Knowledge: history
See Also:
- arts → architecture → building types → theaters and cinemas
- arts → art history
- arts → photography → reference → history
- business → marketing and advertising → advertising → history
- society → history → by topic → cultural history
Links
- Universal Studios Archives & Collections
http://www.universalstudios.com/archives/ - History of Universal Studios and their movies.
- Library of Congress - Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ - Information about the library's motion picture collections and archival materials.
- Earlycinema.com
http://www.earlycinema.com/ - An introduction to the first decade of film, with biographies, filmographies, technology, films, essays and additional resources.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Classic Films
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/index.html - Features articles, images, audio clips, links and comprehensive bibliography on Hollywood's Golden Era.
- The Hollywood Thirties
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/4344/ - A personal homepage devoted to the history and trends of the movies of the 1930s, as well as information on leading actors/actresses of the era.
- 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 protrayed in movies.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cinema Britain
http://members.aol.com/cinemabritain/ - A site devoted to the British film industry in the 1950s and 1960s when family films gave way to genre films aimed at young adult audiences.
- The Monster That Ate Hollywood
http://www.pbs.org/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.
- Classic Film Safari
http://classicfilmsafari.tripod.com/ - Personal site providing information about classic films from 1930's through 1950's.
- Incomplete History of the Blind as Portrayed in Movies and TV
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/history/index.php3 - Reviews for television shows and films which feature blind persons.
- Hooray for Hollywood
http://golden_age_films.tripod.com/ - Dedicated to the actors and actresses from Hollywood's "Golden Era" of film during the early part of the 20th century.
- Women In Film
http://www.geocities.com/albanystudent/wif.html - Short article about the portrayal of women throughout film history.
- Vitaphone
http://www.vitaphone.org/ - Devoted to early sound and color movies and late silents from the period 1925-1935. Includes feature films, animations, shorts, and soundtracks.
- Walt's Wyoming Film Web
http://www.theastrocowboy.com/ - Information about 20th century film in Wyoming, USA.
- Film Notes
http://www.filmnotes.com/ - Focuses on foreign film and early cinematic history. Reviews and information pages on films and directors along with links to related sites. Also includes a discussion forum.
- 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.
- 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.
- The German-Hollywood Connection
http://www.germanhollywood.com/ - A guide to the impact on Hollywood by film people from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
- 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.
- CinePhoto.co.uk
http://www.cinephoto.co.uk/ - Photographs of technical equipment associated with cinema projection, over a 45-year period.
- Cybercinema
http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/cybercinema/ - An interactive site devoted to the history of computers and artificial intelligence in film, presented by the University of Illinois Department of English.
- IMDb - This Day in Movie History
http://imdb.com/OnThisDay - Births, deaths and marriages of movie stars and celebrities.
- Film and History
http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/ - Interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies. Subscriptions, events, announcements, links, and contact information.
- 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.
- Hollywood Lost and Found
http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/ - Hollywood history, film facts, movie props and sound effects trivia.
- Sixties Cinema
http://www.sixtiescinema.com/ - Features brief profiles and photographs of women in film throughout the 1960s.
- Film History By Decade
http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html - Series of web articles to provide a comprehensive survey of the history of cinema.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bijou Dream
http://www.bijou-dream.com - Monthly ezine devoted to the American silent screen and the early days of movie exhibition.
- Cinema Foyer
http://www.cinemafoyer.com - Essays on cinema history and film reviews focussed on the period from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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