PORTAL SITES
Institute of Communications Studies (Leeds, UK)
Site with extensive resources and further links.
British Pathe
British Pathe is offering free access to a digitized collection of more than 12 million historic photographs from its 20th century cinema newsreel archive. Archivists and technicians have created the images by re-scanning the newsreel's 3,500 hours of 35 millimeter film.
NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVES
US National Archives
(Washington, DC, USA) US National Archives, with search facility.
Library of Congress
(Washington, DC, USA) Search facility to some of the Library's motion picture holdings.
Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives
Library of Congress (Washington, DC, USA) Internet Resource Page, with links to national archives worldwide.
USEFUL FILM & TV ARCHIVES
Virtual Tour Of The CBC Archives
(Canada) Have a look around - there's lots of good content here.
Internet Movie Database
(International) - Comprehensive feature film database, searchable by category.
Footage Net
Stock footage from many sources, keyword searchable.
Television News Archive
(USA) Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University.
US television network news from 1968 - searchable by date and category.
Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
Developed by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan from their 1996 book of the same title, published by the BFI. The website is a guide to some 300 people active in film behind and in front of the camera in the 1890s. As well as the detailed and illustrated biographies, they have added a wide range of new resources, designed both to support researchers familiar with the field and to help those with a general interest in the late Victorian period.
ORGANISATIONS
American Film Institute
(American) - American Film Institute, leads to Cinemedia.
FOCAL
(International) - An international federation of film archives and film researchers.
Association of Moving Image Archivists
(International) -Includes an on-line discussion forum.
The British Universities Film and Video Council
More than just a coordinating body for higher education. The jewel in its crown is a huge online database of British Newsreels.
HISTORY WEBSITES
Visual Media and History
(Australia) - Electronic journal of visual media and history.
History Today
A wide-ranging magazine written by professional historians for non-specialist readers. IAMHIST members often contribute to its Film in Context series.
History News Network
A site which offers high class gossip about and polemics by (mostly) print historians.
History Image Sound
The Dutch association Geschiedenis Beeld Geluid (History Image Sound) is a forum for researchers, teachers, television - and filmmakers who use audiovisual material (image as well as sound) as a source for their work. Most of the Dutch and Belgian IAMHIST members are also members of Geschiedenis Beeld Geluid. In their latest (online) newsletter they reserved some space for a IAMHIST profile. (in Dutch).
OTHER WEBSITES
Early Visual Media
Early Visual Media is a non-commercial but informative and historical website. For this, the current page will bring you through e-mail addresses and hyperlinks to these informative and historical sources in books, video, DVD, etc. A new page on Early Visual Media will inform you in the future about new important publications in our field.
Kamera
An on line, non academic, film magazine focusing on independent cinema which has interviews with directors and includes an extensive review section.
House of World Cultures, Berlin will be hosting a conference from 20 to 22 May 2004. This conference is themed "Global Icons - Cultural Identity in the Media".
The Internet Moving Images Archive
This resource contains high-quality digital video files representing ephemeral films relevant to the study of 20th-century American culture and society.
Future Movies UK
British movie review and filmmaking website.
JobsInbroadcast
JobsInbroadcast is a new recruitment site aimed at Broadcast professionals.
Documentary Films .Net
Documentary news, reviews, and resources.
