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Links to related websites

Film collections in the UK

British Film Institute (includes the very useful Film Links Gateway)

The Cinema Museum, London

Hove Museum and Art Gallery (includes dedicated film displays)

Kingston Museum (home to the Eadweard Muybridge collection)

National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television)

International film collections

American Film Institute, LA, California, USA

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria

Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

Cinémathèque Francaise / Musee du Cinema, Paris, France

Deustches Film museum, Frankfurt, Germany

Deutsche Kinematek, Berlin, Germany

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA

Filmmuseum Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy

Museu del Cinema, Girona, Spain

Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA

Smithsonian Institution: Film and Television Sites, Washington, USA

UCLA Film and Television Archive, LA, California, USA

For more information on registered film archives and film collections around the world, please visit the

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) website.

For information on regional film archives in the UK, please visit the Film Archives Forum website.

Major film studios

Disney Studios

Fox Studios

Universal Studios

Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Miramax Film Corporation

Paramount Pictures

Sony Pictures (Columbia/Tri Star)

United Artists

Warner Brothers Studios

Related collections in the UK

Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre

National Fairground Archive

Oxford Museum of the History of Science

Science Museum, London

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

V&A Theatre Collections

Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge

The Lindsay Anderson Archive - University of Stirling

Other sites of interest

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

American WideScreen Museum

British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society

British Library list of performing arts web sites

Cinema Theatre Association

The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography (includes detailed timeline charting the development of optical entertainments from the earliest times to 1900)

Early Popular Visual Culture

Film-Philosophy.com

Film Quarterly

Independent Film Channel

Internet Movie Database

Journal of Religion and Film

London Film School links page

The Magic Lantern Society, U.K. (provides useful links to other magic lantern sites)

New Review of Film and TV Studies

Poster Image Archive

Projected Picture Trust

Projection Box (site devoted to precinema and early cinema, with a very good, though unofficial, online version of the now-closed Museum of the Moving Image)

Spectrocom 'Global-Media-Links'

A Thrill in the Dark: Victorian Magic Lantern Shows

Visual Culture in Britain

Women's Film Resources

If you have any suggestions for new links, or if you have problems using one of these links, please contact the curator. Further resources may be found on the University's Special Collections museum links pages.

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