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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  Activities also include preservation of the moving image.
• American Film Institute
  Website of the preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image.
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
  Includes early motion pictures.
• Anthology Film Archives
  Anthology preserves and exhibits motion pictures, collects literature and documents, and promotes understanding of cinema for students, scholars, the public.
• Archives With Significant Holdings of Silent Films
  Listing of U.S. archives with silent film holdings.
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
  The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) is an internationally recognized center for the exhibition and study of cinema.
• BFI Screenonline
  Excellent resource for history of British film and television.
• BFI: British Film Institute
  BFI's mission is to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of film, television and the moving image.
• Europa Film Treasures, the treasures from European Film Archives
  Research and view films—search by film archive, genre, title. Links to information on film archives throughout Europe.
• FIAF: International Federation of Film Archives
  The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing films both as cultural heritage and as historical documents.
• Filmarchives online
  Access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Search for content, filmographic data and physical characteristics.
• International Index to Film Periodicals
  A FIAF publication, provides in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. Indexes articles related to television. Database also includes Treasures from Film Archives and Documentation Centres.
• Internet Archive
  Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, IA is working to preserve multimedia materials ranging from the Prelinger Archives, to dance materials and text.
• MoMA
  Founded in 1935, the collection includes more than 14,000 films and four million film stills; the strongest international film collection in the United States, it incorporates all periods and genres.
• Motion Picture and Television Reading Room (Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress)
  Division responsible for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections, notably the paper print collection, copyright collection and AFI collection.
• National Archives and Records Administration
  Collection dates 1894 to present and includes 35,000 sound recordings, 4.5 million photographic items, 150,000 reels of motion picture film and 20,000+ videotapes, including public domain motion pictures created by more than 75 Federal agencies.
• National Archives Learning Curve/UK
  This site presents film as a historical source and considers its advantages and disadvantages as evidence for the past.
• Paul's 16mm Film Collecting Pages
  Some useful information such as School Film Archives and links.
• Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers--National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
  A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page. Page provides links to archives and preservation units U.S. and international.
• Silent Era
  Excellent resource for information on the silent era.
• The Paley Center for Media
  Sponsors discussion about the significance of television and radio. Maintains exceptional collection of programming.
• UCLA Film & Television Archive
  UCLA Film and Television Archive is committed to the preservation of moving image materials.

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• Film and Television Literature Index
  Annual index covering film and television periodicals with some full-text. International in scope with excellent coverage of American film, this index is useful for the scholar, student and general reader.
• FILMINFOCUS
  The subtitle says it all—"Movie lovers welcome." This amazing website produced by Focus Features includes links to movie resources, articles, think pieces, and much more.
• International Index to Film Periodicals
  A FIAF publication, provides In-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. Indexes articles related to television. Database also includes Treasures from Film Archives and Documentation Centres.

• ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
  Indexes North American publications related to Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
  Indexes materials on all fields of Asian Studies.
• FRANCIS
  Search for articles in 4200 international journals in all fields. Citations only.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Search Page, Library of Congress
  Indexes publications from and about Latin American and the Caribbean.
• Index Islamicus
  Indexes books and articles on Islam and the Muslim world.

• 19th Century Masterfile
  Includes several 19th-century periodical indexes and the New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906).
• Alternative Press Index
  More than 300 alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
• Alternative Press Index Archive
  Index of journals (1969-1990) featuring alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals.
• American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
  Searchable full-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
• Essay and General Literature Index
  Provides access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities.
• Google Scholar
  Search for articles, papers, conference proceedings.
• Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
  Search journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1907-1983.
• Humanities full-text
  Indexes articles from over 500 arts and humanities periodicals. Also useful for finding book reviews, movie reviews, play reviews, and creative writing published in journals, magazines and literary reviews. Covers such academic disciplines as archaeology.
• Proquest
  Coverage of magazines, scholarly publications, and newspapers.
• Reader's Guide
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals from 1890 through 1982.

• America, History and Life
  Premiere source for research on all aspects of US and Canadian history from prehistory to the present from articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Provides abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
• Historical Abstracts
  Premiere source for research on all aspects of non-U.S. and non-Canadian history covering content from 1450 to the present from articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations.

• Philosopher Index
  More than 480 journals, books, and anthologies in the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. 1940 to the present.

• ATLAreligion
  Provides abstracts and indexing for articles, essays, and book reviews in over 1550 journals and multi-author works dealing with religious and theological scholarship. International in scope and language.

• Anthropological Literature
  Comprehensive international resource for the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Indexes entries at least two pages long in nearly 900 journals and monographic series held in Harvard University's Tozzer Library.

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  Activities also include preservation of the moving image.
• American Film Institute
  Website of the preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image.
• The Oscars
  The official Academy Awards web site. Produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Film Festival World
  Comprehensive listing of international film festivals. Search by genre, location or date. Includes maps.
• Film Festivals.com
  The Film Festival Server takes you to the heart of film festival action through interviews, news updates, film synopsis and photos. Includes listing of Film Festivals Worldwide.
• Sundance Institute
  Website for the Sundance Institute -- dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters and directors, and to the national and international exhibition of new, independent dramatic and documentary film.

• American National Biography
  Biographies of notable men and women from all eras of American history including figures from the performing arts.
• Biography Index
  Provides citations for biographical articles, books, and other publications.
• Biography Resource Center
  Full-text biographies of persons living and deceased from all over the world.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  Biographical essays on authors from America, Britain, and selected other countries. Includes screenwriters and playwrights.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Biographies of peoples of the British Isles from the 4th century B.C. to the year 2002 including persons from the performing arts.
• Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
  Biographical guide to the earliest years of moving pictures, 1871-1901.
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
  Comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers.

• Cinematical.com
  All-encompassing site for everything related to cinema.
• Defamer, the L.A. Gossip Rag
  The title says it all.
• Features and Shorts
  Features resources and new films at Columbia University Libraries. The long and the short of researching film studies. Hosted by Nancy Friedland, Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies and Performing Arts.
• Indiewire.com
  All encompassing site for the "buzz" and cinema related topics.
• MCN: Movie City News
  Hollywood's homepage.
• On Five: The Criterion Collection Blog
  Read about the Criterion Collection.
• SpoutBlog
  Information daily.
• The Broadway Pulse
  The Broadway Pulse, maintained by BroadwayWorld.com's editorial staff, highlights the most interesting goings on in the world of theater - online and off.
• The Reeler
  New York City cinema.

• Cambridge Collections Online
  Subject or theme-based PDF collections of CambridgeUniversity Press titles. Includes significant collection of the Cambridge Companion series. Browse by title or keyword search entire full-text.
• Cambridge Histories Online
  Full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Included are The Cambridge History of American Theatre and The Cambridge History of British Theatre.
• CLIO: Columbia Libraries Information Online
  Search for books, journal holdings, plays, screenplays, videos, DVDs and sound recordings.
• Google Books
  If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. Public domain works are free to download.

• Box Office Guru
  Compilation of current and archived weekend box office receipts. The archives include figures since 1997. In addition, the site hosts a film database with comprehensive box office data on motion pictures released between 1989 and the present.
• Box Office Mojo
  Started in 1999, works as an online movie publication and box office reporting service.
• Proquest
  Coverage of magazines, scholarly publications, and newspapers.

• Encyclopedia of Dance
  Articles on all aspects of dance, including theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance.
• Encyclopedia of Television
  Includes 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and much more.
• Film Language Glossary
  Multimedia definitions of essential film studies terms.
• Gale Virtual Reference
  History of the American Cinema is now available electronically through the Gale Virtual Reference Collection. This essential resource, also available in print, documents American film history decade by decade currently through the 1980s. In addition, Gale Virtual Reference includes The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the Past, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Movies Made for Television: 1964-2004, and Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.
• Glossary of Film Terms
  Written and designed for the web by Joel Schlemowitz. Definitions of film terms.
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
  Comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
  Provides information about theater and performance from ancient Greece to the present.
• Oxford English Dictionary
  The OED.
• Oxford Reference Online
  Searchable full-text of about 100 language dictionaries and reference books published by Oxford University Press. See section "Performing Arts".

• Archives With Significant Holdings of Silent Films
  Listing of U.S. archives with silent film holdings.
• Chinese Movie Database
  Useful database for Chinese cinema.
• Complete Index to World Film since 1895
  Searchable database of more than 450,000 film titles. Search by title, year, origin, genre, or production company.
• Film Indexes Online Home Page
  Includes Film Index International (British Film Institute) and the AFI Catalog (American Film Institute), covering all eras of filmmaking from the early silents to recent box-office hits.
• FILMINFOCUS
  The subtitle says it all—"Movie lovers welcome." This amazing website produced by Focus Features includes links to movie resources, articles, think pieces, and much more.
• Greatest Films
  Information on classic Hollywood and American films. Includes listing of films by decade; section on film genre; film quotations and more.
• IMDB
  "...the biggest, best, most award-winning movie and TV site on the planet."
• National Film Preservation Board's Film Registry
  Listing of films selected for NFPB registry.
• The Bollywood Movie Database
  Catalog of films from India.
• The Oscars
  The official Academy Awards web site. Produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Accunet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive
  Image archive of the Associated Press.
• American Memory: Library of Congress
  A rich collection of images and full-text documents relating to U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.
• Archive of Americana
  Comprehensive historical collections including the American Broadsides and Ephemera Collection containing scanned images of playbills, photographs, poems, advertising cards, passenger lists and more.
• ARTstor
  Digital imags of architecture, painting, photography, scultpure, decorative arts, design and material culture.
• Black Studies Center
  Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies. Includes full-text articles and newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, still and moving images documenting African American experience and history.
• CLIO: Columbia Libraries Information Online
  Search for books, journal holdings, plays, screenplays, videos, DVDs and sound recordings.
• Early Encounters: peoples, cultures, and the environment
  Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Includes more than 1,700 images.
• Film and Television Literature Index
  Annual index covering film and television periodicals with some full-text. International in scope with excellent coverage of American film, this index is useful for the scholar, student and general reader.
• Google Images
  Search for images on the web.
• Visible Earth
  Search or browse this collection of images, visualizations, and animations of Earth.

• Kemps International Film and TV Production Services Directory
  Essential resource for film and TV program makers the world over.
• LA 411
  Directory for industry resources in the Los Angeles area. See also New York 411.
• Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
  Essential site for New York City film production. Includes; Tech List (job listing), Street Locator, NYC Studios and Stages, NYC Production Directories, Writer's Guild New York Script Library and much more.
• NAMAC: National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
  Listings for independent media, arts, organizations, media centers, film, video, radio, cable TV, funding, jobs, festivals, screenings and more.
• New York 411
  Directory for industry resources in the New York area. See also LA 411.
• New York Production Guide
  Searchable business/company directory for all aspects of film production in NYC.
• Proquest
  Coverage of magazines, scholarly publications, and newspapers.
  
• Sundance Institute
  Website for the Sundance Institute—dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters and directors, and to the national and international exhibition of new, independent dramatic and documentary film.

• American Memory from the Library of Congress
  Includes early motion pictures.
• American Memory: Library of Congress
  A rich collection of images and full-text documents relating to U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.
• Black Studies Center
  Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies. Includes full-text articles and newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, still and moving images documenting African American experience and history.
• CLIO: Columbia Libraries Information Online
  Search for books, journal holdings, plays, screenplays, videos, DVDs and sound recordings.
• Dance in Video
  Contains streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
• Theatre in Video
  Contains streaming video files of theatrical productions.
• U B U W E B :: Film & Video
  Digital archive of avant-garde film and video.
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  Catalog of network (ABC, CBS, NBC) nightly television news broadcasts from 1968 to present; selected CNN video from 1998 to present.
• Youtube
  Useful for rare footage.

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  Activities also include preservation of the moving image.
• American Film Institute
  Website of the preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image.
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
  Includes early motion pictures.
• Anthology Film Archives
  Anthology preserves and exhibits motion pictures, collects literature and documents, and promotes understanding of cinema for students, scholars, the public.
• Archives With Significant Holdings of Silent Films
  Listing of U.S. archives with silent film holdings.
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
  The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) is an internationally recognized center for the exhibition and study of cinema.
• BFI: British Film Institute
  BFI's mission is to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of film, television and the moving image.
• FIAF: International Federation of Film Archives
  The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing films both as cultural heritage and as historical documents.
• MoMA
  Founded in 1935, the collection includes more than 14,000 films and four million film stills; the strongest international film collection in the United States, it incorporates all periods and genres.
• Motion Picture and Television Reading Room (Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress)
  Division responsible for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections notably paper print collection, copyright collection and AFI collection.
• National Archives and Records Administration
  Collection dates 1894 to present and includes 35,000 sound recordings, 4.5 million photographic items, 150,000 reels of motion picture film and 20,000+ videotapes, including public domain motion pictures created by more than 75 Federal agencies.
• National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
  Advisory group to the Librarian of Congress with representatives from the film industry, archives, scholars, filmmakers and others.
• National Film Preservation Foundation
  A non-profit organization created by the U.S. Congress to save America's film heritage by supporting preservation activities nationwide.
• Paul's 16mm Film Collecting Pages
  Some useful information such as School Film Archives and links.
• Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers--National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
  A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page. Page provides links to archives and preservation units U.S. and international.
• UCLA Film & Television Archive
  UCLA Film and Television Archive is committed to the preservation of moving image materials.

• Motion Pictures, Cinema and Film
  A listing of print resources.

• Alternative Press Index
  More than 300 alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
• Alternative Press Index Archive
  Index of journals (1969-1990) featuring alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals.
• Bloomberg
  Links to film and stage reviews.
• Emanuel Levy
  Emanuel Levy is an American film critic and writer. This site hosts film and DVD reviews, profiles, interviews and Hollywood news.
• Film and Television Literature Index
  Annual index covering film and television periodicals with some full-text. International in scope with excellent coverage of American film, this index is useful for the scholar, student and general reader.
• FILMINFOCUS
  The subtitle says it all—"Movie lovers welcome." This amazing website produced by Focus Features includes links to movie resources, articles, think pieces, and much more.
  
• Humanities full-text
  Indexes articles from over 500 arts and humanities periodicals. Also useful for finding book reviews, movie reviews, play reviews, and creative writing published in journals, magazines and literary reviews. Covers such academic disciplines as archaeology.
• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
  International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles.
• International Index to Film Periodicals
  A FIAF publication, provides In-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. Indexes articles related to television. Database also includes Treasures from Film Archives and Documentation Centres.
• International Index to the Performing Arts
  Search and browse nearly half a million citations, abstracts, and selected full text records in a comprehensive range of journals covering the full spectrum of the performing arts. Subjects covered include drama, dance, film, television.
• MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
  Current and retrospective reviews from a wide variety of resources.
• Proquest
  Coverage of magazines, scholarly publications, and newspapers.
• Reader's Guide
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals from 1890 through 1982.
• Roger Ebert
  Reviews

• Alternative Press Index
  More than 300 alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
  
• Alternative Press Index Archive
  Index of journals (1969-1990) featuring alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals.
• Book Review Digest
  Citations and abstracts for book reviews in leading English-language periodicals.
• Book Review Digest Retro
  Excerpts from and citations to book reviews from 1905 to 1982.
• Humanities full-text
  Indexes articles from over 500 arts and humanities periodicals. Also useful for finding book reviews, movie reviews, play reviews, and creative writing published in journals, magazines and literary reviews. Covers such academic disciplines as archaeology.
• Proquest
  Coverage of magazines, scholarly publications, and newspapers.
• Reader's Guide
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective
  Coverage of popular interest periodicals from 1890 through 1982.

• American Film Scripts Online
  Over 700 accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers, as well as nearly 500 unpublished screenplays.
• CLIO: Columbia Libraries Information Online
  Search for books, journal holdings, plays, screenplays, videos, DVDs and sound recordings.

• Archival Survival: The Fundamentals of Using Film Archives and Stock Footage Libraries
  Written by Rick Prelinger.
• Buyout Footage
  Lists public domain and royalty free footage.
• FOOTAGE.net – The Stock, Archival, and News Footage Network
  Source for the best footage available including ad, film and tv. Search the footage trade's best, stock, archival and news footage databases all at once.
• Free Stock Footage
  Good resource for clips and royalty free footage.
• Internet Archive
  Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, IA is working to preserve a multimedia ranging from the Prelinger Archives, dance materials, text.
• Stock Footage: Royalty-Free and Rights-Ready Footage
  Historical stock footage and film clips including newsreels, Hollywood features, silent films, classic documentaries, TV programs and performances.
• Thought Equity – Stock Footage
  Fee based, some royalty free—Paramount Studios, Political Content and more.