Here's an interesting list - it missed one critical one with lots of African
film information:
the African Cinema home page: http://www.catalog.com/dsr/film.htm
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From: owner-viscom
To: Multiple recipients of list VISCOM
Subject: A Borrowed Web Site List
Date: Friday, 31 January, 1997 6:09AM
USEFUL INTERNET RESOURCES FOR FILM STUDIES
Search Engines:
Yahoo -- Movies and Films:
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Films/
Deja News -- source for subject searching internet newsgroups:
http://www.dejanews.com/
Databases:
Internet Movie Database:
http://us.imdb.com/
The Motion Picture Guide:
http://www.iguide.com/movies/mopic/pictures/
Cinemedia:
http://www.afionline.org/CineMedia/cmframe.html
Organizations, Libraries and Archives:
American Film Institute:
http://www.afionline.org
Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Site:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/papr/mpixhome.html
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
http://www.ampas.org/ampas
UCLA Film and Television Archive:
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/default.html
Director's Guild of America
http://www.leonardo.net/dga/dganews
Film Studies Association of Canada:
http://www.film.queensu.ca/FSAC/Home.html
Museum of Broadcast Communications:
http://www.neog.com/mbc/
Technology:
Imax the Technology:
http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/sonytheatres/imax/imaxtech.html
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers:
http://www.smpte.org/
Movie Sound Page:
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~psun/msound.htm
Dolby Lab News:
http://www.dolby.com/news/
Film Formats:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/%7Emrbaldoc/film.html
Film History and Criticism:
GRAFICS Early Cinema Server (Universite de Montreal):
http://grafics.histart.umontreal.ca
History of Communication Media Technologies:
http://www.mediahistory.com
Association francaise de recherche sur l'histoire du cinema
http://www.dsi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHC.html
Taylorology (reprints of early magazine and newspaper articles on silent
film people):
http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/
University of Minnesota Movie Review Database:
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/ll/fun/Movies
SOFIA (Study of Film as Internet Application):
http://www.unl.ac.uk/sofia/
The File Room - Censorship:
http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/TofCont.html
Film Document Library (film genres):
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/ll/Library/Media/Film
Video: The Video and Movie Review Database (Iowa State):
gopher://isumvs.iastate.edu:70/1%7edb.VIDEO
Motion Picture Industry -- Students:
Independent Film & Video Makers Internet Resource Guide:
http://www.echonyc.com/~mvidal/Indi-Film+Vidoe.html
Mandy's Film & TV Directory:
http://www.mandy.com/
Perequito Productions for film students and filmmakers:
http://free.websight.com/Quintana2/
Meta Guides and Links:
Berkeley Media Resources:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/MRCServicesMenu.html
MCS Media and Communication Studies Site:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/medmenu.html
ScreenSite: Film & TV Resources:
http://www.sa.ua.edu/TCF/contents.htm
Take Two (Internet Guide to Film & TV):
http://www.webcom.com/~taketwo/
TV Links Film and Television Website Archive:
http://www.timelapse.com/tvlink.html
Cinema Sites:
http://www.webcom.com/~davidaug/Movie_Sites.html
France Cinema Multimedia:
http://www.imaginet.fr/~fcm/hot.htm
Flicker (Alternative Cinema Site)
http://www.sirius.com/~sstark/
American Communication Association (scholarly links):
http://www.uark.edu/dept/comminfo/www/film.html
Media Related Listserv and E-Journals:
http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html
Media - Cinema periodicals/journals:
List of cinema/media journals (Web pages for journals -- not full-text)
http://alpha2.csd.uwm.edu/Dept/English/jclist.html
Premiere Magazine:
http://www.premieremag.com/hfm/index.html
Hors-Champ:
http://www.horschamp.qc.ca
The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/
Microsoft Cinemania Online:
http://Cinemania.msn.com/Cinemania/Home.asp
Bibliographic access:
Electric Library (pay for full text, citations free)
http://www2.elibrary.com/search.cgi
Film History and Criticism Sources in the UC Berkeley Libraries:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmRefGuide.html
and The American Film Institute is pleased to announce the launch of a
new film and video preservation section on its ever-growing and
award-winning Web site, AFI OnLine.
http://www.afionline.org/preservation
Video and laserdisc sites:
Kino On-Line:
http://www.kino.com/index.html
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/
Video Oyster (Out of print, hard to find, rare (and therefore expensive)
videos):
http://www.videooyster.com/
Ken Crane's Laserdisc Superstore:
http://www.kencranes.com/
Voyager:
http://www.voyagerco.com/
Interesting Specific Sites:
Stanley Kubrick Web Site:
http:www.lehigh.edu/~pjl2/kubrick.html
Alfred Hitchcock WWW:
http://nextdch.mty.itesm.mx/~plopezg/Kaplan/Hitchcock.html
The Hitchcock Page:
http://www.primenet.com/~mwc/index.html
Alfred Hitchcock Scholars Meet Here: the McGuffin Web Page:
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/
The Martin Scorsese Page:
http://www.nauticom.net/www/swan/zaks_influences/filmmakers/scorsese.
html
The Film 100 (the 100 most influential film people):
http://www.film100.com/
Cross-Cultural Film Guide (Africa, Asia, Latin America):
http://newton.library.american.edu/collects/media/afderhe/aufderhe.htm
Women in Cinema -- A Reference Guide:
http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html
prepared by:
Oksana Dykyj,
Head, Visual Media Resources
Audio-Visual Department
Concordia University
oksana@vax2.concordia.ca
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