This database user’s guide has been updated with Atom Egoyan used as a sample search. Each entry briefly describes a given database’s value for film studies research. Here’s an example: Academic Search Premier – 237 hits; a majority as full-textThis is a major cross-disciplinary database with a large portion of full-text content. A great resource […]
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My Favorite Website Discovery of the Summer: The Auteurs
They stream complete and comparatively beautiful versions of classic films. Mostly they’re in the business of pay per view at $2-$5 per viewing bu they do offer ten films at no charge. The free fare includes L’Avventura, Harakiri, Cleo from 5 to 7, and The Cranes are Flying. These films though are readily available on […]
Continue readingCopyright Basics – The Video
From the folks at the Copyright Clearance Center link
Continue readingClassic Movies Not on DVD
We’ve created a big wiki of classic, cult, guilty pleasure, and otherwise favorite films (700+ titles) that have yet to make it to DVD in the US. Take a look and feel welcome to add titles that we’ve missed. Among the titles on this list, here’s a sampling of what we have on VHS and […]
Continue readingA bit of esoterica: Sergei Eisenstein’s Early Drawings – Sketchbook 1914
When the noted film pioneer was but a boy of 16. Provided by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. link
Continue readingObit: Ollie Johnston, 95, Disney Animator
Mr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)(VHS 5200), was an “inbetween artist” who specialized in communicating emotion in characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with […]
Continue readingMore streaming video from the National Film Board: Aboriginal Perspectives
In their words:“The Aboriginal Perspectives module contains 33 documentaries, a short fiction film, and 5 film clips. These productions do not represent the entirety of the films on Canada’s native peoples in the NFB collection, which comprises more than 700 such works. We did want it, however, to be a representative sample of the whole. […]
Continue readingStreaming video highlight: National Film Board of Canada’s Documentary Lens
In their words: “The purpose of Documentary Lens is to show how National Film Board documentaries have portrayed Canada and the world since the founding of the Film Board in 1939.” At present there are about 50 films available in their entirety, dated 1944-2004. Most (if not all) are under 30 minutes – on topics […]
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