- Department of Special Collections Film Studies Collections: The University of Chicago Library's Department of Special Collections holds several collections that may be of interest to film studies scholars. The Motion Picture Stills Collection contains photos and magazine clippings documenting American films and film personalities from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, glass lantern slides, scenes from Vitaphone films, and marquee cards. Other collections are the papers of William Benton, of Ernest W. Burgess, and of Samuel Goldman, and the University Archives Film Collection, comprising videotapes and films relating to the University of Chicago and its academic programs.
- American Memory Project
Developed by the Library of Congress, this database includes motion picture collections, and films on special topics, including "Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916", "Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film", "America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915", "The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures" and more.
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Archival Resources
Contains collection records and collection guides for library and museum holdings across the country. You may search the databse for names, keywords, etc., and also view detailed digitized guides, including finding aids for University of Chicago manuscript collections.
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive
The Pacific Film Archive collection includes more than 10,000 titles, with areas of concentration in Soviet silent and Eastern European cinema, international animation, American experimental cinema, video art of the '70s, and the largest collection of Japanese cinema outside of Japan. The collection also includes an international selection of feature films and documentaries. Among the artists represented are Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Larissa Shepitko, Dziga Vertov, Gunvor Nelson, Chick Strand, and George Kuchar. It has a searchable database with over 6,000 records.
- Black Film Center/Archive
at the University of Indiana
A diverse collection of over 800 historic and contemporary Hollywood and independent films; black & white and color, silent and sound; features, documentaries, dramatic and musical shorts, comedy shorts, newsreels and animations in 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, DVD, and videocassette formats.
- Public Moving Image Archives
and Research Centers
A master list of international collections maintained by the Library of Congress.
- Regenstein holds several extensive film studies
archives on microfilm
- UCLA Film and Television Archives
at the University of California-Los Angeles.
This is the nation’s second largest collection of media materials and the largest of any university in the world. The collection holds over 220,000 television and motion picture titles. The FTA holds many of t