Public Research Centers & Archives
A comprehensive listing of Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers from around the world.
Africa & the Near East
Burkina Faso
Eritrea
Iran
Israel
- Jabotinsky Institute
- Israel Film Archive
- Weizmann Institute of Science Archives
- Yad Vashem: Archive Division
- ARI Films
- Moshe Sharet Labor Party Archive
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Malawi
Morocco
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
South Africa
- Natal Museum
- National Film, Video and Sound Archives of South Africa
- Robben Island Museum
- University of Cape Town, Centre for Popular Memory
- University of the Witwatersrand Archives and Registry (Johannesburg)
Syria
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Asia & Oceania
Afghanistan
Australia
- Archives Office of Tasmania: Film and Video Holdings
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Australian Cinémathèque--Queensland Art Gallery
- Australian War Memorial: Film Collection
- Australians at War Film Archive
- National Archives of Australia: Collections
- National Film and Sound Archive
- National Library of Australia
- John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
- J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History: State Film Archives
- National Motor Racing Museum
- Northern Territory Archive Service
Bangladesh
Brunei
Cambodia
China
India
- Film Heritage Foundation
- India, Ministry of Information, Films Division
- National Film Archive of India
Indonesia
- National Library of Indonesia
- Sinematek Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Mongolia
New Zealand
- Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, New Zealand’s moving image and sound archive.
- TV New Zealand
- National Archives of New Zealand: Film and Video Section
- University of Auckland, Archive of Maori and Pacific Music
North Korea
- JOSON MINJUJUI INMINGONGHWAGUK KUGGA YONGHWA MUNHONGO / NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE OF DPRK
Philippines
Singapore
- Asian Film Archive
- National Archives of Singapore
- National Museum of Singapore
- Singapore Film Society
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Tibet
Vietnam
Canada
- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
- Amherstburg Freedom Museum (Amherstburg, Ontario)
- Archives Canada
- Archives Nationales Du Quèbec, Archives Audiovisuelles
- Archives of Ontario: Sound and Moving Image Section
- British Columbia Archives: Moving Images
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Archive: English & French
- Canada's Digital Collections, archived at Library and Archives Canada
- Canadian Conservation Institute
- Canadian Museum of Civilization: Audiovisual Collections
- Cinematheque Ontario
- Cinèmathèque Quèbècoise
- Film Reference Library, Toronto International Film Festival
- Glenbow Museum Archives
- Kitikmeot Heritage Society
- Le Centre du patrimoine, La Sociètè historique de Saint-Boniface
- Library and Archives Canada
- Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre
- Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
- National Archives of Canada - Audio-Visual Section
- National Film Board of Canada
- National Gallery of Canada: Media Arts
- Northwest Territories Government, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center, Northwest Territories Archive
- The Cinematheque (Vancouver)
- IslandArchives.ca at the University of Prince Edward Island
- Provincial Archives of Alberta
- Provincial Archives of Manitoba
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick: Sound and Moving Images
- Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador: Still Images Section
- Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador: Film Section
- Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island
- Public Archives of Nova Scotia
- Regina City Archives
- The Rooms (archives, art gallery and museum of Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Saskatchewan Archives Board: Moving Images
- Shambhala Media
- City of Toronto Archives
- University of Alberta Special Collections
- Universitè De Moncton, Centre D'Études Acadiennes
- University of British Columbia: South Asia Film Archive
- Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Resource Centre
- University of British Columbia: University Archives, Sound and Moving Image Database
- University of Manitoba, Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Université d'Ottawa, le Centre de Recherche en Civilisation Canadienne-FranÁaise (CRCCF)
- University of Toronto Archives: Film and Video
- City of Vancouver Archives
- Yukon Archives
Europe
Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
- STATE FILM FUND OF AZERBAIJAN / AZERBAYCAN DÖVLET FILM FONDU (Baku)
Austria
- sixpackfilm database (Vienna) (for filmvideo.at)
- Filmarchiv Austria (Vienna)
- International Atomic Energy Agency Video Catalogue (Vienna)
- Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum (Vienna)
Belarus
- Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings
- Museum of Belarussian Cinema History
Belgium
- Cinematheque de la Federation Wallonie
- Cinémathèque Royale
- European Commission Audiovisual Library
- Hoogstraeten Historische Site and Filmarchief
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Canary Islands
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
- Finnish Film Foundation
- Ministry of Education and Culture: Audiovisual Culture in Finland
- National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI)
- Radio and Television Archive, National Library of Finland
France
- Archives du Film du Centre National de la Cinématographie (Bois d'Arcy)
- Bibliotheque Nacionale de France - Audiovisual
- Centre Georges Pompidou
- Centre National de la cinématographie
- Cinémathèque Afrique
- Cinémathèque de Bretagne
- Cinémathèque de Grenoble
- La Cinémathèque de Nice
- Cinémathèque de Toulouse
- La Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l'Ain
- La Cinémathèque Française
- Cinémathèque Gaumont
- CINEMATHEQUE REGIONALE DE BOURGOGNE JEAN DOUCHET
- Cimematheque Universitaire
- Fondation Jerome Seydoux-Pathe
- Forum des Images
- Iconotheque De L'Institut National De Sport
- Institut Jean Vigo
- Institut Lumiere
- Institut National de l'audiovisuel
- Médiathèque de la Défense
- Musee Albert Kahn
- Pathe Archives
- UNESCO Audiovisual Archives
Georgia
Germany
- The Association of European Cinémathèques (ACE)
- Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv
- DEFA Stiftung (DEFA Foundation)
- Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF)
- Deutsches Filmmuseum
- Deutsches Kinemathek--Museum für Film und Fernsehen
- Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
- Filmmuseum München / Stadtmuseum
- Das Filmmuseum Potsdam
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung (Murnau-Foundation)
- Fritz Bauer Institut
- German Newsreel Archive
- Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München
- Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
- Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
- Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- Competence Centre for Non-Textual Materials (KNM), German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
Greece
- Greek Film Archive Foundation (English version)
- Hellenic National Audiovisual Archive
- Thessaloniki Cine Museum
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
- Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico
- Archivio Nazionale Cinematographico Della Resistenza
- Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
- La Biennale di Venezia: Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee
- Cinecittà Luce
- Cineteca del Comune di Bologna
- Cineteca del Friuli
- CSC-Cineteca Nazionale
- Cineteca Sarda
- Fondazione Cineteca Italiana
- Fondazione Federico Fellini
- Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Netherlands
- Brabants Film Archief and Dept of Photos and Films, Universiteit van Tilburg(Tilburg University)
- European Foundation Joris Ivens
- Europeana provides access to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout European cultural and scientific institutions.
- EYE Film Institute Netherlands
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
Norway
- Nordic Anthropological Film Association Archive
- Norwegian Film Institute
- National Library of Norway, Sound and Image Archive
Poland
- National Digital Archives (NDA)(English language)
- Documentary and Feature Film Studio
- Filmoteca Narodowa
Portugal
Romania
Russia
- Abamedia Film Archive
- Gosfilmofond
- Net-Film
- Russian Archives Online
- Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
- Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe
- Euskadiko Filmetegia/Filmoteca Vasca
- Filmoteca de Andalucia
- Filmoteca de Catalunya
- Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana
- Filmoteca Espanola
- Institut Valencia de Cinematografia
- Museu del Cinema, Girona
Sweden
- The Ingmar Bergman Foundation
- Svenska Filminstitutet
- Swedish Media Database (SMDB) is a search service for the audiovisual collections at the National Library of Sweden
Switzerland
- Archives de la Ville de Lausanne
- Cinémathèque Suisse
- Kinematek Bern Lichtspiel
- Swiss Museum of Transport
Turkey
United Kingdom
- ARKive
- Creative Learning in the Digital Age: Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
- Automotive Film Archive
- Barnardo's Photographic and Film Archive
- Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
- British Film Institute
- British Universities Newsreel Database
- East Anglian FilmArchive
- Film Archives Online (MIDAS project: Moving Image Database for Access and Re-use of European Film Collections)
- Films from the Home front, WWII film collections from seven regional screen archives and collections in the UK.
- Fleet Air Arm Archive
- Halas & Batchelor Collection, British Film Institute
- ITN Source
- Imperial War Museum Film Collection
- Kent Museum of the Moving Image
- Lincolnshire Film Archive
- London's Screen Archive
- London Transport Museum: Film and Video Collection
- Media Archive for Central England
- Moving History: Guide to UK Film and Television Archives in the Public Sector
- National Archive of the United Kingdom
- National Co-operative Film Archive
- National Film and Television Archive
- National Maritime Museum Film Archive
- National Media Museum
- National Museum of Wales: Film Archive
- National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
- North East Film Archive
- North-West Film Archive
- Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive
- Scottish Screen Archive
- South East Film and Video Archive
- South West Film and Television Archive
- Staffordshire Film Archive, Staffordshire University.
- UK Film Archive Forum
- Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
- Video Active
- Wellcome Film, digital moving images on healthcare and medicine.
- Wessex Film and Sound Archive
- Wimbledon Archive
- Yorkshire Film Archive
- Amnesty International Video Film Archive
Vatican City
Yugoslavia
Latin America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Mexico
- Agrasanchez Film Archives
- Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica
- Cineteca Nacional
- Cineteca Nuevo Leom - Centro De Las Artes I Consejo Para La Cultura Y Las Artes
- Filmoteca de la Unam
- Fundacion Carmen Toscano
- Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia
Nicaragua
Peru
- Biblioteca Nacional de Peru: Archivo Peruano de Imagen y Sonido
- Filmoteca de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP)
Uruguay
- Archivo del Servicio de Medios Audiovisuales de la Facultad de Arquitectura
- Archivo Nacional de la Imagen--Sodre
- Cinemateca Uruguaya
Venezuela
United States
Alabama
- Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery)
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham)
- University of Alabama, Center for Public Television and Radio (Tuscaloosa)
- University of Alabama, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library (Tuscaloosa)
Alaska
- Alaska Center for Documentary Film, Alaska Digital Archives, & Alaska Film Archives, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks (Fairbanks)
- Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (Anchorage)
- Alaska Native Knowledge Network (Fairbanks)
- KYUK-TV (Bethel)
- Pratt Museum (Homer)
Arizona
- Arizona Historical Foundation (Tempe)
- Arizona Historical Society (Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, & Flagstaff)
- Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (Phoenix)
- Arizona State Museum (Tucson)
- Arizona State University Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (Tempe)
- Heard Museum (Phoenix)
- Pima Air and Space Museum (Tucson)
- University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography (Tucson)
Arkansas
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library (Little Rock)
California
- Academic Film Archive of North America (San Francisco & St. Louis)
- Academy Film Archive
- American Indian Film Institute
- ASIFA: Hollywood Animation Archive (Burbank)
- Archive of American Television (Los Angeles)
- Blackchair Digital External (San Francisco)
- California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Library (Valencia)
- California Department of Water Resources (Sacramento)
- California Digital Library: Online Archive of California
- California Light and Sound,historical moving images and audio from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.
- California Pacific Medical Center, Health Sciences Library: Special Collections (San Francisco)
- California State Archives (Sacramento)
- California State Railroad Museum Library (Sacramento)
- California State University, Northridge, Library Special Collections, Urban Archives Center (Northridge)
- Caltech Institute Archives (Pasadena)
- Center for Home Movies (Los Angeles)
- Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles)
- Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles)
- Computer Museum History Center (Mountain View)
- Deep Focus: A Directory to Moving Image Resources (Hollywood)
- DefenseImagery.mil (Riverside)
- Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
- GLBT Historical Society of Northern California (San Francisco)
- Harappa Film Archive (San Francisco)
- History San Jose (San Jose)
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University: Library and Archives & Firing Line Television Collection (Stanford)
- Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (San Francisco)
- Internet Moving Images Archive (San Francisco)
- Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles)
- Japanese American History Archives (San Francisco)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Beacon Library and Archives (Pasadena)
- Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Audiovisual Collection (Los Angeles)
- Mills College, Olin Library: Special Collections and Archives (Oakland)
- NASA Dryden Flight Research Center: Photo, Movies and Graphics Collections (Edwards)
- Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum External(Fremont)
- Richard M. Nixon Library Audiovisual Materials (Yorba Linda)
- Richard Nixon Library: Archives (Yorba Linda)
- Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)
- Paley Center for Media (New York City, NY & Los Angeles)
- Paso Robles Pioneer Museum (Paso Robles)
- Oakland Public Library: African American Museum (Oakland)
- Pomona College: Pacific Basin Institute Archive (Claremont)
- Prelinger Archives (San Francisco)
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Simi Valley)
- Will Rogers Institute (Toluca Lake)
- Center for Sacramento History: Moving Images Collection External (Sacramento)
- San Diego Aerospace Museum: Film Archive (San Diego)
- San Diego Historical Society (San Diego)
- San Francisco Bay Area Television Archives (San Francisco)
- San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Museum Library (San Francisco)
- San Francisco Media Archive/Oddball Films External (San Francisco)
- San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design (San Francisco)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Moving Images
- Sherman Library and Gardens (Corona Del Mar)
- Southern California Library (Los Angeles)
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (Los Angeles)
- Stanford University Libraries: Media Collections, Monterey Jazz Festival Collection and Stanford University Libraries: Special Collections(Palo Alto)
- Tobacco Control Archives, University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
- UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles)
- UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (Los Angeles)
- USC Moving Image Archive and USC Cinemamatic Arts Library (Los Angeles)
- University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Special Collections (Berkeley)
- University of California, Berkeley, Media Resource Center (Berkeley)
- University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley)
- University of California, Davis Library Special Collections (Davis)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, Factual Film Library (San Diego & La Jolla)
- USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)
- Visual Communications (Los Angeles)
- Wende Museum (Culver City)
- Western Railway Museum (Suisun City)
- William S. Hart Ranch and Museum (Newhall)
Colorado
- Aspen (CO) Historical Society: Archives, Collection and Research (Aspen)
- Bessemer Historical Society: Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives (Pueblo)
- Colorado Historical Society (Denver)
- Naropa University Library: Special Collections (Boulder)
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Norlin Library: Archives (Boulder)
- World Figure Skating Museum (Colorado Springs)
Connecticut
- Albers Foundation Archives (Bethany)
- American Magic-Lantern Theater (East Haddam)
- Bridgeport Public Library: Historical Collections (Bridgeport)
- Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford)
- Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme)
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale Univ.) (New Haven)
- Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic)
- Wesleyan University Cinema Archives (Middletown)
- Wesleyan University Library: World Music Archives (Middletown)
- Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (New Haven)
- Yale University Film Study Center (New Haven)
Delaware
- Delaware Public Archives (Dover)
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington)
- University of Delaware Libraries (Newark)
District of Columbia
- AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
- American University Libraries: University Archives
- Annenberg Media Learner.org
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Gallaudet University: Film/Video Collection (click on Graphics/Photo)
- Fed Flix: Digitized Films from the National Technical Information Service
- Georgetown University, Special Collections
- Hirshhorn Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution
- Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- National Air and Space Museum Film Archive, Smithsonian Institution
- National Archives and Records Administration: Motion Picture Films and Sound and Video Recordings
- National Anthropological Archives/Human Studies Film Archive
- National Geographic Archives
- National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of American History Collections, Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of Health and Medicine: Otis Historical Archives
- National Press Club Archives
- Newseum
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Collection
- Tudor Place
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Florida
- Florida Moving Image Archive (Miami)
- Florida State Archives: Film and Video Collection (Tallahassee)
- Historical Society of Palm Beach County: Archives (Palm Springs)
- International Game Fish Association: E.K. Harry Library of Fishes (Dania Beach)
- International Swimming Hall of Fame: Henning Library (Ft. Lauderdale)
- University of Florida, University Archives, Moving Image Archives and News and Public Affairs Videotape Collection (Gainesville)
- University of Miami, Richter Library, Archives and Special Collections (Miami)
- USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)
Georgia
- Atlanta History Center (Atlanta)
- CNN ImageSource (Atlanta)
- Emory University Libraries (Atlanta)
- Georgia State Archives (Morrow)
- The King Center (Atlanta)
- Jimmy Carter Presidential Library External (Atlanta)
- University of Georgia Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection (Athens)
- University of Georgia Libraries: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies (Athens)
- Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation: Library and Archive (Warm Springs)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Augusta)
Hawaii
- Bishop Museum Archives (Honolulu)
- Honolulu Academy of Arts (Honolulu)
- ‘Ulu‘ulu Moving Image Archive at the University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu (Honolulu)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa Library (Honolulu)
Idaho
- Boise State University, Albertson Library Special Collections including the Idaho Film Collection (Boise)
- Idaho State Historical Society Libraries and Archives (Boise)
- University of Idaho, International Jazz Collections (Moscow)
- University of Idaho, Library: Special Collections (Moscow)
Illinois
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum: Audiovisual Collection (Springfield)
- Barrington (IL) Historical Society (Barrington)
- Billy Graham Center Archives (Wheaton)
- Center for Black Music Research (Chicago)
- Chicago Film Archives (Chicago)
- Chicago History Museum External (Chicago)
- Chicago Province Archives: Society of the Divine Word (Techny)
- Clio Awards Archives (New York City & Chicago)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Elk Grove Village)
- Field Museum (Chicago)
- Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
- The History Makers (Chicago)
- Illinois State Historical Society (Springfield)
- Kartemquin Films (Chicago)
- Marion E. Wade Center Archives, Wheaton College (Wheaton)
- Media Burn Independent Video Archive (Chicago)
- Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago)
- Northern Illinois University, Regional History Center (DeKalb)
- Southern Illinois University: Morris Library, Special Collections (Carbondale)
- South Side Home Movie Project (Chicago)
- University of Chicago, Special Collections, University Archives & Chicago Jazz Archives (Chicago)
- University of Illinois Archives (Urbana-Champaign)
- Video Data Bank (Chicago)
Indiana
- Black Film Center/Archive Home Page (Indiana University) (Bloomington)
- College Football Hall of Fame: Archive (South Bend)
- Depauw University Archives and Indiana United Methodism Special Collections of DePauw University (Greencastle)
- Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (Bloomington)
- Honeywell Foundation (Wabash)
- Indiana Historical Society: Visual Collections (Indianapolis)
- Indiana University Libraries Film Archive (Bloomington)
- Indiana University: Kinsey Institute Film and Video (Bloomington)
- Indiana University: Archives of Traditional Music (Bloomington)
- Studebaker National Museum (South Bend)
Iowa
- Coe College Archives (Cedar Rapids)
- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
- Iowa State University Library, Special Collections (Ames)
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum (West Branch)
- State Historical Society of Iowa: Audio-Visual Collections (Des Moines & Iowa City)
- University of Iowa Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives (Iowa City)
Kansas
- Bethel College: Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (Abilene)
- Kansas State Historical Society: Audio-Visual Collection (Topeka)
- Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum: Stott Explorers Library & Henshall Archives (Chanute)
- Robert J. Dole Archive & Special Collection, University of Kansas (Lawrence)
- University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library, University Archives (Lawrence)
Kentucky
- Appalshop Archive (Whitesburg)
- Eastern Kentucky University: Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
- Kentucky Educational TV: Public Affairs Video Archive (Lexington)
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain)
- University of Kentucky Audio-Visual Archives (Lexington)
- University of Louisville: University Archives and Records Center (Louisville)
Louisiana
- Backstreet Cultural Museum (New Orleans)
- The Historic New Orleans Collection: Williams Research Center (New Orleans)
- Louisiana State Archives: Multimedia Archives (Baton Rouge)
- Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans)
- Louisiana State University Libraries: Special Collections (Baton Rouge)
- New Orleans Public Library: Louisiana Division (New Orleans)
- Tulane University Libraries, Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections (New Orleans)
Maine
- Bates College: Edmund S. Muskie Archives (Lewiston)
- Maine Historical Society (Portland)
- Margaret Chase Smith Library (Skowhegan)
- Northeast Historic Film (Bucksport)
- University of Maine, Fogler Library, Special Collections (Orono)
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center (Brunswick)
- Wendell Gilley Museum (Southwest Harbor)
Maryland
- American Film Institute (Los Angeles & Silver Spring)
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (St. Michaels)
- Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution) (Suitland)
- Johns Hopkins University: Peabody Institute (Baltimore)
- Johns Hopkins University: University Archives (Baltimore)
- Johns Hopkins University: Medical Archives (Baltimore)
- Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore)
- George Meany Center for Labor Studies: Memorial Archives (Silver Spring)
- Maryland Moving Image Archive (MarMIA)
- National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division Collections (Bethesda)
- National Public Broadcasting Archives (College Park)
- University of Baltimore Library Special Collections (Baltimore)
- University of Maryland, Library of American Broadcasting & University Archives, and Other Media Collections (College Park)
- Seventh-day Adventist Church Archives (Silver Spring)
Massachusetts
- Boston TV News Digital Library
- Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department:Moving Image Collections (Waltham)
- DEFA Film Library (East German Cinema), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst)
- Documentary Educational Resources (Watertown)
- Framingham State College Library: Archives and Special Collections (Framingham)
- Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University Weissman Preservation Center, and Harvard University Library: University Archives (Cambridge)
- Massachusetts Archives (Boston)
- MIT Museum: Science and Technology (Cambridge)
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Hickox Library (Springfield)
- John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (Boston)
- National Center for Jewish Film (Waltham)
- Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge)
- University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library: Archives and Special Collections (Boston)
- University of Massachusetts, Lowell: Home Movie Archives (Lowell)
- Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study(Cambridge)
- Simmons College Library: College Archives (Boston)
- Smith College Libraries: College Archives (Northampton)
- USS Constition Museum (Boston)
- WGBH Television Archives & Media Library (Boston)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory, MBLWHOI Library (Woods Hole)
- Long Bow China Archive (Brookline)
Michigan
- Alden B. Dow Archives (Midland)
- Archives of Michigan (Lansing)
- Henry Ford Museum: Library and Archives Collections (Dearborn)
- Michigan State University, University Archives and Historical Collections (East Lansing)
- Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum (Grand Rapids)
- University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Michigan Historical Collections (Ann Arbor)
- Perry Archives at the Sloan Museum (Flint)
- Wayne State University, Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Audiovisual collections (Detroit)
Minnesota
- Bell Museum of Natural History Film Collection (Minneapolis)
- Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
- Minnesota Historical Society: Moving Images Collection (St. Paul)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Manuscripts Division and Archives & Performing Arts Archive (Minneapolis)
- Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul)
- Walker Art Center: Film and Video (Minneapolis)
Mississippi
- Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Jackson)
- University of Mississippi Libraries: Dept. of Archives and Special Collections, Visual Collections and the Southern Media Archive (University)
Missouri
- Academic Film Archive of North America (San Francisco & St. Louis)
- American Jazz Museum (Kansas City)
- Missouri Historical Society: Archives and Photographs (St. Louis)
- Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Independence)
- University of Missouri, Columbia Libraries: University Archives (Columbia)
- University of Missouri Science and Technology (Rolla)
- Washington University: Film and Media Archive (St. Louis)
- Washington University Library: University Archives (St. Louis)
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection External (Multiple locations)
Montana
- Museum of the Rockies (Bozeman)
- University of Montana, Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives (including KRTV Collection (Missoula)
Nebraska
- American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Lincoln)
- Nebraska State Historical Society: Audiovisual Archives (Lincoln)
- University of Nebraska Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (Lincoln)
Nevada
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Short Film Archive (Las Vegas)
- Nevada Historical Society (Reno)
- Nevada State Museum (Carson City)
- University of Nevada, Reno: Basque Film Archive (Reno)
New Hampshire
- New England Ski Museum (Franconia)
- New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music and Dance, University of New Hampshire (Durham)
- University of New Hampshire, University Archives (Durham)
New Jersey
- Dover Free Public Library (Dover)
- Edison National Historical Site: Collections (West Orange)
- General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church (Madison)
- New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (New Brunswick)
- Pinelands Cultural and Historical Preservation Society (Waretown)
- Rutgers University Libraries: Institute of Jazz Studies (Newark)
- Rutgers University Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives (New Brunswick)
New Mexico
- Los Alamos County Historical Society (Los Alamos)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory: Audio-Visual Collections (Los Alamos)
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives: Archives and Historical Services Division (Santa Fe)
- University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (Albuquerque)
- Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe)
New York
- American Dance Festival (Durham, North Carolina & New York City)
- American Jewish Historical Society (New York City)
- American Museum of Natural History: Moving Image Collection (New York City)
- Anthology Film Archives (New York City)
- Barnard College Archives (New York City)
- National Baseball Hall of Fame Library (Cooperstown)
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- City College of New York Libraries (New York City)
- Clio Awards Archives (New York City & Chicago)
- Columbia University: Harriman Institute (New York City)
- Columbia University Teachers College: Special Collections (New York City)
- Corning Museum of Glass: Rakow Library (Corning)
- Democracy Now (New York City)
- Electronic Arts Intermix (New York City)
- Estate Project for Artists with AIDS: Film Preservation Program (New York City)
- Explorers Club (New York City)
- Film-makers Cooperative (New York City)
- Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn)
- Buckminster Fuller Institute (Brooklyn)
- Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
- Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Museum (New York City)
- Guggenheim Museum Archives (New York City)
- HBO Sports Archives (New York City)
- Hadassah Archives (New York City)
- Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame: Historic Collections and Library Research Services (Goshen)
- Harry Smith Archives (New York City)
- House Foundation for the Arts (New York City)
- Hunter College, City University of New Tork: Center for Puerto Rican Studies (New York City)
- International Film Foundation (New York City)
- International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman Museum External (Rochester)
- Ithaca College Archives: Rod Serling Collection (Ithaca)
- Jewish Educational Media and The Living Archive (Brooklyn)
- Jewish Museum New York (New York City)
- The Juilliard School, Wallace Library (New York City)
- The Kitchen (New York City)
- LaGuardia and Wagner Archives/City University of New York (Long Island City)
- Lower East Side Tenament Museum (New York City)
- Marist College: Archives and Special Collections (Poughkeepsie)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: Libraries and Study Centers (New York City)
- Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York City)
- Museum of Modern Art Dept. of Film and Video (New York City)
- Museum of the Moving Image and Living Room Candidate(Astoria)
- Paley Center for Media (New York City & Los Angeles)
- National Baseball Hall of Fame: Media Department (Cooperstown)
- National Museum of the American Indian: Film and Video Center (New York City)
- NBC News Archives (New York City)
- New York City Municipal Archives (New York City)
- New York Foundation for the Arts(Brooklyn)
- New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: Medical Archives (New York City)
- New York Public Library, Dance Collection (New York City)
- New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Section (New York City)
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (New York City) Reserve Film and Video Collection
- New York State Archives and Motion Picture Script Collection(Albany)
- New York State Historical Society: Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown)
- New York University, Fales Library, Special Collections (New York City)
- Larry Rivers Foundation (Bridgehampton)
- University of Rochester Library: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Rochester)
- Robert Wagner Labor Archives, NYU Tamiment Library, Nonprint Dept. (New York City)
- Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (Hyde Park)
- Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (Jamestown)
- Schenectady Museum presents a selection of rare films from its General Electric film collection, including more than 1,500 advertising, training, and educational films from 1915 through 1983. (Schenectady)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (NYC)
- Syracuse University, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture (Syracuse)
- Temenos (New York City)
- Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. (New Rochelle)
- Third World Newsreel (New York
- Tibet Film Archive(New York)
- USA TV Ads (New York City, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
- WITNESS Media Archive (Brooklyn)
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research: Film Collection (New York City)
North Carolina
- Appalachian State University: W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection (Boone)
- Duke University: Special Collections & John Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History (Durham)
- East Carolina University Archives (Greenville)
- North Carolina School of the Arts: Archive External (Winston-Salem)
- North Carolina State University: Special Collections (Raleigh)
- Schiele Museum of Natural History (Gastonia)
- Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville)
- State Archives of North Carolina (Raleigh)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Folklife Collection, Southern Historical Collection, and North Carolina Collection (Chapel Hill)
North Dakota
Ohio
- Archives of the History of American Psychology, University of Akron (Akron)
- Cincinnati Museum Center (Cincinnati)
- Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland)
- Historical Construction Equipment Association (Bowling Green)
- John Carroll University: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives (University Heights)
- Mahoning Valley Historical Society: Business and Media Archives (Youngstown)
- Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum (Pickerington)
- Ohio Historical Society: Audiovisual Collections (Columbus)
- Ohio State University Byrd Polar Archives, John Glenn Archives
- University of Akron, Archival Services (Akron)
- University of Toledo, Ward Canady Center, University Archives (Toledo)
- Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland)
Oklahoma
- Cherokee Heritage Center and National Historical Society(Tahlequah)
- Oklahoma Historical Society: Motion Picture and Broadcasting Collections (Oklahoma City)
- Political Commercial Archive (University of Oklahoma) (Norman)
- University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections (Norman)
- Will Rogers Memorial (Claremore)
Oregon
- Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Library Film Collection (Portland)
- Oregon Electric Railway, Historical Society (Brooks)
- Oregon Health and Science University Library (Portland)
- Oregon Historical Society, Moving Images (Portland)
- Oregon State University Archives: Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (Corvallis)
- Southern Oregon Historical Society (KMED Collection) (Jacksonville)
- Wallowa County (OR) Historical Society (Joseph)
Pennsylvania
- Betzwood Film Archive (Blue Bell)
- Carnegie Museum of Art: Film and Video (Pittsburgh)
- Heinz History Center: Library and Archives (Pittsburgh)
- National Canal Museum: Archives/Library (Easton)
- National Railway Historical Society Heritage Film Collection (Philadelphia)
- Penn State University Library, Special Collections: Historical Collections and Labor Archives, University Archives & Fred Waring's America Collection (University Park)
- Pennsylvania State Archives (Harrisburg)
- University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Anthropology and Archeology (Philadelphia)
- University of Pennsylvania, University Archives (Philadelphia)
- University of Pittsburgh, Archives Service Center (Pittsburgh)
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Strasburg)
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Swarthmore)
- Temple University, Urban Archives, Television Audiovisual Collections (Philadelphia)
- Andy Warhol Museum: Film and Video Collection (Pittsburgh)
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: Museum (Newport)
- Rhode Island Historical Society: Research Library Film Collections (Providence)
- University of Rhode Island Libraries: Special Collections (Kingston)
South Carolina
- Clemson University Libraries, Special Collections: University Archives and Manuscripts (Clemson)
- University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections (Columbia)
- Sheriar Foundation (North Myrtle Beach)
- Winthrop University, Dacus Library: University Archives (Rock Hill)
South Dakota
- South Dakota Art Museum (Brookings)
- South Dakota State Agricultural History Museum (Brookings)
- South Dakota State Historical Society (Pierre)
Tennessee
- Center for Southern Folklore (Memphis)
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Moving Image Collection (Nashville)
- East Tennessee State University: Archives of Appalachia (Johnson City)
- Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound (Knoxville)
- Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville)
- University of Memphis, Special Collections, Mississippi Valley Collection (Memphis)
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive (Nashville)
Texas
- Abilene Christian University: Brown Library (Herald of Truth Archives) (Abilene)
- Austin History Center (Austin)
- Dallas (Texas) Municipal Archives (Dallas)
- Douglas Fairbanks Museum (Austin)
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Collection, UT Austin: Film Collection (Austin)
- Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center Library: John P. McGovern Historical Collections & Research Center (Houston)
- Menil Collection (Houston)
- Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Frank Collection (Houston)
- NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston)
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum (Austin)
- George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (College Station)
- Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century (Austin)
- National Scouting Museum (Irving)
- Southern Methodist University: G. William Jones Film Collection (Dallas), includes Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films
- Texas A&M University, Cushing Memorial Library, University Archives (College Station)
- Texas Archive of the Moving Image (Austin)
- Texas State Library and Archives Division (Austin)
- Texas State University Library: Special Collections (San Marcos)
- Texas Tech University Library, Southwest Collection: Audio-Visual & Vietnam Archive (Lubbock)
- University of Texas at Austin: Center for American History, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, & Petroleum Extension Service (Austin)
- University of Texas at San Antonio Archives (San Antonio)
- University of Texas Brownsville Special Collections and Archives (Brownsville)
- Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (Canyon)
- Le Tourneau University, R.G. LeTourneau Memorial Museum and Archives (Longview)
Utah
- Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library: L. Tom Perry Special Collections (Provo)
- Topaz Internment Camp Museum (Delta)
- University of Utah, Marriott Library, Audio-Visual Department (Salt Lake City)
- Utah State Archives (Salt Lake City)
- Utah State Historical Society (Salt Lake City)
Vermont
- University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections (Burlington)
- Vermont Folklife Center Archive (Middlebury)
- Vermont Historical Society (Barre)
- Vermont State Archives (Montpelier)
- Roz Payne Archives: Newsreel Films (Richmond)
Virginia
- Bridgewater College Library Special Collections: XPO 2000 films (Bridgewater)
- Folkstreams
- General Douglas MacArthur Memorial Library and Archives (Norfolk)
- George C. Marshall Research Library (Lexington)
- George Mason University: Special Collections and Archives (Fairfax)
- Hollins University Library Special Collections (Roanoke)
- Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (Washington, DC & Culpeper)
- Lynchburg College Library: College Archives (Lynchburg)
- MacNeil/Lehrer Archives (Arlington)
- Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections (Quantico)
- The Mariners' Museum (Newport News)
- National Technical Information Service/National Audiovisual Center (Springfield)
- Regent University Library Special Collections (Virginia Beach)
- Roanoke College Library: College Archives (Salem)
- United Daughters of the Confederacy (Richmond)
- University of Virginia Health System Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections and Services (Charlottesville)
- University of Virginia Library: Special Collections (Charlottesville)
- University of Virginia, Television News of the Civil Rights Era (Charlottesville)
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
- Virginia Union University: Special Collections and Archives (Richmond)
- Washington and Lee University: Lewis Powell Archives (Lexington)
Washington
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, including Guide to the KVOS Channel 12 Film Records, 1961-1967 (Bellingham)
- Eastern Washington State University Museum of Art and Culture (Spokane)
- Everett (WA) Public Library: Northwest History Collection (Everett)
- Getty Images (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, & Seattle)
- Historical Society of Seattle and King County/Museum of History and Industry (Seattle)
- Museum of Flight (Seattle)
- Nordic Heritage Museum (Seattle)
- University of Washington, Ethnomusicology Archive (Seattle)
- University of Washington, University Libraries: Manuscripts/Special Collections/University Archives (Seattle)
- University of Washington Libraries Media Center (Seattle)
- Washington State Archives (Olympia)
- Washington State Historical Society: Special Collections (Tacoma)
West Virginia
- Marshall University James Morrow Library, Special Collections, Manuscripts (WSAZ-TV newsfilm collection) (Huntington)
- Mine Safety and Health Administration Library, Department of Labor (Beaver)
- West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Archives Section (Charleston)
- West Virginia State Archives (Charleston)
- West Virginia University: American Religious Experience Film Archive (Morgantown)
- West Virginia University Libraries: West Virginia and Regional History Collection (Morgantown)
Wisconsin
- Circus World Museum: Parkinson Library and Research Center (Baraboo)
- Marquette University Library: Special Collections (Milwaukee)
- Neville Public Museum: Moving Image Collection (Green Bay)
- Wisconsin Historical Society, Visual Materials (Madison)
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Golda Meir, Library, Archives (Milwaukee)
- Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Madison)
- Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc)
Wyoming
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