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These World Wide Web sites are suggestions for finding materials which complement those available in the University Library. Be sure to search the Indexes before connecting to one of these links. 
These sites are maintained by many different organizations ; the University Library can guarantee neither the currency of the materials offered nor the connection. 
 
Let us know if you have problems or suggestions for new links.

AFI 2000: American Film Institute
URL http://www.afi.com/
Author American Film Institute 
Description Interactive, searchable website for information on the entertainment industry: film, television, stars and legends. 
Particularly useful for News, events, awards, festivals, workshops in film studies. 

Bright Lights Film Journal

URL http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/
Author Gary Morris and Gregory Battle
Description Movie analysis, history and commentary.  Was a print journal, now online.
Particularly useful for General articles on films.

British Film Institute

URL http://www.bfi.org.uk/
Author BFI
Description In-depth information on British films and filmmakers
Particularly useful for Reliable information on British films.

Cinergia

URL http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/a/sam50/cinergia/cinergia.htm
Author Sophia A. McClennen
Host Pennsylvania State University
Description

"A Web site dedicated to the study of Spanish, Latin American and LatinoCinema, Film, Movies and Media for students and scholars."

Particularly useful for Excellent site for Latin American Film information.

EMOL.org
URL http://www.emol.org/
Host Entertainment Magazine
Description Movie Magazine
Particularly useful for Has over 100 free classic movies, cartoons, and videos online.  Can download movies to Ipod, MP3 player, computer.

Google Video
URL http://video.google.com/freetoday.html
Description "Online video marketplace." Select videos are free to watch online
Particularly useful for Short films, cartoons, classics, sports, animation, music videos.

Internet Archive - Movie Archive

URL http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Author Internet Archive
Description Archive of over 36,000 digitized moving images
Particularly useful for  Short movies, classic public domain movies, news, war, politics, cartoons, advertisements and much more available for free viewing online.

The Internet Movie Database

URL http://us.imdb.com/
Author The Internet Movie Database Ltd. (an amazon.com company). 
Description Information on over 200,000 movie & TV titles, over 400,000 actors and actresses, nearly 40,000 directors, and more. 
Particularly useful for  Its rich searching capabilities and the FAQ section called the "IMDb University" to learn how to maximize use of the database. 

LAVA Latin American Video Archives

URL http://lavavideo.org/
Author LAVA
Description Mostly list of Latin American films with short description.
Particularly useful for  Searchable by director, title, subject, country, date, genre.  Also contains study material for 'African Diaspora in the Americas'

Motion Picture and Television Reading Room

URL http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html
Author Library of Congress
Description Part of American Memory Collection.  "Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library's American Memory collections."
Particularly useful for  Films on American way of life - from late 1800s to 1980s.  Short films on America at work and leisure, Vaudeville and popular entertainment, life in Nevada, early life in New York, before and after the great earthquake and fire of San Francisco, american factories, animation, Spanish-American war.  Viewable online!

SCOPE   

URL http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
Author Institute of Film Studies, University of Nottingham
Description Online journal of film studies
Particularly useful for  Peer-reviewed online journal

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