The University of California’s Pacific Film Archive has announced the creation of a new website, CineFiles, which may be of interest to IAMHIST members. CineFiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the PFA Library’s extensive collection covering world cinema, past and present. Citations are available for all documents, and page images are available for documents with copyright clearance. New titles and document images are added daily. CineFiles currently includes documents on the films of more than 150 major international directors, materials describing silent Soviet cinema, and PFA’s unique collection of exhibitor manuals, among other documents.
IAMHIST members may well be interested in a new resource. The Media Digital Library has been launched, providing access to significant runs of trade papers and magazines, including Moving Picture World, Film Daily, Photoplay, and Radio Broadcast among others. There are collections relating to early cinema, the Hollywood Studio System, radio and non-Theatrical films, as well as a range of technical trades and magazines. There are currently over 200,000 of digitized pages, and the archive is growing daily. Researchers can follow their blog and contribute to the forum. You can find the resource at: http://mediahistoryproject.org/. Eric Hoyt is the digitization coordinator, and welcomes feedback on the site (email: erichoyt@usc.edu). If you know of any other sources of this kind, please do let us know and we will feature them on our website.
Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.
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