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Library of Congress - Motion Picture and Television Reading Room - http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/
Information about the library's motion picture collections and archival materials. |
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The Greatest Films - http://www.filmsite.org/
Interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films in the last century. |
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Inventing Entertainment - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
The Library of Congress' online exhibit of the early motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison Companies. Includes biography and information about Thomas Edison and his experiments in motion pictures. |
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Who's Who of Victorian Cinema - http://www.victorian-cinema.net/
A biographical guide to those who, behind and in front of the camera, collectively invented cinema in the 1890s. |
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Film and History - http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/
Interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies. Subscriptions, events, announcements, links, and contact information. |
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Origins of Animation - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
Development of early American animation represented by collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, spanning the years 1900-1921. Part of the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. |
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Cinematographica - http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinemat.html
Information about collecting vintage movie equipment, an alternative timeline for cinema history, list of equipment manufacturers, manuals, images, and links. |
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Classic Films - http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/index.html
Features articles, images, audio clips, links and comprehensive bibliography on Hollywood's Golden Era. |
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Film History By Decade - http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html
Series of web articles to provide a comprehensive survey of the history of cinema. |
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IMDb - This Day in Movie History - http://imdb.com/OnThisDay
Births, deaths and marriages of movie stars and celebrities. |
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Earlycinema.com - http://www.earlycinema.com/
An introduction to the first decade of film, with biographies, filmographies, technology, films, essays and additional resources. |
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Museu del Cinema - http://www.museudelcinema.org/
One of the few museums where you can journey through the 500 years of the history of images, seeing what were the predecessors and the origins of the cinema. Site available in Spanish, English and Catalan. |
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Women in Cinema - http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html
A reference guide to women in motion pictures and feminist films, and covers such topics as feminism, the women's movement, and women's issues as portrayed in movies. |
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The German-Hollywood Connection - http://www.germanhollywood.com/
A guide to the impact on Hollywood by film people from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. |
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Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/film.htm
The motion picture history collections includes film, other visual records and manuscript collections documenting a full century of cinema. |
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The Monster That Ate Hollywood - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hollywood/
PBS program explores the changing face of Hollywood and how the movie business, and movies themselves, have changed over the past 25 years. |
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Buckey's Film History and Resources Page - http://members.tripod.com/~cinefan/home.html
Provides articles, news and commentary on film history, include sections on film preservation and conservation. |
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Cinema History - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~yahnk001/film/cinema.htm
Chronicles the history of motion pictures and films from the silent era to the end of the 20th century. |
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Greenbriar Picture Shows - http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/
This site provides rare images, original ads, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of classic Hollywood films, along with insightful commentary. |
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The Picture Show Man - http://www.pictureshowman.com
Dedicated to exploring the history of motion pictures from 1890 to 1960, in all of its aspects, and to encouraging others to share in that exploration. |
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Classic Movies History Articles - http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/history.htm
A collection of articles from Classic Movies.org focused on historical events, such as the Hollywood Blacklist and the opening of the movies to African-American actors. |
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Pictures at a Revolution - http://www.picturesatarevolution.com/
A book by Mark Harris that tracks five movies on their five-year journey to Oscar night in the spring of 1968. Synopsis, chapter excerpt, author biography, and links. |
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The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry (1930-1968) - http://prodcode.dhwritings.com/
For four decades, American theatrical movies were governed by a self-policing agency which restricted the content that audiences would see. This web site catalogs instance of content that was shaped by "The Code" or which circumvented or violated the restrictions. |
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Bijou Dream - http://www.bijou-dream.com
Monthly ezine devoted to the American silent screen and the early days of movie exhibition. |
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Vitaphone - http://www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/
Devoted to early sound and color movies and late silents from the period 1925-1935. Includes feature films, animations, shorts, and soundtracks. |