Film Studies Center | Research Links

The University of Chicago
Film Studies Center
Cobb Hall 306
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

Tel 773.702.8596
Fax 773.702.9042

fsc@uchicago.edu

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Film Venues: Chicago & Regional

DocFilms -- the Documentary Film Group
The oldest running film society in the US, showing films nightly at the Max Palevsky Theater in Ida Noyes Hall.

Chicago Filmmakers
Independent avant garde film and video screenings throughout the year.

Chicago Reader Film listings for Chicago and suburbs.

Chicago Sun-Times Calendar - schedules of art house cinema, special film and media events, and other programs in the arts.

Gene Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago - The Film Center selects and presents significant world cinema in a non-commercial context that sets aesthetic, critical, and entertainment standards.

The Silent Film Society of Chicago
Summer Festivals and periodic screenings throughout the year.

Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) - Contemporary art center featuring visual arts, performing arts, film/video, and educational programs.

Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio) - The Wexner Center presents a wise selection of contemporary, historical, and international film otherwise unavailable to local audiences.

Women in the Directors Chair - Presents the largest and longest-running women's film and video festival in the U. S. every March, as well as offering a number of year-round programs. Website provides links to other pages devoted to women.

Film Festivals and Awards

Film Festival Directory - Database of all film festivals-- 1995 to date-- worldwide. Search by country and/or date name. Information includes description, addresses, contact names, and deadlines for entry.

and the official sites for:

Academy Awards
I'd like to thank.....get your Oscars fix here. In addition to information about the Academy, there are databases of all the Academy Awards ever given (nominees as well as winners) from 1927 to the present and for all the Scientific and Technical Awards - 1930 to the present.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
A Michigan festival of independent and experimental 16mm film held annually in March.

American Film Institute Awards

Berlin Film Festival

Chicago Film Critics Awards

Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago Underground Film Festival

Festival de Cannes

Golden Globes

LeGiornate del Cinema Muto
Pordenone Silent Film Festival held annually in the fall.

Onion City Film and Video Festival
Annual autumn fest of independent and experimental film sponsored by Chicago Filmmakers.

Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
The oldest running festival featuring films by and for the gay and lesbian community, now taking place annually in the summer.

San Francisco International Film Festival

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Campus Film Groups

International House Film Society
For program information, call 702-2274 or email i-house-films@uchicago.edu

Fire Escape Productions
The University of Chicago's student filmmaking group.

University Events Calendar
Various calendars of events, lectures, etc., on campus.

 

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Film Societies & Organizations

ASIFA - International Animated Film Association

The American Film Institute Online

Society for Cinema Studies

Chicago Filmmakers
Media arts center. Activities include film programming, filmmakers cooperative, and filmmaking classes.

Cinema S p a c e
Film studies at University of California-Berkeley.

UCLA Home Page School of Theater, Film and Television

Northwestern University, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Women in the Directors Chair

 

Film Trades, Magazines, and Journals
SCREENsite's index to scholarly film periodicals
Best for links to scholarly on-line journals.

CineMedia Guide to Magazines, Trade Publications
(some scholarly, some industry, some popular, some cult).

Hollywood Reporter
Constantly updated site all about Hollywood

Entertainment Weekly
TV, music, movies and video info

Premiere Magazine
The interactive movie magazine

Filmmaker Magazine
International Indie info including festival coverage

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Libraries, Archives and Collections
University of Chicago Libraries
The University of Chicago Library Information System (LibInfo)
Resources for Scholarship and Research in the University of Chicago Library System, including the Library Catalog and Horizon System, Indexing and Abstracting Services, General Reference Sources, other Library catalogs, Electronic Text Services, etc. Some pages may be accessible only to University of Chicago users.

University of Chicago Library, Sources by Subject--Video Holdings
List of media holdings of the University Libraries' video holdings. Members of the University community with library privileges may check out video holdings.

University of Chicago Library, Sources by Subject--Photography and Film
List of film and photography web sources, compiled and maintained by the Library Bibliographer for Art, Film and Theater.

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Other Libraries, Archives and Collections

University of Chicago Researchers
PLEASE NOTE:
In general, the collections of the following archives (especially film collections) do not circulate and cannot be loaned or rented. So, you would have to go there to do research. However, please check with individual archives for policies. If they do allow interlibrary loan of videotapes, please make arrangements through Interlibrary Loan (the Film Studies Center can't process interlibrary loans).

See also our Other Universities and our Early Cinema and Film Preservation sections for further links.

American Archives of the Factual Film
A research center for the preservation and study of 16mm non-theatrical films, the AAFF at Iowa State University collects business, educational, and documentary productions.

ArchivesUSA
Bibliographic records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript repositories throughout the United States.


Center for Motion Picture Study, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Basic information on the library and archives.

Community of Film Archives
A catalogue of  film archives in the United States complied by the National Film Preservation Foundation.  Lists contact information for each archive as well as a brief description of their holdings.

Footage.net
Commercial site for stock, archival and news footage from a number of diverse sources.

George Eastman House
Information about the collections, film program and International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.

Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive
The BFC/A is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.

Library of Congress Online Services
The Library of Congress Online System, FTP sites, LOCIS Database (be sure to read through search commands before using).

Museum of Broadcast Communication
Located in the Chicago Cultural Center, MBC's archival holdings include 9,000 hours of television broadcasts which are searchable online at this site.

National Archives and Records Administration Audiovisual Locator (NAIL) Database
The NAIL database contains 81,000 entries on items held by the NARA Still Pictures Branch and the Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch.

Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma
The Political Commercial Archive (PCA) serves as a repository for radio and television commercials.

University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Film and video collections (strong on experimental and avant-garde titles) and exhibitions at the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, UC-Berkeley.

UW-Madison South and South East Asian Film and Video Catalogs
South and Southeast Asian videos in the UW-Madison collection.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Television news media resources and archive at Vanderbilt University.

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Video and Multimedia Sources on the web (find that video!)
Pre-Cinema, Early Cinema & Silent Era
Early Motion Pictures Home Page
Information on, and downloading of, films in the Library of Congress Paper Prints Collections.

GRAFICS Early Cinema Site
GRAFICS is a research group about early cinema in Quebec, located at University of Montreal. In French.

Silent Movie Directory
For the silent movie fan or researcher--a page of links to sites on early cinema as well as usenet discussion groups, etc.

Silent Film Sources
A link page for silent film resources on the internet.

 

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Film Preservation

Association of Moving Image Archivists

The International Federation of Film Archives

National Film Preservation Foundation
Good source for preservation news and updates on the Saving the Silents film preservation project.

US National Film Registry Titles

Titles inducted by the National Film Preservation Board. Links to Home Page for Preservation Board. A related link is the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation
Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. is a nonprofit company dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and distribution of films, photographs and research materials about the Thanhouser Company, and its successor company, Thanhouser Film Corporation.

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Copyright, the Web and Multimedia
Copyright Law of the United States of America
The full version in downloadable form.

Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest
Working document prepared by representatives of the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Special Library Association, and others.

Intellectual Property Magazine
A quarterly online magazine addressing issues in law and policy for high technology.

UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy

WWW and Copyright Policy
Links to various sites about copyright, the Web and multimedia projects, including the CCUMC Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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Miscellaneous
On This Day in Movie History
Find out what happened on this day in movie history.

Drive-In Theatre
Fans of the drive-in look no further. This site covers history and hosts the schedules of still operating drive-ins.

Polish Cinema Database
Query this database for information about Polish films.

Hollywood Sign
Snapshots of the Hollywood sign, updated throughout the day.

Internet Movie Database
Large database covering many film topics.

Cinemedia
Wide-ranging index of movie-related sites. Has History/Research link.

Cinema Sites
Links to a plethora of film related information and merchandise.

SCREENsite: Film and TV Studies
Education, research, production and misc. information about film, television and video.

Mr. Showbiz
Site features "The Daily Dose; Scoop; The Writers; The Critics; The Numbers; Star Bio's; Awards," etc.

Media Collections and Resources
Film review databases and media resources indexed by the UC-Berkeley gopher.

Chicago Filmmakers Online Resources
List of online film sites compiled by Chicago Filmmakers.

Studios, Production and Distribution Companies--Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database index of production & distribution companies. These sites in turn can link to various individual film sites.

Animation World Network
Clearinghouse for animation information - includes Animation World Magazine (online), festival info.and links to amazing animation websites.

Entertainment Technology Center Home Page (University of Southern California)
Practical applications of emerging entertainment industry technologies.

 

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