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Library Guide for ARTH 556
Moving Pictures: American Art and
Early Film,
1880–1910
Professor Nancy Mowll Mathews,
Fall 2005
Karen A. Bucky,
Collections Access & Reference Librarian
Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute Library
In
this online version of the Library Guide, hyperlinks have been made to
databases and websites where possible. If a connection to a database does not
work, connect to the Clark Electronic
Resources page and try to connect from there. For most databases,
authorized connection is by IP range and therefore is only possible from within
the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute or Williams College libraries.
Finding Background Information:
General Reference Sources
Bibliographie der Photo- und Film-Zeitschriften, 1840–1940 /
Bibliography of Photographic and Cinematographic Periodicals, 1840–1940 /
Bibliographie des Périodiques Photo-Cinéma, 1840–1940. Edited by Walter Koelzer. Düsseldorf: Editionen der Foto Brell, 1992.
Alphabetical title listing of 2,000+ international
periodicals with information on language, country of origin, publication dates,
frequency, holding libraries, and sources consulted. Annotations when included
are in English, French, and German. Periodicals are indexed by country of
origin. There is also a personal and corporate name index. The union catalog
usefulness of this book is not necessarily diminished by the modern online
catalog; first because not all international libraries are online and second
because many libraries still do not have older materials cataloged
electronically.
Clark Reference ZNE2606 K64
Encyclopedia
of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes: A Comprehensive
Reference to Reproduction Technologies, Containing Invaluable Information on
over 1500 Processes. Luis Nadeau.
Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994.
Definitions, explanations, and in some cases illustrations
of terminology, technical procedures, equipment, and materials.
Cross-references help to clarify relationships between the many terms that were
coined and invented in this fertile field. Does not include biographical
entries, but an index to proper names allows finding who invented or used what.
Each entry includes at least one reference for further reading, and most
include many. Includes an index of German terms.
Clark Reference NE850 A1 N32 1994
Encyclopedia
of the Magic Lantern. Edited by
David Robinson, Stephen Herbert, and Richard Crangle. London: The Magic Lantern
Society, 2001.
A comprehensive reference source to the history, technology, uses, and aesthetics of the optical lantern in its numerous forms. Entries for inventors and patentees, makers and merchants, showmen, writers and lecturers, genres and mechanisms of slides, organizations that used magic lanterns, collectors, and museums. Includes a fairly extensive bibliography.
Clark Reference NE2600 A1 E63
Encyclopedia
of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Paul Finkelman.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
Alphabetical listing of articles, in themselves not
substantial but providing a respectable overview and with good bibliographies.
Examples include advertising, political cartoons, civil rights, class,
consumerism, labor movement, merchandising, museums, newspapers and the press,
working-class culture, and work.
Sawyer Reference E169.1 .E626
2001
Films and
Videos on Photography. Compiled by
Program for Art on Film and Direction des Musées de France. New York: Program
for Art on Film, 1990.
Documentary and educational films about photography,
bringing together records from the Critical Inventory of Films on Art (compiled
by the Program for Art on Film) and from the Base Audiart (compiled by the
Musées de France). Look in the subject index under Motion to find material on
Muybridge, Marey, animals in motion, and other relevant items. See also, under
Internet Resources, Program for Art on
Film Online, an online database also produced by Program for Art on Film.
Clark Reference NE2600 P76
Macmillan
Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators. Edited by Turner Browne and Elaine Partnow. New York:
Macmillan, 1983.
Each entry gives basic biographical information (birth and
death dates, notable family members, education and influences, employment,
memberships, awards and achievements) as well as each person’s contribution to
the field of photography, publications by and about the person, and collections
of the person’s work. Includes photographers, photojournalists, artists,
inventors, scientists, chemists, dealers, curators, and others who made
important contributions to the field from its beginnings to the early 1980s.
Clark Reference NE2600 A1 B76
Nineteenth-Century
Photography: An Annotated Bibliography, 1839–1879. William S. Johnson. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
Annotated references to books and articles published 1839 to
1990 on 19th-century photography.
Although the book does not extend through the time period dealt with in
this course, it does reference books and articles on Muybridge and others
involved in early cinema. Includes a lengthy “Special Topic” section on
photomechanical reproduction. A projected Volume II will cover 1880–1914, and
promises references on Marey and others.
Sawyer Reference TR15 .J64 1990
Pre-cinema
History: An Encyclopaedia and Annotated Bibliography of the Moving Image Before
1896. Hermann Hecht;
edited by Ann Hecht. London: Bowker
Saur/BFI, 1993.
Covers the history of projection, visual entertainments, and
the beginnings of the cinema to 1896. Entries are in order of publication, and
include books, articles, patent specifications, treatises, and other published
literature from the beginning of the 16th century to 1985. Most of
the literature comes from the U.S. and Europe, and most is in English or
German. Name and subject indexes provide access to the chronologically arranged
material. Annotations and cited works are a goldmine of information on the
literature of early cinema.
Clark Stacks NE2606 H43
Histories of Early Film and Photography;
The Ashcan School
Braun, Marta. Picturing
Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Reconstructs Marey’s photographic and cinematographic career
and places him in his personal and historical intellectual context. Draws
largely on Marey’s work, including writings, photographic negatives and prints,
chronographic and photographic experiments, instruments and inventions.
Includes chapters on his legacy: his influence (with Muybridge) on motion
pictures, on art and modernism, and on the organization of work. Appendixes are
catalogs of Marey’s photographic negatives and prints, his films, and his
photographic experiments.
Clark Stacks NE2698 M326 B73
Sawyer Stacks TR840 .B73 1992
Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions
of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Sketches the outlines of a “genealogy of attention” since
the 19th century, and details its role in the modernization of
subjectivity. Examines how ideas about attention and perception “were
transformed in the 19th century alongside the emergence of new technological
forms of spectacle, display, projection, attraction, and recording” and how
this transformation was central to key social, philosophical, and aesthetic
issues during the 19th and into the 20th century.
Clark Stacks N6490 C73
Sawyer Stacks BF378 .S45 C73 1999
———. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and
Modernity in the Nineteenth Century.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Examines the significance of certain optical devices as a
means to study the “reorganization of vision” in the first half of the 19th
century, looking at events and forces that “produced a new kind of
observer.” Addresses questions these
raise about how the “new set of relations between the body on the one hand and
forms of institutional and discursive power on the other redefined the status
of an observing subject.”
Clark Stacks N6450 C69
Sawyer Stacks N7430.5 .C7 1990
Fell, John, ed. Film
Before Griffith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Collection of articles that challenge the notion that cinema
“began” with D.W. Griffith and Hollywood.
Three sections: 1) Place and Production, with articles on the
Kinetoscope, the Vitascope, and other innovations in Canada, Australia, and
Yorkshire; 2) Exhibition and Distribution, with articles on Hale, Hadley,
Lumiere, early picture shows, and motion picture audiences; 3) The Films, with
articles on film narrative, form, structural patterning, temporality and
narrativity, space, and other formal and structural questions. Includes a brief
bibliography.
Sawyer Stacks PN1993.5 .A1 F48 1983
Hamber, Anthony J. “A
Higher Branch of the Art”: Photographing the Fine Arts in England, 1839–1880.
Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1996.
Examines how photography was used to document the fine and
decorative arts in the 19th century, thereby not only shaping the
commercial and artistic development of photography but also transforming the
study and connoisseurship of art. Representative chapters include “The mid-19th-century
art world and photography” and “Art societies, reproduction, and photography.”
Well illustrated; includes a lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary
sources.
Clark Stacks NE2643 H35
Sawyer Stacks TR657 .H363 1996
Herbert, Stephen. A
History of Pre-Cinema. London: Routledge, 2000.
Volume 1 is a compilation of short articles and texts culled
from periodicals, newspapers, and books, mostly published between 1839 and
1901, on camera obscura, photography, stereoscopy, moving photographs,
chronophotography, and optical/philosophical toys. Volume 2 is a similar
compilation on peepshows, panorama and diorama, magic mirrors, shadowplay,
magic lanterns, Pepper’s Ghost, recreative science, and various optical devices.
Volume 3 is a complete reprint of Movement
in Two Dimensions by Olive Cook.
Clark Stacks NE2609 H573 (vols.
1–3)
Liesegang, Franz Paul.
Dates and Sources: A Contribution to the History of the Art of Projection and
to Cinematography. Edited by Hermann Hecht. London: Magic Lantern Society,
1986.
Clark Stacks (On Order)
Lindsay, Vachel. The
Art of the Moving Picture. New York: Macmillan, 1915.
Written as “a basis for photoplay criticism in America,” a
sort of practical guide for moving picture audiences. Includes chapters on the
three types of photoplay: the photoplay of action (where physical forces and
speed provide the source of drama), of intimacy (e.g. idylls and village
comedies), and of splendor (e.g. patriotic and religious splendor); also chapters
comparing photoplay to sculpture, painting, architecture, and theater. See also
The Art of the Moving Picture: Being the
1992 Revision of the Book First Issued in 1915 (Sawyer Stacks PN1994 .L5 1970), which includes an introduction by
Stanley Kauffmann.
Sawyer Stacks PN1994 .L5
Mannoni, Laurent. The
Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema. (Translation of Le Grand Art de la Lumiere et de l’Ombre.) Exeter: University of
Exeter Press, 2000.
Groundbreaking work on the history of pre-cinema, a
panoramic history from camera obscura and peep-show to the arrival of cinema in
1896 that places the developments of illuminated, moving, or technological
images in their historical, social, and cultural context.
Clark Stacks NE2609
M36
Sawyer Stacks TR848 .M27413 2000
Musser, Charles. Before
the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Combines a biography of Edwin S. Porter with an
institutional history of the Edison Manufacturing Company from the beginning of
commercial motion pictures through 1909, based on exhaustive primary-source
research (see Notes, pp. 491–550).
Shows how Porter’s innovations and career were linked to structural
changes in the industry, and how both reflect turn-of-the-century economic and
social culture.
Sawyer Stacks PN1998.3 .P67 M87
1991
———. Edison Motion Pictures, 1889–1900: An
Annotated Filmography. Gemona, Italy: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Catalog of all the Edison films made between 1890 and 1900.
Information about each film includes title and alternative titles, length,
copyright holder and date, producer, camera, cast and production personnel,
production date, location, source, description (taken in each case from period
documents, usually trade catalogs or advertisements), source of the
description, subject headings, archive where film can be found, citations to
documents providing information on the film, and notes on points of interest to
researchers that do not fit in other fields. Indexes by title,
personal/corporate names, subject, location, cultural sources, and
archival/private holdings. Includes a substantial introductory essay.
Sawyer Stacks PN1999 .T47 M87 1997
———. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen
to 1907. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1990.
Volume One in a projected 10-volume series on the history of
the American cinema. Looks at the first 12 years of cinema, from 1895 to 1907.
Includes chapters on cinema’s novelty years (1896–1897), the role of the
exhibitor (1897–1900), the rise of production companies (1900–1905) and the
beginning of the Nickelodeon Era (1905–1907).
Clark Stacks NE2612 M87
Sawyer Stacks PN1993.5.U6 H55 v.1
Musser, Charles, and Carol Nelson. High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of
Traveling Exhibition, 1880–1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1991.
Documents the story of Lyman H. Howe, who became “America’s
foremost traveling motion picture exhibitor” for 20 years, bringing
“urban-based entertainments to the American heartland.” Examines how commercial
amusements both reflected and shaped the beliefs, values, and culture of the
time, addressing questions of economics and class.
Sawyer Stacks PN1998.3 .H69 M87
1991
Niver, Kemp R. Early
Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Motion Picture,
Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, 1985.
Catalog and guide to the 3,000+ films in the Library of
Congress Paper Print Collection. Each entry includes title, copyright or
distributor/producer, production credits, location and date of production,
length and LC shelf location number, identification information, a brief
summary, and notes on points of interest to researchers that do not fit in
other fields. Indexes for credits and names/subjects.
Sawyer Stacks PN1997.75 .L5 1985
The Origins of
the Cinema: A Mid-Summer 1968 Exhibition.
Cardiff: Printed by Edward Roberts Ltd., 1968.
Exhibition catalog for a show at Dyvenor Castle, Cardiff, in
1968. The exhibit was divided into three sections: 1) optical entertainments
and the persistence of vision, 2) the
projected image, and 3) photography,
stereography, and the analysis of motion.
For each section, the catalog gives a brief explanatory essay and a list
of the items exhibited. Items include dioramas and panoramas, perspective
views, peepshows, transparencies, kaleidoscopes, anamorphoses, the zootrope and
praxinoscope, the magic lantern, phantasmagoria, animated slides, dissolving
views, photography and stereoscopy, and various materials by Muybridge and
Marey.
Clark Stacks NE2609 D96 1968
Popple, Simon, and Vanessa Toulmin, eds. Visual Delights: Essays on the Popular and Projected Image in the 19th
Century. Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 2000.
Clark Stacks NE2643 V27 2000
Prodger, Phillip. Time
Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Exhibition catalog for the 2003 show at Iris and B. Gerald
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford, which focused on Muybridge’s
achievements as a photographic artist, concentrating on the motion studies he
began in California in the 1870s and continued at the University of Pennsylvania
from 1884 to 1886 and exploring what was original and what was unique about his
art. Includes essays on Muybridge and
his legacy, the rise of the instantaneous photography movement, 1839–78, and
the new frontier of instantaneous photography. Also includes an essay by Tom
Gunning.
Clark Stacks NE2698 M993 S83
Sawyer Stacks TR840 .P76 2003
Rossell, Deac. Living
Pictures: The Origins of the Movies. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1998.
“A first attempt to examine the early days of moving pictures
from a nonlinear and multidirectional perspective.” Tom Gunning describes this
book as “the most reliable handbook of the interlocking attempts to devise
motion pictures in the 19th century… [it] offers a wonderful sense
of the variety of approaches tried out by motion picture technicians…[and]
demonstrates the visual qualities of vanished techniques of projection.”
Sawyer Stacks TR848 .R68 1998
Sawyer Electronic Resource
Young, Mahonri Sharp. The
Eight: The Realist Revolt in American Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill
Publications, 1973.
Brief biographies of Robert Henri, John Sloan, Arthur B.
Davies, Ernest Lawson, William Glackens, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, and
Everett Shinn. Includes color plates of important works, a chronology, and a
select bibliography.
Clark Stacks ND212 Y68
Zurier, Rebecca, et al. Metropolitan
Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art and New York:
Norton, 1995.
Documents and depicts the turn-of-the-century New York City
that was home and studio to the group of artists dubbed “the Ashcan School” by
their critics; also called The Eight. Juxtaposes paintings with reproductions
of contemporary materials such as postcards and advertisements that show how
the artists’ works reflect the places, social concerns, and events of their
time.
Clark Stacks ND212 S565 1995
Sawyer Stacks N6512.5 .E4 Z87
1995
Finding Books:
Online Catalogs and Union
Catalogs
Online Catalogs
Use the Clark library online
catalog and Francis, the Williams College
online catalog, to search for books in our own library system.
On the Clark
Electronic Resources page, click Selected
regional and art library catalogs to find links to the online catalogs
of research/art libraries such as Harvard, Yale, the Getty, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and many others.
Union Catalogs
Eureka and WorldCat
are databases that represent the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide.
Materials not available in the Clark or Williams libraries can be requested
through Interlibrary Loan. Connect to these union catalogs on the Clark
Electronic Resources page, or through Francis.
WorldCat’s
member libraries run the gamut of
types of libraries: public, academic, research, special, and some larger school
libraries. The database is larger and includes “popular” materials sometimes
not available on Eureka.
Eureka’s member libraries are the major research libraries; the
database is smaller but more select, often including scholarly material not
available on WorldCat.
BLC Virtual Catalog,
accessed through Francis, is a union catalog of the holdings
of other New England libraries such as Brown, the Boston Public Library, Boston
University, University of New Hampshire, and University of Massachusetts.
Materials found through BLC can be requested electronically through Williams’
Interlibrary Loan system.
Searching
an online catalog using Library of Congress subject headings is a more precise
way of searching than using keywords, especially given that words such as
“film” and “art” are more often than not used in ways that have nothing to do
with what you are looking for. The
following subject headings will be especially useful for this course.
Art and motion
pictures
Art in motion
pictures
Boxing – United
States – history
Art and cinema
Ashcan school of art
Dance in art
Eight (Group)
Film criticism
Modern Dance –
history
Motion picture
producers and directors
Motion pictures –
bibliography
Motion pictures –
history
Motion pictures and
history
Motion pictures and
the arts
Painting and motion
pictures
Photography and art
Photography of art
Silent films
Visual culture
Indexes to Secondary-Source
Materials
These
indexes can be used to find articles, dissertations, and books published
(mostly) after 1980. One exception is Science
Citation Index, which covers journals back to 1900 and may therefore be a
source of articles on technical processes and equipment.
These two databases index scholarly articles, dissertations,
and book reviews in the field of history and culture. AHL covers North America (United States
and Canada), from prehistory to the present; HA covers world history, excluding the United States and Canada,
from 1450 to the present. They are produced by the same company, and
once logged into one database you can switch to the other by clicking a button
on the sidebar. Hotlinks take you to articles in e-journals owned by Williams.
Journal coverage is from 1954 to the present.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Indexes articles in fine arts journals, book reviews, and
articles in museum bulletins for any period or genre of art, from classical
antiquity to the present. Subjects such as archaeology, architectural history,
museum studies, and the decorative arts are also included.
AA covers from 1984 to the present, with abstracts from 1994; AIR covers 1929 to 1984.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Arts and Humanities
Citation Index (AHCI)
Social Sciences Citation Index
(SSCI)
(Click “Go” button for “Web of Science” in small print on
initial screen to enter database. Then be sure to de-select the databases you
do NOT want to search.) These databases can be used to do subject searches, but
their power lies in cited reference searching. Starting with an important
author or influential source, you can retrieve articles that cite that source,
thus allowing you to trace an idea or influence forward in time. You can also
find articles that cite the same material.
Journal coverage is
from 1900 to the present (SCI), 1975
to the present (AHCI), and 1956 to
the present (SSCI). This database can
be quite difficult to use—ask for help if you need it!
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Bibliography
of the History of Art (BHA)
Provides citations and abstracts for materials
on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Indexes
journal articles, books, essays, conference proceedings, and exhibition
catalogs in the field of art history. Covers mostly visual arts. BHA merges three databases: Bibliography of the History of Art (1990
to the present), International Repertory of the Literature of Art (1975–1989), and Repertoire
d’Art et d’Archeolgie (1973–1989). To search further back in time, see the
print title, below.
Clark/Williams
Electronic Resources
Répertoire d’art et d’archéologie. Paris: Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie, 1910–1989.
Clark Reference ZN5300 R46
Indexes theses and dissertations from academic institutions in
North America, Britain, and Europe from 1861 to the present. Abstracts for
dissertations were added to the database in 1980; abstracts for theses in 1988.
Dissertations can be an especially rich source for materials on a subject, and
they include exhaustive bibliographies. Most dissertations can be obtained on
Interlibrary Loan in microformat.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Index to scholarly journals in the humanities,
including archaeology, classical studies, folklore, history, journalism,
literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. Good source for
scholarly articles on film. Two useful descriptor terms to keep in mind are:
art-in-motion-pictures and motion-pictures-in-art.
Coverage
is from 1980 to the present. For earlier coverage, consult the print indexes at
Sawyer in the Reference area: Humanities
Index (1974 to the present), Social
Sciences and Humanities Index (1966–1974), and International Index (1907–1965).
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
International Index to the Performing Arts
(IIPA)
Index to popular and scholarly journals covering dance,
film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft,
magic, musical theatre and performance art. Abstracts from 1998 forward.
Coverage is from 1964 to the present.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Indexes journals, monographs, working papers, proceedings,
and other formats in the fields of languages, literature, linguistics, and
folklore. Includes articles on film studies and reviews. Descriptor terms to
try: film, compared-to-art, relationship-to-painting.
Coverage is from 1963 to the present.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Tried-and-true index to a wide variety
of U.S. and Canadian general-interest periodicals and popular, non-technical
magazines. Can be used to find articles on early cinema and on photography.
Think creatively when searching; subject headings are limited and so you are
essentially searching for title keywords.
Coverage is 1890–1984.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Finding 19th- and
Early 20th-Century Materials
Index to 19th-century
American Art Periodicals
Index to “nearly all” art journals published in the United
States between 1840 and 1907. Each issue is indexed completely, including
articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.
Clark Electronic Resources
London
Times Digital Archive 1785–1985
Searchable full-text archive. Contains scanned images of the
full London Times including advertisements,
editorials, reviews, stock exchange tables, and weather reports. The Sunday
edition is not included.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Full text of the New
York Times, 1851–1999. “Document type” dropdown box allows searching by
type of article (feature, editorial, stock quote, review, etc.) It’s a good
idea to limit a search to searching citation and abstract, and you can also
limit by time period.
Clark/Williams Electronic
Resources
Collection of indexes to a variety of 19th-century
publications, including English and American books, government documents, and
journal and newspaper articles (e.g. the New
York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s). Citations only.
Clark Electronic Resources page
PCI (Periodicals Contents
Index), 1770–1993
A major retrospective electronic indexing
project that covers mainly scholarly and academic journals in the humanities
and social sciences from their beginnings to the 1990s. Citations only.
Clark/Williams
Electronic Resources
Pro-Quest
Index to Historical Newspapers
Indexes (among other titles) the Chicago Tribune, the Los
Angeles Times, the New York Times,
and the Boston Globe. Can search for
advertisements. Full-text. Coverage varies from publication to publication.
Williams Electronic Indexes and
Databases
Online Resources
Making of America Journals: 19th Century
MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social
history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is
particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently
contains the full text of approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles
with 19th century imprints.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/
The Nineteenth
Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory project;
integrates the two parts of the Making of America project at Michigan and
Cornell. Books and periodicals
published mostly during the latter half of the 19th century. Subject
areas include education, American history, sociology, psychology, and science
and technology. Periodicals include
Harper’s Weekly, Atlantic Monthly,
New Englander, North American Review,
Punchinello, and Scientific American. Full text.
Searchable by keyword, author, title, and subject.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
Film Archives and Holdings
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences Film Archive
Does not include a catalog or database, but does include
contact information and information on how to request film prints and how to
use the archive. See also the Library of Congress site (National Film
Preservation Board, Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and
Recorded Sound Division, under Internet Resources, below) for more information.
http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/index.html
The Film
Catalog: A List of the Holdings of the Museum of Modern Art. Jon Gartenberg, general ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.
MOMA has the strongest international film collection in the
U.S., incorporating all periods and genres.
(See also the link to “Museum of Modern Art: Film and Video Collection,”
below.)
Sawyer Reference PN1993.45 .M88
1985
George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
GEH is “a leading force in the field, with holdings of over
25,000 titles and a collection of stills, posters and papers with over 3
million artifacts.” Collection strengths include the silent era of filmmaking
(1895–1928), the golden age of Hollywood (the 1920s to the 1940s) and silent
German cinema, creating a core collection of classics “unrivaled for its
quality and diversity.” Links to archival film loans, research requests, and
footage requests.
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/motion_picture.asp
Museum of Modern Art:
Film and Video Collection
Links to information on the Celeste Bartos Film
Study Center, the Circulating Film and Video Library, and the Film Stills
Archive (temporarily closed due to a renovation project).
http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/film_media/
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Contains over 220,000 films and TV programs, and 27,000 feet
of newsreel footage. Film collection contains materials dating back to the
1890s. To search the online database of holdings, click “Access” and then click
the link to the online catalog (or simply connect to http://cinema.library.ucla.edu).
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
World
Directory of Moving Image and Sound Archives.
Wolfgang Klaue, ed. Munich and New Providence: K.G. Saur, 1993.
Self-admittedly inadequate, “outdated the minute it is
published,” and containing only the most cursory information about many of the
collections listed, this book is nevertheless useful as a starting point for
locating archival collections on film. Browse sections for France, the U.K.,
and the U.S. Most of the repositories listed will by now most likely have
online websites. See also the link to Moving Image Collections, under Finding Archival
Material, below.
Sawyer Stacks PN1993.4 .W68 1993
Finding Archival Material
Archival
Resources: Collections and Finding Aids
Database of archival collections in research libraries that
are members of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), and archival finding aids
created by those libraries as tools to access their collections. Search results
for finding aids are displayed first, and you must click the link at the top of
the screen to see the records for archival collections. Look here to find
records for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, the Thomas Edison
Archives, the Eadweard Muybridge Papers at the University of Pennsylvania, and
many other archival collections.
Clark Electronic Resources
The AAA is a rich archive of papers on American art and
artists. Search the online catalog to find (for instance) the George Hendricks
Motion Picture History Papers, the Thomas Eakins Letters 1866–1934, the Library
Company of Philadelphia Print Department photograph collection, [ca. 1850]–1890
(these include Eakins’ motion studies), University of Pennsylvania papers
concerning Eadweard Muybridge’s studies on animal locomotion, 1886–1901, and
many other treasure troves. Collections on microfilm may be borrowed through
interlibrary loan from the AAA.
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/catalog.htm