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Sites devoted to the history of the movies.

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• Cinerama
• Film Archives
• Magic Lantern
• Memorabilia
• Silent Movies
• Theory and Criticism

Resources in This Category

• Buckey's Film History and Resources Page

  http://cinefan.tripod.com/home.html
  Provides articles, news and commentary on film history, include sections on film preservation and conservation.

• Cinema History

  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~yahnk001/film/cinema.htm
  Chronicles the history of motion pictures and films from the silent era to the end of the 20th century.

• Classic Film Safari

  http://classicfilmsafari.tripod.com/
  Personal site providing information about classic films from 1930's through 1950's.

• Classic Films

  http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/index.html
  Features articles, images, audio clips, links and comprehensive bibliography on Hollywood's Golden Era.

• Film and History

  http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/
  Interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies. Subscriptions, events, announcements, links, and contact information.

• Film History By Decade

  http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html
  Series of web articles to provide a comprehensive survey of the history of cinema.

• Film Notes from the CMA

  http://filmnotescma.blogspot.com/
  A selection of notes from programs curated by Dennis Toth at the Columbus Museum of Art between 1979 to 1992.

• Greenbriar Picture Shows

  http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/
  This site provides rare images, original ads, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of classic Hollywood films, along with insightful commentary.

• Hollywood Lost and Found

  http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/
  Hollywood history, film facts, movie props and sound effects trivia.

• Hooray for Hollywood

  http://golden_age_films.tripod.com/
  Dedicated to the actors and actresses from Hollywood's "Golden Era" of film during the early part of the 20th century.

• IMDb - This Day in Movie History

  http://imdb.com/OnThisDay
  Births, deaths and marriages of movie stars and celebrities.

• Incomplete History of the Blind as Portrayed in Movies and TV

  http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/history/index.php3
  Reviews for television shows and films which feature blind persons.

• Inventing Entertainment

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
  The Library of Congress' online exhibit of the early motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison Companies. Includes biography and information about Thomas Edison and his experiments in motion pictures.

• Library of Congress - Motion Picture and Television Reading Room

  http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/
  Information about the library's motion picture collections and archival materials.

• Movie Movie

  http://www.moviemoviesite.com/
  A chronology of world cinema from 1878 to the present day, indexed by year and country. Welcomes content submissions from users.

• Museu del Cinema

  http://www.museudelcinema.cat/
  One of the few museums where you can journey through the 500 years of the history of images, seeing what were the predecessors and the origins of the cinema.

• Origins of Animation

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
  Development of early American animation represented by collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, spanning the years 1900-1921. Part of the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.

• PapaRotsy's E-zine

  http://paparotsy.tripod.com/
  Collection of articles focusing on the history of adult material in motion pictures and videography. Also includes lists of film performers who have died from or are living with AIDS.

• Sixties Cinema

  http://www.sixtiescinema.com/
  Features brief profiles and photographs of women in film throughout the 1960s.

• The German-Hollywood Connection

  http://www.germanhollywood.com/
  A guide to the impact on Hollywood by film people from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

• The Greatest Films

  http://www.filmsite.org/
  Interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films in the last century.

• The Hollywood Thirties

  http://hollywoodthirties.50webs.com/
  A personal homepage devoted to the history and trends of the movies of the 1930s, as well as information on leading actors/actresses of the era.

• The Monster That Ate Hollywood

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hollywood/
  PBS program explores the changing face of Hollywood and how the movie business, and movies themselves, have changed over the past 25 years.

• The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry (1930-1968)

  http://prodcode.dhwritings.com/
  For four decades, American theatrical movies were governed by a self-policing agency which restricted the content that audiences would see. This web site catalogs instance of content that was shaped by "The Code" or which circumvented or violated the restrictions.

• Walt's Wyoming Film Web

  http://www.theastrocowboy.com/
  Information about 20th century film in Wyoming, USA.

• Who's Who of Victorian Cinema

  http://www.victorian-cinema.net/
  A biographical guide to those who, behind and in front of the camera, collectively invented cinema in the 1890s.

• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

  http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/film.htm
  The motion picture history collections includes film, other visual records and manuscript collections documenting a full century of cinema.

• Women in Cinema

  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html
  A reference guide to women in motion pictures and feminist films, and covers such topics as feminism, the women's movement, and women's issues as portrayed in movies.

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