cable channel http://www.amctv.com/home.html
<http://www.amctv.com/home.html>
TV Guide listings http://www.tvgen.com/tv/listings/
<http://www.tvgen.com/tv/listings/> Specific searches for television shows
and films on U.S. tv.
Prepared by
Oksana Dykyj
Head, Visual Media Resources
IITS
Concordia University
October, 1998.
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