Institutions which house original films, scripts, production records, and other primary sources related to film-making, and make them available for research.
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  • Academy Film Archive
    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.
  • National Center for Jewish Film
    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.
  • Filmmakers Library
    Collects, distributes, sells and leases documentary films and videos primarily for educational use. Subjects include psychology, sociology, anthropology and multicultural issues.
  • UCLA Film and Television Archive
    California-based museum, containing over 220,000 films and television programs and newsreel footage. Items are available to the public via screenings, research facilities, and licensing as stock footage.
  • ScreenSound Australia
    Seeks to collect, preserve and share Australia's audio visual heritage.
  • Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive
    Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.
  • Association of Moving Image Archivists
    Organization devoted to advancing the field of moving image archiving. Includes information on membership, conferences, publications, awards, and interest groups.
  • San Francisco Media Archive
    Collection of historically important films. General information including donation guidelines.
  • The New Zealand Film Archive
    The Archive collects, protects and projects New Zealand's film and television history. Hosts nation-wide and online exhibitions, screenings and education programmes. Has research libraries in Auckland and Wellington.
  • The Ransom Center - Film Collection
    Located in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas. Various collections and reading rooms.
  • Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust 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.
  • BBC Learning Studies
    Video resources from the world's largest educational TV archive, incorporating a full licence to use in education and training.
  • The Open Video Project
    Sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
  • George Eastman House: Motion Picture Collections
    Collects and interprets images, films, and equipment in the disciplines of photography and motion pictures.
  • Anthology Film Archives
    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.
  • Mediatèque
    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]
  • Fleischarchive.org
    Archive of Thorsten Fleisch, hosting scientific and educational silent films, encoded in divx format. Includes a title index. [German and English]
  • The Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Museum
    Collection includes over 1100 artifacts, photographs, posters, periodicals, films and silent movie memorabilia. Includes admission rates and hours, by appointment only. Located in Austin, Texas, United States.
  • Internet Moving Images Archive
    From the Prelinger Archive, thousands of digitalized industrial, educational, travel, propaganda and other short films from 1903 to the 1970s available for free, online.
  • ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog
    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.
  • American Film Institute: Louis B Mayer Library
    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.
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
    Centre for study and education with museum, gallery and film archive. Located in Berkeley, California.
  • British Film Institute:National Film and Television Archive
    Largest collection of television and film titles in Europe. Offers access to titles on several video formats.
  • Prelinger Archives
    Collection of advertising, amateur, educational and industrial films that date from 1903 to 1990. Historical and bibliographical resources on these genres.
  • National Film Archive of Thailand
    Information about the collection [English and Thai].
  • Public Domain Flicks
    Offers downloads of full-length movies that are in the public domain.
  • Screen Archive South East
    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.
  • Moving History
    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.
  • Harvard Film Archive
    Collects and screens fine foreign, art, historical, and other films.
  • National Film Preservation Board
    A public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies and similar institutions.
  • Web Search

  • Art film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_film
    The term "art film" is much more widely used in the United States than in Europe, ... Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of ...[2008/11/22]
  • Film Arts Foundation
    URL : www.filmarts.org
    Providing low-cost services to independent film and video makers.[2008/11/24]
  • New England Academy of Film Arts -- Home Page
    URL : neafilmarts.org
    Film, Film school, CT, Connecticut, MA, Massachusetts, New England, School, ... NEA Film Arts also provides Filmmaking programs throughout the year for Greater ...[2007/11/02]
  • ArtFilm.org: The Program for Art on Film
    URL : artfilm.org
    Art on Film Online is a clearinghouse for information about film, video, CD-ROM ... All materials and design © 1997-2000 Program for Art on Film, Inc. ...[2008/10/14]
  • Film Art Doco
    URL : filmartdoco.com
    MR NEAL IS ENTITLED TO BE AN AGITATOR), or directly through Film Art Doco (• CONSPIRACY, ... Film Art Doco presents. HUNT ANGELS. Starring Ben Mendelsohn and ...[2007/05/15]
  • Minnesota Film Arts
    URL : mnfilmarts.org/index.php
    Minnesota Film Arts' is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an active and living appreciation of the film arts in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. ...[2008/11/27]
  • Observations on film art and FILM ART
    URL : www.davidbordwell.net/blog
    • Film Art: An Introduction. • The Way Hollywood Tells It. • Figures Traced In Light ... what kind of art? The Celestial Multiplex. Film forgery. Movies still ...[2008/11/30]
  • Film Arts Foundation
    URL : www.filmarts.org/about.php
    Film Arts Foundation's achievements have garnered the admiration and respect of ... Film Arts members have either won or been nominated for over thirty Academy ...[2008/11/28]
  • CBC.ca News - Arts - Film
    URL : www.cbc.ca/arts/film
    Arts | Film. Slumdog Millionaire, Hunger dominate British indie film gala ... A look at this year's Genie nominees for best Canadian film By CBC Arts Online staff ...[2008/12/01]
  • MySpace.com - Film Arts Revolution - New York, NY - www.myspace.com ...
    URL : profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&...
    MySpace filmmaker profile for Film Arts Revolution with release dates, trailers, posters, pictures, blogs, cast/crew information, downloads and more[2008/11/26]
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