Film Studies: Archives

Includes digitized collections pertaining to the Academy awards, Academy publications, information about theaters and theater organs, Cukor and Hitchcock papers, DeMille photos, ephemera, and more...

Searchable catalog of the British Pathe newsreel footage archive which includes online previews and still from media in their collections.

This site provides an array of actual media for download including nearly 2,000 moving image files from the Prelinger Archive of ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, hundreds of complete feature films that have entered the public domain, stop motion animations, U.S. wartime propaganda, hundreds of newsreels, and much more.

Web access to motion pictures, sound recordings, and ephemera from Edison Companies, Origins of Animation, and other Library of Congress online collections.

This Library of Congress site for their Motion Picture and Television Reading Room includes descriptions of their collections, research tools, and important information about visiting and using their collections. See their guide to Researching LC Moving Image Holdings and their list of other guides and finding aids intended to help you identify materials in their collections.

"In addition to providing access to the more than 10,000 films and videos in the PFA collection, the library also makes a wide range of film-related materials available to the public for research purposes. The library’s largest and most heavily used collection comprises some 95,000 documentation files containing film reviews, press kits, and articles on filmmakers, performers, national cinemas, genres, and other topics.

Development of the motion picture, early cinema, and Hollywood in the 30s. Interviews with producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, film cutters, actors, critics... Search this collection using Oral History Online. They also have a Hollywood Film Industry project. Contact the Research Office for more information.

International list provided by the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congres