A
American
Memory Collections Library of Congress, U.S.
.
American WideScreen Museum
A film technology resource covering wide screen
systems, colour history and sound development.
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Archives. Film archives
,
B
Bibliografie
des fantastischen films: bibliography of fantastic film.
The 'Bibliography of Fantastic Film', a bibliography of the secondary
literature on such films.
.
British
cinema history research project.
The British Cinema History Research Project (BCHRP). Includes online
searchable transcriptions of interviews from the Broadcasting
Entertainment
Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) Oral History project.
.
British
Film Institute archives.
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C
La
Cinémathèque française
.
Chronologie
des débuts du cinéma
.
Classic
film and television.
The site includes a large
number of articles, arranged into the following sections: Film Noir;
early thrillers; modern thrillers; pre-1970 Hollywood feature films;
the Avant-Garde; Japanese films; Neorealism and television.
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Criterion
Collection
The homepage of the Criterion collection of classical films on DVD.
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E
Early
Cinema.com
Earlycinema.com aims to provide an introduction to the first
decade of motion pictures and the developments which helped shape
cinema
as we know it today.
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European cinema. 100 years of cinema in Europe.
A site, in Italian and English, collecting
histories of film production and exhibitions in most European
countries.
.
Europa Film Treasures
cinémathèque en ligne
.
F
Film
history, film archive web pages from Harvard University.
.
Film
and television history, British Film Institute.
General History of the Moving
Image. Pre-Cinema/Early Cinema, Silent Cinema, History of British
Cinema,
Television History.
.
Film
History by Decade
A
history of film by genre type or by non-genre film
category.
See also the extensive year-by-year timeline of influential milestones
and turning points in film history, and milestones in visual and
special effects.
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G
German-Hollywood
Connection
The impact of Austrians, Germans and Swiss on Hollywood.
.
Gone with the Wind online exhibit.
The online exhibition of Gone with the Wind,
created by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of
Texas at Austin.
.
H
Harvard Film Archive
.
History
in Film
A site designed to support teaching history using popular films.
.
Histoire du cinéma
Wikipedia
.
Hollywood
Archaeology
.
Institut
Lumiere
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L
Legacy
Project
The Legacy Project is a gathering place for people interested in the
enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century. The
website includes three searchable archives of artworks, films and
writings.
.
Lumiere.
Louis. Louis Lumiere
Institut Lumière museum of cinema.
Masters
of Cinema
Bringing pertinent information together in one place for aficionados
of World Cinema.
.
More than one hundred years of film sizes.
The
website covers topics such as: the struggle for standardisation and the
acceptance of 35mm as the standard film size; early film sizes; safety
and uninflammable film; 28mm; glass and semi-gramophone records; other
formats; wide screen; collecting movie equipment; and film and
literature.
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N
The
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
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P
Picture
Palaces in America
Some Enchanted Evenings, American Picture Palaces.
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Pre
Cinema History
The complete history of the discovery of cinematography.
An illustrated chronology.
.
Prelinger
Archives
The Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New
York City. Over the
next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 48,000 "ephemeral"
(advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the
film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion
Picture,
Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
.
Public
moving image archives and research centers.
The Library of
Congress, providing
information about the copyright law to improve access to films by the
public.
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S
Screenonline: the definitive guide to Britain's film
and TV history.
Screen Online has been developed by the British Film Institute (BFI) as
a guide to the history of film and television in Britain.
Screenonline contains hundreds of hours of clips from the BFI National
Film and Television Archive together with commentaries, synopses, and
supporting materials.
V
Victorian
Cinema.net
The who's who of Victorian cinema
.
Virtual
history: film.
A site, in English and German, devoted to the movies and
contains images from cigarette cards, film magazines, film programmes
and postcards.
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W
Wikipedia
entry on the history of cinema.
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Y
YouTube
Videos
Enter 'Edison,' 'early cinema,' primitive cinema,' etc, to view early
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