A-Z Databases
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Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches
A database of over 1,700 onstage acceptance speeches given by Academy Award winners and acceptors; many records include a video clip.
Academy Awards Ceremony Participants 🔒
A database including names, credits and descriptions of participation for cast and crew of Academy Awards shows, pre-shows, Governors Awards and Scientific & Technical Awards ceremonies.
A complete history of Academy Awards nominations and wins; results can be sorted by personal name, film title or award year/category.
Full text issues of member newsletters, annual reports, technical articles, and other publications produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as selected photographs, ephemera, and other materials documenting the history of the organization.
An inventory of library holdings for and information on past Academy and Academy Foundation programs and events; these include tributes, screenings, lectures, seminars, and exhibits, as well as the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and the Student Academy Awards.
Online database for U.S. feature films, 1911-1970; early motion pictures, 1893-1910. Provides credits, synopses and historical notes. More reliable than most film databases.
The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993 with full or short records for films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. New records are created by the AFI editorial team and added each year.
American Silent Feature Film Database
The database represents the first comprehensive survey of the survival of American silent feature films. It contains information on the nearly 11,000 U.S. feature films released between 1912-1929, and holdings information about 3,300 of those titles for which elements are known to exist.
American Society of Cinematographers
Online roster of all current ASC officers and members
A list of service years of Academy board members and officers from 1927 to the present
Subscription-based genealogy research website with over 5 billion records online. The majority of records are from the United States, though records are being added for other countries, such as Canada, the UK, and European countries. Includes U.S. Social Security Death Index (1935-present), census records, as well as birth, marriage, and immigration documents
The Awards and Festivals files include information on the various film awards, other than the Academy Awards, as well as extensive coverage on hundreds of film festivals around the world. The files include clippings, press releases, programs and other materials. The Awards and Festivals Database contains names of awards and festivals represented within the files collection, but no holdings information is provided within the records. Holdings can only be checked manually by submitting a request form. Please refer to How to Access Core Collection Materials for instructions.
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The Biography Files contain materials on individuals involved with the film industry, from actors and actresses to filmmakers, craftspeople, technicians, and executives. The Biography Files Database contains holding information for individual names represented in the collection.Holdings that have not been digitized can only be checked manually by submitting a request form. Please refer toHow to Access Core Collection Materialsfor instructions.
Provides box office figures from 1989 to the present.
Provides box office figures from 1980 to the present.
British Film Institute Film and TV Database
Online database. Credits from the files of the British Film Institute
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Online database. Birth and death information from the California Department of Health Services. Government database searchable through a number of genealogy websites.
A union catalog that searches across the collections of several major French film libraries and film archives. (French language website)
Classification and Rating Administration (CARA)
Online database. CARA is a voluntary system operated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO).
Complete Index to World Film since 1895
Online database. Limited credit information for over 381,000 films
Contemporary Theater, Film and Television
Online database. Includes extensive biographical and career information on more than 20,000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more.
Core Collection Reference Files (digitized selection) 🔒
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The Core Collection reference files contain articles clipped from a wide range of newspapers and magazines, studio press releases, and publicity and advertising material. The library’s practice of actively clipping film content from periodicals began in 1928 and continues today. New material is continually added to the files. A selection of Biography, Production and Subject clippings has been digitized, and can be accessed in theCore Collection Reference Filesdatabase.
Online public membership directory.
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Online public membership directory.
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This eBook Collection provides full-text, digital access to scholarly, reference and other non-fiction books that focus on the film industry and related subject areas.
A collecion of hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques.
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FBI File: Hollywood and J. Edgar Hoover 🔒
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, held longstanding interest in the Hollywood film industry as well as deep distrust of anyone on the political left. In August 1942 he ordered the bureau's Los Angeles office to report on Communist activities of various motion picture personalities, including actors, directors, producers, and writers, and "Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry." The FBI's investigation of Hollywood chronicled the working of major film studios such as MGM, Paramount, RKO, and Warner Brothers, and studio management and labor union power struggles and show a growing operation organized in the early 1940s that continued throughout the Cold War. Between 1944 and 1954 agents conducted extensive surveillance of suspected Communists, "left-wingers," and "fellow travelers," and assembled information used by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in an effort to purge Hollywood of Communist influence.
Contact information for institutions affiliated with the International Federation of Film Archives
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals 🔒
The International Index to Film Periodicals includes full-text access to over 70 academic and popular film journals, including over 500,000 article citations from more than 345 periodicals, from 1972 to the present.
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text 🔒
Online database. Provides indexing to articles in selected periodicals, from 1972 to the present.
Volumes I and II. Contains over 1,100 scripts from Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
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Gallica (Presse de cinema section)
Collection of early French-language film periodicals digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, spanning the years 1908-1945
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Index to Academy Oral Histories 🔒
This database is an index to oral history transcripts created by the Academy Oral History Program. To view a list of interviewees, click the link next to "Search by interviewee name."
This database contains in-house indexing to journals in the Margaret Herrick Library's periodical collection. Journals indexed here can be requested at the Reference Desk.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Online database. Great for quick reference but use with caution, as it does contain errors. Credits are generally not presented as they appear on the screen.
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Library Catalog [NEEDS REVIEW]
The catalog includes bibliographic records for the library's holdings of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and scripts, as well as information about archival collections
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Manuscript Collections at Other Institutions 🔒
This database contains general information regarding manuscript collections housed at institutions other than the Margaret Herrick Library. Information in this database is compiled from public sources (clippings, websites, etc.) and is intended as a finding aid.
Media History Digital Library (Lantern)
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
MHL Digital Collections [NEEDS REVIEW]
Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections presents a curated selection of materials from the library's extensive holdings on motion picture history. Items include correspondence, photographs, casting directories, sheet music, scrapbooks, lobby cards, movie ephemera, books, film magazines and industry publications. The collections also provide access to publications of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927.
Motion Picture Scripts Database
This database details the film script holdings of seven Los Angeles area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the American Film Institute; the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; the Writers Guild of America, West; and the Warner Bros. Archives at University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
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Online database for finding research collections and personal papers in California, primarily at university libraries.
This database contains general information regarding motion picture related oral history collections. The Margaret Herrick Library's holdings are included here, along with information about collections found at other libraries and institutions.
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Production Code Files - Archives Unbound 🔒
Full documentation from a selection of 500 film titles in the Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records.
Production Code Files - online
Full documentation from a selection of 500 film titles in the Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records.
This database is a finding aid to items housed in the library's Production Files, which include clipping files, press kits, press books, lobby cards, programs and press releases. Please be advised that this database does not include all holdings for every title.
ProQuest Entertainment Industry Magazines 🔒
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers 🔒
ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Black Newspapers Collection 🔒
Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier
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A database of Oscar fashion. Each of the more than 1,700 records includes images, designer information (when known), and descriptions excerpted from historical and contemporary publications.
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Screen Studies eBook Collection 🔒
This eBook resourceprovides full-text access to the following collections: Bloomsbury & Faber Screenplays and Criticisms, BFI Film Classics,BFI Film Studies and Filmmaking.
Social Security Death Index (1962-present)
Online database. The SSDI contains basic birth and death information for persons with Social Security numbers whose deaths have been reported to the Social Security Administration. Government database searchable through a number of genealogy websites.
Subject Files (Corporate and Subject Headings) 🔒
Core Collection Subject Files include articles and other materials on film-related companies and organizations, as well as topics like censorship, digital technology, film genres, distribution, the film industry in other countries, and crafts like directing, editing, and cinematography.
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Treasures from the Film Archives
A detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, included as part of the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database.
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Online database for the U.S. Copyright Office. Contains records of copyright registrations and renewals since 1978.
UCLA Film and Television Archive (catalog)
Website for UCLA’s film archive. Includes link to online catalog of holdings.
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The Variety Archives contain almost every issue Variety has ever published — that's every page, including articles and ads, front pages and back covers. Each page is a watermarked PDF file.The Archives continue to be updated with Variety and Daily Variety content; you can expect to see issues appear about a week after their publication dates.
Victorian Popular Culture: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema 🔒
Traces the history of cinema from early visual entertainment such as shadows shows and optical illusions, travelling entertainments in the form of peepshows and panoramas, the first projected images created by the camera obscura and magic lantern, right through to the burgeoning film industry and the film star celebrities it created.
Online list of members.
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Donated to USC by Warner Communications in 1977, the USC Warner Bros. Archives [WBA] is the largest and possibly the richest single studio collection of paper documents in the world.
Online database. Includes copyright contacts for writers and others in the creative fields. Maintained by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Reading University.
The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a freely accessible, collaborative digital resource that showcases the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes in the silent film industry as directors, producers, editors, and more. WFPP focuses on the silent era, ending with the coming of sound.
Organizational website includes Membership Directory and agency contact information for writers.
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Online database of contact information for literary agents and agency with tools for submitting and tracking scripts.
*Available in Library reading room only.
Published: 11/29/2024