General Film Publications & Guides

Offered below is an assortment of brochures, booklets, case studies, directories, guidelines, how-to manuals, journals, newsletters, white papers and much more devoted to film preservation issues, practices and projects.
For information specifically related to film preservation and restoration, go to Preservation and Restoration Resources and Projects. External
To suggest additional sites for inclusion, please email stgriffin@loc.gov.
- Activists' Guide to Archiving Video External by WITNESS
- Advanced Projection Manual External (FIAF)
- AFI Archive External
- Ain't-It-Cool-News.com External
- All-Movie Guide External
- American Cinematographer External
- American Rhetoric.com External Great site containing famous speeches in the movies and other settings
- Animated News External
- Animation Consultants International External
- Animation Magazine External
- Animation World Network External
- ArtsJournal External
- Association of Moving Image Archivists External Note: The following are all in pdf format
- AMIA 2015 Conference Presentations External
- Archival Education in Transition: Taking Stock. Presentation: Jeff Stoiber, L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation External
- Advocacy: Personal Advocacy – The Power of One. Presentation: Ray Edmondson, Archive Associates Pty Ltd External
- Competency-Based Frameworks for Moving Image Archiving Education. Presentation: Karen Gracy, Kent State University External
- Item vs. Collection Level Censuses in University Libraries. PowerPoint presentation: External
- The Environmental Impact of Digital Preservation. Presentation: Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock External
- The Academy Color Encoding System: A Standard for Long-term Archiving of Digital Motion Picture Materials. Presentation: Andy Maltz, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences External
- AMIA Compendium of Moving Image Cataloging Practice External [Introduction, Profiles of Participants, and Sample Guidelines] Available to order from the Society of American Archivists
- AMIA 2015 Conference Presentations External
- Audiovisual Citation Guidelines, External (PDF, 411KB) published by the British Universities Film & Video Council.
- Australian Network for Information on Cellulose Acetate External
- AV Preserve External (AudioVisual Preservation Solutions, Inc.)
- Avant-Garde Cinema
- BruceBaillie.net External
- JonasMekasFilms.com External
- Senses of Cinema External
- "Some Views from the Avant-Garde on DVD" by Daryl Chin External
- Big Cartoon Database External
- BigScreenbiz.com External
- The Bioscope: Reporting on the World of Early and Silent Cinema External
- Black Classic Movies.com External
- blackfilm.com External
- Blinkbox External
- David Bordwell External
- Box Office at Hollywood.com External
- Box Office Guru External
- Box Office magazine External
- Box Office Mojo External
- Box Office Prophets External
- Box Office statistics External
- Bright Lights Film Journal External
- Broadcasting and Cable External
- Brushwood Gulch Gazette - Home of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Laurel & Hardy Society External
- Louise Brooks Society External
- Buster Keaton.com External
- Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet External
- Canadian Journal of Film Studies External
- CanadianFilm.com External
- Cartoon Brew External
- Cartoon Research (Jerry Beck) External
- Cineaste External
- Cinefantastique External magazine
- CineFiles External(a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archives Library's collection)
- CineGraph External
- Cinemontage, Motion Picture Editor's Guild magazine External
- CineSavant External
- COLLATE: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material External
- Collections Care (Library of Congress)
- Connecting to Collections, External nationwide initiative sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
- CoOL (Conservation OnLine) External
- Copyright Society of USA Journal article, 1988 National Film Preservation Act (courtesy Eric Schwartz) (PDF, 2.59MB)
- Cost of Inaction Calculator, External a tool developed by AVPreserve to determine the cost of digitizing collections, and the cost of not digitizing collections.
- Council on Library and Information Resources External
- Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment External
- The Digital Film Restoration Process External
- The Digital Library: a Biography External
- The Evidence in Hand: the Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections External
- National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity External
- A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns External
- Critic Doctor External
- DGA News magazine External
- DVD Beaver External
- DVD Review External
- DVD Spin Doctor (Glenn Abel) External
- DVD Talk External
- The Damfinos: The International Buster Keaton Society External
- Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily External
- "The Digital Black Hole" External by Jonas Palm, Director, Head of Department of Preservation, Riksarkivet/National Archives, Stockholm, Sweden
- Digital Curation Bibliography: External Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement.
- Digital Moving Image Archives (DMIA) External, serves as a guide for independent filmmakers to provide basic information about preserving digital data.
- Digital Projection Guide External (FIAF)
- Digitally Obsessed External
- Digitization 101 Blog External
- Disaster Recovery Journal External
- Domitor External
- Done Deal External (Info on movie script deals, etc.)
- DriveinMovie.com External
- E! Entertainment News External
- Entertainment Weekly External
- European Film Gateway External
- William K. Everson Collection External
- Fashion in Film Festival External
- FedFlix External
- FilmCare.org External, a central resource for best practices in film preservation.
- Film-Philosophy External
- Film Comment External
- Film Collecting Film Center External
- Film Critics
- Melissa Anderson External
- Joe Baltake: The Passionate Moviegoer External
- Justin Chang External, Variety
- Chicago Reader External
- Roger Ebert External
- Molly Haskell External
- Dave Kehr External, blog posts 2008-2013
- Lisa Kennedy External
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy External
- Steven Rea External
- Carrie Rickey External
- Jonathan Rosenbaum External
- Andrew Sarris External
- David Sterritt External
- Ella Taylor External, NPR
- Anne Thompson External "Thompson on Hollywood," Indiewire
- Alison Willmore External, Buzzfeed
- Stephanie Zacharek External
- FilmForever: The Home Film Preservation GuideExternal
- Film Quarterly External
- FilmRatings.com External
- Film Reference Library External covers English-language Canadian film and film-related materials plus local, national and international film resources.
- Film Score Monthly External
- Films101: Sticking to the Best Movies External
- Film-Tech Forum Externalfor film handlers, along with cinema projection tips, equipment manual downloads, and projection picture warehouse.
- Filmsite (formerly Greatest Films) written and edited by Tim Dirks
- For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon External
- Freelance Video Collective External
- Golden Silents External
- Griffithiana database External, index to the now-defunct journal of silent cinema and classic animation.
- Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers, External published by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA).
- Hello, Harold Lloyd External
- Harold Lloyd official website External
- "History of Sub-35mm Film Formats and Cameras" External (essay by Jan-Eric Nystrom)
- Hollywood Online External
- The Hollywood Reporter External
- Hollywood Stock Exchange External: The Entertainment Stock Market Simulation
- Home and Amateur Film blog: Dwight Swanson External
- Home Theater Forum External
- Home Theater Review External
- IFC (Independent Film Channel) External
- Images, a Journal of Film and Popular Culture External
- The Independent External,formerly The Independent Film & Video Monthly.
- IndieWire External
- International Cinematographers Guild Magazine External
- Internet Movie Database (IMDb) External
- Journal of Cinema and Media Studies External
- Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF) External
- KFTV (formerly Kemps), External film and television production services website based in the UK.
- KINEMA External
- Kinoeye, Externalonline journal of European film (published between 2001 and 2004).
- Kodak: Motion Picture Resource Guides
- Lumiere: Database on admissions of films released in Europe External
- "Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling" External, by John Van Bogart, 1995, published by National Media Laboratory and the Commission on Preservation and Access
- Mandy.com External, comprehensive guide to independent film/tv production resources.
- Media History Digital Library External (online copies of Photoplay, Moving Picture World, etc.).
- "More Than 100 Years of Film Sizes" (Michael Rogge) External
- Moving Image Archive News External
- Movie Magazine International External
- MovieMaker magazine External
- Movie Poster Data Base External
- Movie Poster News Bulletin External
- Movieplayer.it, External online database of Italian and other international cinema and TV.
- Movieweb External
- The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) External
- Moving Image Source External, hosted by Museum of the Moving Image.
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a working group of ISO/IEC, created to develop standards for coded representation of digital audio and video and related data. External
- Music for Silent Films, 1894-1929: A Guide (PDF, 73.8MB) by Gillian B. Anderson, Library of Congress, 1988.
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress: Reports and Papers
- National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF)
- National Screen and Sound Archive: Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms External
- New Review of Film and Television Studies External
- Nitrate Film Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) photostream of nitrate film stills etc. External
- NitrateVille External
- Orphans Film symposium External
- "Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures," External published by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.
- Mary Pickford Foundation External
- POV External, PBS "documentaries with a point of view."
- "Post Focus: Paramount Restores The Godfather," American Cinematographer, May 2008 External
- Premiere External, French language version of film magazine no longer published in English.
- "Restoration Nation: Motion Picture Archives and American Film Preservation" External (PDF, 1.52MB) (dissertation by Caroline Frick).
- "Robert A. Harris: Tilting at Hollywood," External interview with the noted film restorationist by Stu Kobak.
- Rotten Tomatoes Film Reviews External
- "Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections" course bibliography External (PDF, 42KB), published by ICCROM, External the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.
- Schenectady Museum External 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.
- Screen, External international journal of academic film and television studies
- Screen Daily/Screen International External
- Screening the Past External, a peer-reviewed journal of screen history, theory & criticism.
- Screenwriting Central--Script Magazine External
- Second Run DVD External
- Senses of Cinema External
- Shooting Down Pictures External
- Sight and Sound External
- Silent Era External
- Silent Era Film Journals (archived by The Bioscope) External
- "Silent Film Resources on the Internet" (Glen Pringle) External
- Silent Film Stills Archive External
- Silent on Video External (courtesy Silents are Golden Web site)
- Silents are Golden External
- "So Many Films, But Only a Few Are Treasures; Library of Congress Separates Mere Movies From Landmarks," External by Randy Kennedy, New York Times, February 5, 2004.
- Society of American Archivists, Visual Materials Section External
- Society for Animation Studies External
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Journal (pre-1962) External (courtesy Internet Archive)
- Sound & Vision External magazine
- The Story of Movies External: The Film Foundation's middle school curriculum for the study and appreciation of cinema
- Streaming Media FAQ External
- Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections
- TV & Media Jobs and Opportunities External (primarily in the UK).
- TV Guide: Movie Reviews External
- Television Without Pity External
- Texas Commission on the Arts: Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide, 2004 External
- Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History External, an online resource by Q. David Bowers
- They Shoot Pictures, Don't They External
- This Film Is Dangerous External (FIAF), anthology of articles and presentations related to nitrate film.
- Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 1 External, New York Times, June 4, 2013.
- Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 2 External, New York Times, June 5, 2013.
- 30 Great Westerns External
- Toronto International Film Festival External
- Trailers from Hell External
- UNESCO Archives Portal External
- United States Copyright Office, Records Database External
- United States Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries for Motion Pictures
- Variety External home page
- Velvet Light Trap External
- Video Format Identification Guide External
- Washington State Film Preservation Manual External: Low-cost & No-cost Suggestions to Care for Your Film
- What a Character External
- Widescreen Review External
- Wilhelm Imaging Research External