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Academic Resources
 Research Centres
Short Courses
Library Holdings
Research Centres
You may find these links useful if you are pursuing serious research in to cinema history; however the main benefit for this web site is that research programmes and teaching departments tend to publish articles, conference proceedings, study guides and reading lists - in other words they are themselves a useful doorway to the history we are seeking. This is not meant to be a comprehensive guide to Film Studies in Higher Education, but a selection of those web sites relating to Cinema History that provide useful and accessible resources for the Internet researcher.
The London Project: The birth of the film business in London
The first major research output of the London Project is its database of cinemas and film businesses in London, 1894-1914. This covers all of London of course, not just Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth, and has a near-definitive listing of venues, supply and production companies as well as many of the individuals responsible for developing the industry. As a starting point for further research it is fantastic.
Moving Image Research Registry
The BFI maintains a listing of current research projects so you may be able to identify individuals or departments undertaking relevant research to your own area of interest. They will be more interested if you have something to tell them of course - just writing to ask for everything they know may not be too successful, but if you can begin a dialogue, yo umay just get somewhere.
Research projects at the Centre for British Film and Television Studies which "aims to enhance and extend the recent growth in high level academic research on British Film and Television". Includes THE LONDON PROJECT: The Early Film Business in London, 1894-1914.
The British Cinema History Research Project
Within the department of Film & Television Studies at University of East Anglia. Other activities include a searchable online index for the trade journal "Kine Weekly" and a database of searchable transcriptions of the most significant interviews from the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) Oral History project (these last two require registration to get a username and password, so there may be specific conditions for access to be granted).
Film Consumption and the City: A Historical Case Study in the City of Nottingham.
Within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, this research project is looking at the cinema as a physical location of entertainment and something outside ordinary life.
Short Courses
If you want to develop your knowledge in a bit more depth, without undertaking postgraduate study, there are a number of short courses that are suitable for local history researchers, cinema history enthusiasts and general film buffs. Here are just a few - you may find others at your local college.
Morley College have several short courses of interest within their varied programme (Humanities section). Film Studies: Current Film & Theatre; Film History and Theory; French Cinema. Heritage: Charlie Chaplin Lived Here.
The City Lit has many courses relating to film, including: Key Films of the Twentieth Century; The Golden Age of British Cinema; Fifties Films: The Bad and the Beautiful; British Hitchcock - The Dark Side; and many more... (select 'courses', 'visual arts', then search for 'film').
BFI Education Course Search produces a listing of over 30 courses for cinema and film history - many more for wider searches on current film or film techniques for example. You can also browse by subject.
Library Holdings
A number of academic and research libraries provide summaries of their holdings in this subject. Access may be limited to their own students of course, but the references may be of use if you are planning a visit, searching a British Library database or requesting an inter-library loan.
Cinema History Sources: detailed records of these holdings from Warwick University Modern Records Centre
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