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Film/Moving Image
- Ain't-It-Cool-News.com
- All-Movie Guide
- American Cinematographer
- American Rhetoric.com Great site containing famous speeches in the movies and other settings
- AFI Catalog of Silent Films
- Animated News
- Animation Blast
- Animation Consultants International
- Animation Journal
- Animation Magazine
- Animation World Network
- Association of Moving Image Archivists Note: The following AMIA publications are all in pdf format
- Australian Network for Information on Cellulose Acetate
- Big Cartoon Database
- The Big Reel
- BigScreenbiz.com
- The Bioscope: Reporting on the World of Early and Silent Cinema
- Black Classic Movies.com
- Black Talent News.com
- blackfilm.com
- David Bordwell
- Box Office Guru
- Box Office magazine
- Box Office Mojo
- Box Office statistics
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- Broadcasting and Cable
- Louise Brooks Society
- Canada's Digital Collections
- Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
- Canadian Audio-Visual Heritage Preservation Plan: Fading Away (1995) Note: This is a PDF file which require the free version of the Acrobat viewer to view.
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Canadian Journal of Film Studies
- CanadianFilm.com
- "Caring for Your Collections" (Library of Congress)
- Cartoon Brew
- Cartoon Research (Jerry Beck)
- Cineaste
- CineBooks database Use search feature to find reviews of a title
- Cinefantastique magazine
- CineFiles(a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archives Library's collection)
- CineGraph
- Cinema: How are Hollywood Films Made?
- Cinema Journal
- CineMedia (over 25,000 links!)
- Classic Images
- COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
- CoOL (Conservation OnLine)
- Council on Library and Information
Resources
- Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
- The Digital Film Restoration Process
- The Digital Library: a Biography
- The Evidence in Hand: the Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections
- National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity
- A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
- Critic Doctor
- Cyber Times Navigator
- DGA News magazine
- DVD Beaver
- DVD Review
- DVD Savant
- DVD Spin Doctor (Glenn Abel)
- DVD Talk
- Daily Anxiety
- The Damfinos: The International Buster Keaton Society
- Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily
- Digital Bits
- Jonas Palm: The Digital Black Hole (pdf file)
- Digital Copyright Course syllabus
- Digitization 101 Blog
- Digitally Obsessed
- Disaster Prevention and Recovery for Moving Image Materials
- Disaster Recovery Journal
- Domitor
- Done Deal (Info on movie script deals, etc.)
- DriveinMovie.com
- E! Online
- EarlyCinema.com
- Early Visual Media
- Encyclopedia of Television
- Entertainment Weekly
- William K. Everson Collection
- FIRST: Film Restoration and Conservation Strategies
- Fashion Film Festival
- Film & History
- Film-Philosophy
- Film.com
- Film Comment
- Film Collecting Film Center
- Film Co-op.com
- Film Critics
- Film Forever: The Home Film Preservation Guide
- Film Preservation Handbook (ScreenSound Australia)
- Film Quarterly
- Film Reference Library (Canadian Film)
- "Film Restoration on the Eve of the Millennium"
- Film Score Monthly
- Films on Disc
- Film-Handlers Forum discussion group for film projectionists
- FlixUSA:Discussion Boards for Professionals in the Entertainment Industries
- Future Movies
- Glossarist'sFilm Glossaries and Film Dictionaries
- The Godfather, "Restoring The Godfathar," ASC magazine May 2008
- Golden Silents
- Great Character Actors
- The Greatest Films
- GRIFFITHIANA
- Interview with Bob Harris and "Tilting at Hollywood
- Hello, Harold Lloyd
- Harold Lloyd official website
- Steven Hill's Movie Title Screen Page
- "History of sub-35mm Film Formats and Cameras (essay by Jan-Eric Nystrom
- Hollywood Creative Directory
- Hollywood Online
- The Hollywood Reporter
- "Studios Renewing Focus on Film Preservation" (November 2002 Hollywood Reporter article)
- Hollywood Stock Exchange: The Entertainment Stock Market Simulation
- Home Theater magazine
- Home Theater Forum
- Home Theater Review
- Hulu: Free Movies and TV online
- IFilm/Spike
- IFC Blog
- Images, a Journal of Film and Popular Culture
- Independent Film and Video Monthly
- IndieWire
- International Cinematographers Guild magazine
- Internet Movie Database
- Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF)
- Kemps Film and Television Production Services Handbook
- KINEMA
- Kinoeye, "a new fortnightly journal of film in the new Europe"
- Kodak: Motion Picture Resource Guides
- Large Format Motion Picture Network
- Lost and Found Films
- Lumiere: Database on admissions of films released in Europe
- MIC Glossary of Preservation Terms
- "Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling" Document published by National Media Lab and the Commission on Preservation and Access
- Mandy's International Film and Television Production Directory
- Masters of Cinema: Collating and Disseminating Information for Discerning Cinephiles the World Over
- "More Than 100 Years of Film Sizes" (Michael Rogge)
- Motion Picture Date Code Charts (Sabucat)
- Motion Picture Stock Time Line (Cinetech)
- Movie Collector's World Movie Martketplace
- Movie Editor (Editor's Guild magazine)
- MovieGoods
- Movie Magazine International
- MovieMaker magazine
- Movielink (Video on demand distribution service)
- Movieweb
- The Moving Image: Journal of AMIA
- Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
- Moving Image Source
- MPEG--Moving Picture Experts Group
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: Reports and Papers
- National Film Preservation Foundation
- National Screen and Sound Archive: Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms
- New Review of Film and Television Studies
- Nitrate Film
- Randy Kennedy, New York Times, February 5,2004, "So Many Films, But Only a Few Are Treasures; Library of Congress Separates Mere Movies From Landmarks"
- Nitrate OnLine
- NitrateVille
- POV
- Nostalgia Factory: Movie Poster News Buletin
- Orphans Film symposium
- Our Media
- Mary Pickford Foundation
- PR Newswire
- Premiere
- Preservation Directory.com
- Preservation Guide Wiki
- The Projection Box
- Reel
- Reframe
- Repository of Primary Sources A listing of over 5500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. (Univ. of Idaho) and Additional Links
- "Restoration Nation: Motion Picture Archives and American Film Preservation" (dissertation by Caroline Frick). Note: This is a PDF file which require the free version of the Acrobat viewer to view.
- Rotten Tomatoes Film Reviews
- Eric Schwartz Copyright Society of USA Journal article on 1988 National Film Preservation Act(courtesy Eric Schwartz) [PDF file: 2.59MB] Note: This a PDF file which require the free version of the Acrobat viewer to view.
- Screen
- Screen Digest
- Screening the Past
- Screenwriters Online
- Screenwriting Central--Script Magazine
- Second Run DVD
- Senses of Cinema
- Shooting Down Pictures
- Sight and Sound
- Silent Era
- Silent-Movies.com (David Pearson)
- Silent Film Bookshelf
- "Silent Film Resources on the Internet" (Glen Pringle)
- Silent Film Stills Archive
- Silent Movies (Glen Pringle)
- Silent Movies on DVD
- Silent Movies on Videotape (Over 700 listed as of 12/99!, courtesy Silents are Golden Web site)
- Silents are Golden
- Society of American Archivists, Visual Materials Section Newsletter
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Journal (pre-1962) (courtesy Internet Archive)
- "Studios Renewing Focus on Film Preservation," 2002 Hollywood Reporter article
- The Story of Movies (The Film Foundation's middle school curriculum for the study and appreciation of cinema)
- Streaming Media FAQ
- Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films (SMU)
- Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections
- TV Guide
- TV Guide: Movie Reviews
- Television Without Pity
- Texas Commission on the Arts: Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
- They Shoot Pictures, Don't They
- 30 Great Westerns
- Toon Tracker
- Trailers from Hell
- U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries and Renewals
- Ultimate Table of Formats--Aspect Ratios (efilm center)
- UNESCO Archives Portal and UNESCO Audio-Visual Archives Portal
- Audio-Visual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles and other Audio-Visual publications such as A- V: A Practical Reader
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Movie Reviews
- United States Copyright Office, Records Database
- United States Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries for Motion Pictures
- Variety home page
- Velvet Light Trap
- Video Aids to Film Preservation
- Video Format Identification Guide
- VidiPax
- Virtual Prime Time: The Game of Fantasy Television
- What a Character
- Widescreen Review
- Wikipedia Encyclopedia entry on Film Preservation
- Wilhelm Imaging Research
- Writers Guild of America Research Links
- Yahoo! Entertainment News Summary
- Sarah Ziebell: American Moving Image Preservation: 1967-1987, master's thesis at UT-Austin (courtesy Sarah Ziebell) (2000) [PDF file: 11.1MB] Note: This is a PDF file which require the free version of the Acrobat viewer to view.
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