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- Link
- https://www.archives.gov/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Film Studies, History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Footage Sources, Information Sources
NARA an independent Federal agency that oversees the management of all Federal records in the United States. These include official film records such as wartime news and documentary films, and the March of Time news cinemagazine. The catalogue entries are exemplary.
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- Link
- http://www.iarecordings.org
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Archaeology, Engineering, History, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Information Sources, Video Sources
A site devoted to information about recordings of various industrial processes and other aspects of industrial archaeology. There are two types of programmes - ‘productions’ are fully-edited programmes with commentary and ‘compilations’ are virtually unedited collections of archive material. All programmes are available for sale through the site.
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- Link
- http://www.classicimages.com
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Journals
American film collectors’ and film buffs’ site, based on the Classic Images journal, with extensive information and images from the ‘golden age’ of Hollywood filmmaking. The strongest feature is probably the book review section ‘The Slide Area’, by Anthony Slide.
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- Link
- https://www.fiafnet.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Journals, Technology
The Journal of Film Preservation is the main periodical of FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives), and includes information and articles on theoretical and practical aspects of moving image archiving. The site includes a selected number of complete back issues.
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- Link
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Web Links
The Media Resources Center of the University of California, Berkeley, offers an exceptional resource guide, with records of the MRC’s holdings, an extensive, classified guide to film, video and broadcast reference sources on the internet (including resources specifically for media librarians and teachers), bibliographies, articles and film and video distributors. Its Online Media Resources section, with its own streamed audio and video files, and links to others, is listed separately.
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- Link
- http://www.terramedia.co.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
This interesting site focuses on the history of the media. At the core of the resource is Chronomedia, a timeline of important moments in the history of all communications media, from 1885 to 2008.
Other useful resources include British Historical Media Statistics, which includes information on cinema admissions and British usage of radio, television and video; a collection of documents on media themes; and an entertaining selection of quotations about the media, arranged by theme.
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- Link
- https://networks.h-net.org/h-film
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Education, Film Studies, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Lists, Listserv, Listservs
Collaborative platform that encourages scholarly discussion of film and media studies. The site includes monthly logs of past threads, and related information such as book reviews.
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- Link
- http://www.lincsfilm.co.uk
- Category
- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Agriculture, History, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The Lincolnshire Film Archive locates and preserves film showing life and work in the county. The site includes a complete listing of their titles and videos available for sale, on agricultural, local history and war nostalgia themes.
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- http://edison.rutgers.edu
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- American Studies, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is progressively making the papers of Thomas Edison available, in microfilm and book form, and online. The online version gives researchers access to Edison’s papers 1850-1898, which includes the period when he was working on the development of motion pictures. The texts are for the specialist, and the searching system is a little complex, but the results are superb. The identifications and indexing are admirably thorough, and eventually one has access to images of the original documents. Precisely the sort of site to demonstrate what the Internet is for.
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- Link
- http://www.otr.com/index.shtml
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Podcasting, Web Links
A nostalgia site for American radio which is wide-ranging and informative, including useful sections on radio news (commentators, major stories and series such as The March of Time), science fiction, private eyes, comedy and mystery. Its radio links page with short, helpful descriptions is valuable. It now offers podcasts of archive radio programmes, include Flash Gordon episodes.
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