Research

Categories in Forms

  • NBC News Archives   Paid Subscription Required
    View thousands of video clips from NBC's archives. Registration is necessary.
  • New Media Encyclopedia  
    A large database of new-media art and videotaped performance art, taken from the collections of various European institutions. In English, French, and German.
  • Newsfilm Library (University of South Carolina)  
    A complete, searchable index of everything in the Fox Movietone News and Local Television News collections, as well as selected film clips (Quicktime format) available online.
  • Origins of American Animation (Library of Congress)  
    This website, maintained by the Library of Congress, offers 21 animated films and two fragments from the early days of American animation. Included are examples of clay, puppet, and cutout animation, as well as pen drawings, in a variety of formats for both streaming and download.
  • Paik Studios   Paid Subscription Required
    The official site of the late artist. Features articles and images.
  • PBS 30-Second Candidate  
    An interactive online exhibit about the history and production of presidential campaign commercials, featuring a historical timeline and clips of interviews with campaign-ad experts. The site also is host to a short video emphasizing the craft of creating commercials (and its similarity to the craft of cinema) and a dissection of how the famous "Eisenhower Answers America" ads were created.
  • Political Advertising Resource Center  
    PARC's website compiles campaign advertising from recent elections and analyzes voter reactions to the ads. Also, their "Campaign 2008" section includes a running archive of ads, including transcripts.
  • Political Spot Advertising Bibliography  
    A bibliography of print resources about political advertisements.
  • Prelinger Library   Peer Reviewed
    The official website for the physical collection of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco. The library contains "40,000 books, periodicals, printed ephemera and government documents," many of which pertain to television and media, and to industrial/educational film production.
  • Rhizome   Paid Subscription Required
    Hosted by the New Museum, Rhizome is an online community devoted to digital media and Internet art, with a frequently updated blog, online discussion boards, and extensive archives and galleries. The ArtBase subsection is available to members through a $5/year subscription.
  • Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art  
    The Roland Collection consists of 640 films and videos on art, made by 230 filmmakers from 25 different countries.
  • Selectparks  
    A regularly updated compendium on the intersection of art and gaming, with an extensive bibliography and links section, archives, and downloads.
  • Sloan Science and Film  
    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Film website hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image "supports the creation of realistic and entertaining stories about science and technology, many of which challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers". The website features full-length digital films, dialogues between scholars and filmmakers, and a selection of articles written by film critics.
  • Soviet Estonia: Film Clips  
    Clips from the 1950s Soviet newsreel archive. The main website gives more information about Estonian film and information on their national archive.
  • tank.tv  
    Online gallery and archive showcases innovative work in video and film by artists worldwide. Founded by Tank magazine.
  • Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film  
    A site by the Library and Archives of Canada featuring Canadian Army newsreels and German newsreels from the period.
  • Vanderbilt TV News Archive  
    Vanderbilt has been collecting, cataloging, and writing abstracts for TV news broadcasts since 1968. Many can be viewed online.
  • Vasulka Archive of the Daniel Langlois Foundation  
    Articles, essays, interviews, reviews, schematics, diagrams, illustrations, posters, concert programs, photographs, and correspondence related to the history of video and electronic art. Much of the material is on the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka.
  • Video Art in Canada  
    A directory of films and artists, with video clips.
  • Warcraft Movies  
    Archive of machinima films made with the video game Warcraft, available for streaming or download to paid subscribers. Users can also submit their own films to the archive.