SWC Library - Internet Resources

Internet Subject Guides

Film Resources

Site List

The following are subject-oriented Web sites. These sites are good starting points for exploring Film resources on the Internet.

At the Movies over 5,000 online movie reviews by motion picture critics.
Cinema: How are Hollywood Films Made an overview of the components of movie-making including screenwriting, directing, producing, acting, and editing.
Daily Script includes a collection of screenplays for a number of mainstream films, in alphabetical order.
Fine Cut Films instruction on writing, shooting and editing for film and television.
Hollywood Online provides motion picture news, trivia and interviews.
Internet Movie Database provides detailed information for movies (in theaters, on video or DVD, and forthcoming), as well as television movies and series. "
Internet Moving Image Archive provides access to historical film collections that exist in digital format. The films include mainly cold war, political campaigns, and health topics.
roger ebert.com is a database of more than 5,500 reviews that Ebert has written for the Chicago Sun-Times since he began as the paper’s movie critic in 1967.
Movie Times provides weekly motion picture box office information and the highest grossing movies of all time.

Career Information

- from the Occupational Outlook Handbook

Subject Directories

These Internet resource directories are useful for exploring a subject to find out what's available on the Internet. Be sure to carefully evaluate what you find.

Google Directory includes over forty web categories about motion pictures and film.
Yahoo provides motion picture information organized by subject.
Yahoo links to movie and film reviews.

Professional Associations

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