Open Access Resources listed in UMD’s Database Finder
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Description: Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America Watch and listen.
Description: Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print archives, and
university institutional repositories.
Description: Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 351 billion archived web pages.
Description: Includes reviews, plot summaries, release dates, cast and crew information, and much more about thousands of films.
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Comprehensive directory of useful websites for Japanese Studies in the world, divided by subject categories. It gives addresses and telephone numbers of each organization. (Film, TV, Anime inc.)
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Legendary movie director Kurosawa Akira's materials can now be seen for the first time in the Kurosawa Digital Archive. Totaling 27,431 items, the archive contains scripts, production notes and photos, scenes of which are from masterpieces such as "The Seven Samurai." Ryukoku University helped to digitize the materials. [in Japanese] Requires FLASH
Description: Provides access to the online catalog of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The searchable database includes 650,000+ bibliographic records and digital images cataloged since 1984. Rights and reproduction information is also included.
Other Open Access Resources online
Southern Methodist University - G. William Jones Film & Video Collection
Contact: filmarchive@smu.edu
The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection supports instruction and research in the Meadows School of the Arts, the Southern Methodist University, and the global moving image preservation and research community. The Collection’s primary purpose is to support education through the study, preservation, and presentation of moving images. To this end, the Collection maintains moving images in a wide variety of formats, examples of related equipment, print materials associated with moving images, and a climate-controlled storage facility.
Gene Autry collection
KRLD Newsfilm Collection, ca. 1958-1978
The Sulphur Springs pre-nickelodeon films - selections available online
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1926 feature, The Pleasure Garden
Media History Digital Library - From the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, a free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines covering every aspect of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. Always expanding, WFPP publishes original scholarship on women who worked all around the world as directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, and more.
WFPP features short career profiles on single individuals, longer thematic peer-reviewed overview essays, and shorter multimedia posts, all by film scholars, film curators, archivists, and historians. In our published profiles, we cover women who worked in national cinemas across six of the seven continents.
As of August 2023, there are 316 women represented by our published pioneer profiles.
