Unit for
Cinema
Studies
Cinema
Studies
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Unit for
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Cinema Studies Links: The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture. This British site provides an on-line tour of this unique collection of items relating to 19th century pre-cinema history, early motion picture technology, selected stars from the 1920's to the 1940's, and Disney memorabilia. Inventing Entertainment. The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies collection of the Library of Congress site features 341 Edison motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Centennial Salute to Cinema. The Smithsonian website offers photos and descriptions of magic lanterns from an exhibition produced by the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. It also includes discussions and displays in the following topics: Movement Frame By Frame, Projecting Moving Images, and Early Motion Picture Advertisements. Domitor. This international scholarly organization specializes in early cinema. It holds annual conferences, usually in conjunction with the Pordenone Film Festival. Fort Lee Film Commission. This site, intended to interest film companies in shooting in Fort Lee, New Jersey, includes a history of the film industry in Fort Lee from 1907, when Thomas Edison's company shot Rescued from an Eagle's Nest, starring young actor D. W. Griffith, to 1948, when Oscar Micheaux shot his last film, The Betrayal. The Silent Film Bookshelf. This site reprints original documents from the silent film period about filmmakers, financial issues, the filmgoing experience and silent film production. The Spanish-American War in the Movies. This Library of Congress site exhibits films made from 1898 to 1901 by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company of the Spanish-American War -- the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. Essays and catalogue information are also supplied. Origins of American Animation. This Library of Congress site represents the development of early American animation with a collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, spanning the years 1900 to 1921 and including clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. Magic Lantern Castle Museum. This is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the history of the magic lantern. It welcomes any and all inquiries regarding Magic Lanterns, including identifying them as to makers, dates, origins, and restoration. Early Visual Media. This web site by Thomas Weynants focuses mainly on Pre-Cinema, Precursors of Photography, Early Film, and Conjuring Arts as they relate to the previous subjects.
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