Milestones that Paved the Way
| 1967 | Today the NICEM AV Database is available online by subscription. Covers educational, documentary, instructional, vocational, and informational materials along with motivational and recreational programming, genre classics, and independent avant-garde productions. Links to
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| 1971 |
WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog, is a bibliographic database with over 49 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages, with holdings information, including audiovisual material--from libraries in 45 countries. The Library of Congress, Pacific Film Archive and the Peabody Collection at the University of Georgia, among many others, catalog moving image materials in OCLC. |
| 1975 |
The RLG Union Catalog includes Visual Materials, bibliographic records for photographs, motion pictures, and graphics, including drawings, blueprints, and posters. UCLA Film and Television Archive records are in RLIN. |
| 1984 | The National Moving Image Database (NAMID) NAMID was a union catalog intended to facilitate moving image preservation and shared cataloging by centralizing information on film and television holdings. NAMID activities slowed in the 1990s due to funding and other issues, and the project came to an end in 2004. NAMID was an initiative of the National Center for Film and Preservation, which was established in 1984 by the
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| 1988 |
SilverPlatter The FIAF International FilmArchive Database includes FIAF Treasures from the Film Archives, information about the silent film holdings of film archives from around the world with brief identification information on over 35,000 films (features, short films, actualities and fictional works). A development of Treasures from the Film Archives: A Catalog of Short Silent Fiction Films Held by FIAF Archives, compiled and edited by Ronald S. Magliozzi, 1988. Also includes International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections, detailed information about the documentation collections of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions. The database is available by subscription through the Internet, Intranet or CD-ROM via FIAF or
See: “History of the FilmArchive Database” by Sarah Ziebell Mann in
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| 1989-1991 |
Footage 89 and Footage 91 Rick Prelinger’s pioneer hard copy film archive directories. The first was published in August 1989 at 900 pages. Narrative background is included in
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| 1994 |
“The stock, archival and news footage network,” Footage.net is a division of NPG, Inc., North American subsidiary of Newsplayer Group plc, a publicly traded company based in London. Online Footage Database in Footage.net: Action Sports/Scott Dittrich Films, Archive Films by Getty Images, Associated Press Television News, Budget Films Stock Footage, CNN ImageSource, CONUS, F.I.L.M Archives, Film Images (London and Paris), Footage Hollywood, FootageBank, Grinberg Worldwide Images includingParamount and Pathé Newsreel Indexes, Historic Films (eighty-five individual libraries), Index Stock Shots, NBC News Archives, National Geographic Television Film Library, Producers Library, RSPB Film Collection, Reelin' In The Years, StormStock, TWI Archive, Triangle Images, Video Tape Library LTD, WGBH, WPA Film Library. |
| 1998 | Footage: The Worldwide Moving Image Sourcebook PA hard copy directory of moving image repositories created by stock footage house Second Line Search after it bought the Footage copyright from Rick Prelinger in 1996. |
| 2001 |
The Internet Archive, a public nonprofit organization founded by Brewster Kahle, includes moving image collections such as the Prelinger Archives, 1,903 movie files available for streaming in RealMedia and QuickTime, and downloadable in MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, and IAFM. Also available are Computer Chronicles, 427 episodes of a PBS technology series; SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre 2001 animations; Net Café, 118 episodes of TV series; World at War, ten digital pieces created by members of the Internet Archive community. Information on the philosophy of
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