The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to train filmmakers and preserve America's vanishing film heritage. Visit to watch old movie clips, find lists of Oscar winners, or search their comprehensive filmographic database.
The highlight of our Early Cinema collection is the 1907 to 1927 run of the Moving Picture World, one of the earliest trade papers of the motion picture industry.
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.
If you are interested in film sound, then make sure to visit this site. It offers a glossary of technical sound terms, links to articles, and interviews with sound designers.
Based in Montréal, Offscreen is a wide-ranging film journal that covers film festivals, retrospectives, film forums, and both popular and more academic events.
Founded in 1959, SCMS is a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.
Know for their award-winning, original film supplements, the Criterion Collection site offers streaming video of classic films as well as what's happening in international art cinema.
