Film

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Academy Film Archive

http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/

Part of the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Los Angeles. Collection includes over 100,000 items, covering some 70,000 individual titles.

American Film Institute: Louis B Mayer Library

http://www.afi.com/about/library.aspx

Holds books, periodicals and special collections covering aspects of motion pictures and television. Collections include thousands of scripts and production records. Visitor information. Los Angeles, California.

Anthology Film Archives

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Preserves and exhibits film and video with a focus on independent and avant-garde cinema. Holdings include books, periodicals, photographs, documents, manuscripts, letters, scripts, notebooks, and clippings. New York.

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog

http://www.animationarchive.org/

Project to expand the offerings of the current ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Center in Burbank, California, to include a virtual archive, museum, library and research facility devoted to the art of animation. Progress reports and call for volunteers.

Association of Moving Image Archivists

http://www.amianet.org/

Organization devoted to advancing the field of moving image archiving. Includes information on membership, conferences, publications, awards, and interest groups.

BBC Learning Studies

http://www.bbcstudies.com

Video resources from the world's largest educational TV archive, incorporating a full licence to use in education and training.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Centre for study and education with museum, gallery and film archive. Located in Berkeley, California.

British Film Institute:National Film and Television Archive

http://www.bfi.org.uk/nftva/

Largest collection of television and film titles in Europe. Offers access to titles on several video formats.

Filmmakers Library

http://www.filmakers.com/

Collects, distributes, sells and leases documentary films and videos primarily for educational use. Subjects include psychology, sociology, anthropology and multicultural issues.

Fleischarchive.org

http://www.fleischarchive.org/

Archive of Thorsten Fleisch, hosting scientific and educational silent films, encoded in divx format. Includes a title index. [German and English]

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

A collection of over 3,800 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Admission by appointment during term time. Housed at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

George Eastman House: Motion Picture Collections

http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/motion_picture.asp

Collects and interprets images, films, and equipment in the disciplines of photography and motion pictures.

Harvard Film Archive

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/

Collects and screens fine foreign, art, historical, and other films.

Internet Moving Images Archive

http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

From the Prelinger Archive, thousands of digitalized industrial, educational, travel, propaganda and other short films from 1903 to the 1970s available for free, online.

Mediatèque

http://www.sawvideo.com/cinema/

Streams 500 independent films and videos by Canadian media artists. Search by category, medium, length or years. Includes the SAW video forum. [English and French]

Moving History

http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/

The guide to UK film and television archives in the public sector. Includes a map showing the regions covered by regional archives, and details of their collections.

National Center for Jewish Film

http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/

Dedicated to preserving and sharing Jewish heritage. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. Distributes restored versions of rare Yiddish-language features.

National Film Archive of Thailand

http://www.nfat.org/

Information about the collection [English and Thai].

National Film Preservation Board

http://www.loc.gov/film/

A public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies and similar institutions.

Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive

http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net

Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.

Prelinger Archives

http://www.panix.com/~footage/

Collection of advertising, amateur, educational and industrial films that date from 1903 to 1990. Historical and bibliographical resources on these genres.

Public Domain Flicks

http://www.publicdomainflicks.com/

Offers downloads of full-length movies that are in the public domain.

San Francisco Media Archive

http://www.sfm.org/

Collection of historically important films. General information including donation guidelines.

Screen Archive South East

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/

The public sector moving image archive serving the South East of England, working to collect, preserve, provide access to and promote screen material related to the region.

ScreenSound Australia

http://www.screensound.gov.au/

Seeks to collect, preserve and share Australia's audio visual heritage.

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