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Cinema History Links
WWWVLib Film History
Internet resources on the international History of Cinema from different approaches, as part of the WWW Virtual Library Project. Although many of the pages appear to have been upadated only up to 2001, there are a great range of categorised resources here, including links to early, silent, sound and postwar cinema; links to libraries, journals, mueums, institutes, archives and societies; geographical listings covering Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa. An excellent starting point for all historical cinema studies.
Cinema Treasures
Cinema Treasures is devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness, uniting movie theater owners and enthusiasts in a common cause—to save the last remaining movie palaces across the country. Despite its US focus, there is a lot of information on UK cinemas, and an actiive discussion forum with international reach.
The National Fairground Archive
The NFA has a unique collection of photographic, printed, manuscript and audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling showpeople, their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life; and the artefacts and machinery of fairgrounds - and the relevance here of course is the travelling bioscope shows, among the earliest public displays of projected film.
The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
An elegantly-designed site describing the history of moving pictures from hand shadows, through camera obscura and magic lantern slides to bioscopes and early cinema.
Early Cinema Gateway
Useful categorised directory of early cinema links: "A selection of websites on early cinema, broadly defined as the period of filmmaking to 1914, when Charles Urban's career was at its height. Also included are some general sites on pre-cinema, silent cinema, colour cinematography, and Urban-related themes such as phonographs" celebrating the career of Charles Urban.
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
Based at the University of Exeter, the Centre contains an enormous collection relating to the history of film and visual media. EVE (Everyone's Virtual Exhibition) is the digital exhibition space of the Bill Douglas Centre and includes a comprehensive catalogue of the collection, which is digitised and viewable online.
Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Theaters and Cinemas from DMOZ (Open Directory Project).
A good listing of cinema architecture web sites from around the world.
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