General Film Publications and Resource Guides
To suggest additional sites for inclusion, please send an email to: dross@loc.gov. For information specifically related to film preservation and restoration, go to Preservation and Restoration Resources and Projects.
Film/Moving Image
- AFI
Catalog of Silent Films
- 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
- AMIA Newsbriefs
- Animated News
- Animation Consultants International
- Animation Journal
- Animation Magazine
- Animation World Network
- ArtsJournal
- Association of Moving Image Archivists Note: The following AMIA publications are all in pdf format
- Audio-Visual Archivists: Online Tools
- Australian Network for Information
on Cellulose Acetate
- Best Screenwriting Books
- Big Cartoon Database
- The Big Reel
- BigScreenbiz.com
- The Bioscope: Reporting
on the World of Early and Silent Cinema
- Black Classic Movies.com
- blackfilm.com
- BlackMovies: A Review and Summary of Essential Black Films
- Black Talent News.com
- Blinkbox
- David Bordwell
- Box Office at Hollywood.com
- Box Office Guru
- Box Office magazine
- Box Office Mojo
- Box Office Prophets
- Box Office statistics
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- Broadcasting
and Cable
- Louise Brooks Society
- Canada’s Digital
Collections
- Canadian Archival
Resources on the Internet
- 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
- Classic Images
- COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation,
Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
- CoOL (Conservation OnLine)
- Council on Library and Information
Resources
- Critic Doctor
- Cyber Times Navigator
- DGA
News magazine
- DVD Beaver
- DVD Review
- DVD Savant
- DVD
Spin Doctor (Glenn Abel)
- DVD Talk
- Daily
Anxiety
- Daily Script
- 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
- Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works.
- 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! Entertainment News
- EarlyCinema.com
- Early Visual
Media
- Encyclopedia
of Television
- Entertainment Weekly
- European Film Gateway
- William K. Everson Collection
- Fashion Film Festival
- FedFlix
- Film & History
- Film-Philosophy
- Film & Television Archives research guide.
- Film.com
- Film Comment
- Film Collecting Film Center
- Film
Co-op.com
- Film Critics
- Film Quarterly
- FilmRatings.com
- Film Reference Library (Canadian
Film)
- Film Score Monthly
- Films101: Sticking to the Best Movies
- Films on Disc
- Film-Handlers Forum discussion
group for film projectionists
- FlixUSA:Discussion Boards
for Professionals in the Entertainment Industries
- For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon
- The
Godfather, “Restoring The Godfathar,” ASC magazine May 2008
- Golden Silents
- Great
Character Actors
- The Greatest Films
- Griffithiana, a journal devoted to silent cinema and classic animation.
- 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
- Hollywood Stock Exchange: The
Entertainment Stock Market Simulation
- Ome and Amateur Film blog: Dwight Swanson
- Home Theater magazine
- Home Theater Forum
- Home Theater Review
- Hulu: Free Movies and TV online
- IFilm/Spike
- iCrewz.com
- IFC Blog
- Images,
a Journal of Film and Popular Culture
- Independent
Film and Video Monthly
- IndieWire
- Institute for Museum and Library Services: Connecting to Collections Nationwide Initiative
- International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections Bibliography
- International
Cinematographers Guild magazine
- Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
- 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
- Media History Digital Library (online copies of Photoplay, Moving Picture World). View Project Website here.
- “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
- Moving Image Archive News
- Movie Magazine
International
- Movie Mail UK: Film Glossary
- MovieMaker magazine
- Movie Poster Data Base
- Movielink (Video on demand distribution service)
- Movieweb
- The
Moving Image: Journal of AMIA
- Moving Image Source
- MPEG--Moving Picture
Experts Group
- National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: Reports
and Papers
- National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF)
- 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 Film Interest Group: Photostream of Nitrate Film Stills etc.
- NitrateVille
- POV
- Nostalgia Factory:
Movie Poster News Buletin
- Online Resource Guide to Information Science
- Orphans Film symposium
- Our Media
- “Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures”
- Mary Pickford Foundation
- PR Newswire
- Premiere
- 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
- Rotten Tomatoes Film Reviews
- Schenectady Museum presents a selection of rare films from its General Electric film collection, including more than 1,500 advertising, training, and educational films from 1915 through 1983.
- 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 Screen
- Screen Daily/Screen International
- 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 Era Film Journals and Books Online
- Silent-Movies.com (David
Pearson)
- “Silent Film
Resources on the Internet” (Glen Pringle)
- Silent
Film Stills Archive
- Silent Movies (Glen Pringle)
- Silent
on Video (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)
- 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 & Media Jobs and Opportunities (primarily in the UK).
- 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
- 3-Strip Technicolor Films (list compiled by Robert Harris)
- Toon Tracker
- Trailers from Hell
- TVRage
- 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 Format Identification
Guide
- Virtual
Prime Time: The Game of Fantasy Television
- What a Character
- Widescreen Review
- Wilhelm Imaging Research
- Writers Guild
of America Research Links
- Yahoo! Entertainment
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