Film & Cinema: Web Sources

An industry-based box office reporting service that that says is it "the most comprehensive box office tracking available online"

Provides access to their newsreel archive that dates from the early 20th century. Good source for coverage of World War I and II.

CBC makes available audio and video clips of significant moments in Canadian history and culture using its news and current affairs programs as source material. Content is organized by broad subject headings, with film and television related events under Arts and Entertainment.

"Quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials"

A non-profit initiative that provides access to the contents of film and television trade and fan magazines that are now in the public domain. Digitization is ongoing and dependent on the contributions of magazine owners and donors. Keyword searching is via individual issues of magazines or across the magazine collection. Magazines are also grouped into subject areas like Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System Collection, Broadcasting Collection, etc.

Features exhibition documentation, dating back to 1929, that is being updated regularly. Film Series is a category type, and can be searched by film title and individual name.

This tool replaces Sherpa Romeo, Sherpa Juliet, and OpenDOAR. Search the authoritative international directory of academic open access repositories. Searching is possible at the repository level and at the repository content level.

Drawing on the resources of archives, the grandson of the company founder provides online access to films (also available on DVD) made by Edwin Tanhouser during the second decade of the 20th century. Original music and summary descriptions accompany each film.

A television channel specializing in classic Hollywood movies that also provides a database of information, based on reliable sources for credit and synopsis, and supported by reviews and video clips.

Accessible via the Internet Archive, and available because Universal Studios gifted the copyright to the American people. The Newsreels were issued twice/week and contained several short news stories.

Sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, it is a "freely accessible, collaborative online database that showcases the hundreds of women who worked behind-the-scenes in the silent film industry as directors, producers, editors, and more. "