New Books
Purchase Request
If you would like to recommend that the Harvard College Library purchase a film, please submit a Purchase Request Form. Always check the HOLLIS Catalog first to verify that we indeed do not own the title.
New digital resource
I would like to tell you about a relatively new and wonderfully extensive digital resource, the Media History Digital Library.
According to their web site, they are:
"... a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 800,000 pages, and that number is growing."
Take a look, and let me know what you think! I'd be glad to provide advice, or more specific links.
Morse Media at Lamont
- Lamont Media holds a major circulating collection of approximately 18,000 titles: books on music, scores, music recordings, spoken word recordings, and visual media.
The Lothar and Eva
Just Film Stills Collection
The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection at the Harvard Film Archive contains the impressive library of approximately 800,000 film stills, pressbooks, posters, and other ephemera originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist.Film Studies links
- American Film Institute Catalog
- Academic Search Premier
- FIAF International FilmArchive Database (1972-)
- Film Index International
- Film Literature Index
- Film Stills Resource Page
- International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
- JSTOR Film Studies
- Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
- Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- Margaret Herrick Library (Motion Picture Academy
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
Harvard Film Archive
The Harvard Film Archive offers a public cinematheque program, presenting films Friday through Monday nights year round. All screenings are held in the Archive's 200-seat theater located in the historic Carpenter Center for the Arts.
- American Film Institute Catalog AFI Catalog is a national filmography documenting American films from 1893-1958 and 1961-1970. Drawing on the expertise of specialist staff at the American Film Institute (AFI), it is a key resource for the research, study and teaching of film. Films may be searched by a wide range of key terms. Full records may include the film title, release information, production information, key dates, cast and crew credits, songs/music in the film, broad subjects, specific subjects, plot summary, and source citations. Researchers at the AFI are currently completing work on films from 1956–60 and have begun research on the years 1971–80.
- Art Abstracts The database indexes 260 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.