EARLY FILM
Silent London
Excellent resource on silent cinema and you can sign up to receive email alerts from the frequent blog.
Brent on Film
A forum for silent film enthusiasts and scholars, including a blog and a community events calendar.
Women and Silent British Cinema
A site dedicated to the work of women directors, writers, producers and others working in the early film industry.
The Women Film Pioneers Project
Columbia University-led site that offers information about women filmmakers in the silent era.
Colonial Film Project
Digitzed films shot across the British empire with accompanying articles and descriptions.
Picture Going
Described as 'eyewitness accounts of viewing pictures', the site collates reports about early experiences in cinemas.
National Fairground Archive
Documents, ephemera, images and films relating to fairgrounds and early travelling Bioscope shows.
BRITISH NATIONAL CINEMA
British Film Institute Filmography
A digital humanities project at the BFI that collates and visualises data about labour in the British film industries. Look up the statistics about women working behind the camera between the start of the records (1911) and now - it might shock you.
British Film Institute (database)
The database lets you search the BFI's extensive collection of films, criticism and archival materials including scripts, posters and production notes.
British Film Institute BFI Player
An online archive of historical and contemporary films, with collections including wartime cinema (e.g. 1914 on Film) and the 2015 Academy Award winners.
British Pathe
Online, digitized collection of British Pathe newsreels.
British Movietone News
Another great digitized collection of newsreels all available online.
British Universities Film and Video Council
Database that gives you access to thousands of moving image, sound and written resources.
Kine Weekly
The British trade journal is available digitized and word searchable from 1955-1971 through the University of East Anglia. For earlier editions you have to look at the print copy (available at the British Library and UEA).
BECTU History Project
An oral history collection that features interviews with filmmakers, cinema workers (including projectionists) and stars.
East Anglia Film Archive
An archive of locally produced and amateur films, with many digitized and available online.
Southeast Screen Archive
Database of archived films, including examples of early cinema by filmmakers such as Paul and Hepworth.
National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive
Online database of the archival footage shot in, or about, Scotland, with much of the collection digitised.
BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification offers information about film distributors and censorship guidelines. Useful resource if you have triggers and want to check content before class screenings, etc.
HOLLYWOOD
Lantern (digital archive)
Word searchable, online archive of trade and fan presses covering the histories of film, broadcasting and recorded sound.
Paramount Vault
YouTube channel where you can access feature films and clips from the Paramount Studio archive.
Cinemetrics
Editing database that uses specialist software to calculate the cutting rate and shot lengths in various films.
Kinomatics
Fascinating site that collates and analyses information about global 'film-flow', and represents data visually using maps and charts.
David Bordwell's Website on Cinema
Bordwell (and Thompson), stalwarts of Film Studies scholarship, blog about film art, exhibition, etc.
Film Dialogue
Another digital humanities project, this time analysing gender representation in dialogue from over 2,000 Hollywood films.
ARTISTS' FILM
LUX
Organisation devoted to artists' moving images, with online archive and resources.
DIGITAL CINEMA
Blue Bolt VFX
A company specialising in VFX posts showreels of their work, revealing how digital effects transform the images you see on screen.
Silent London
Excellent resource on silent cinema and you can sign up to receive email alerts from the frequent blog.
Brent on Film
A forum for silent film enthusiasts and scholars, including a blog and a community events calendar.
Women and Silent British Cinema
A site dedicated to the work of women directors, writers, producers and others working in the early film industry.
The Women Film Pioneers Project
Columbia University-led site that offers information about women filmmakers in the silent era.
Colonial Film Project
Digitzed films shot across the British empire with accompanying articles and descriptions.
Picture Going
Described as 'eyewitness accounts of viewing pictures', the site collates reports about early experiences in cinemas.
National Fairground Archive
Documents, ephemera, images and films relating to fairgrounds and early travelling Bioscope shows.
BRITISH NATIONAL CINEMA
British Film Institute Filmography
A digital humanities project at the BFI that collates and visualises data about labour in the British film industries. Look up the statistics about women working behind the camera between the start of the records (1911) and now - it might shock you.
British Film Institute (database)
The database lets you search the BFI's extensive collection of films, criticism and archival materials including scripts, posters and production notes.
British Film Institute BFI Player
An online archive of historical and contemporary films, with collections including wartime cinema (e.g. 1914 on Film) and the 2015 Academy Award winners.
British Pathe
Online, digitized collection of British Pathe newsreels.
British Movietone News
Another great digitized collection of newsreels all available online.
British Universities Film and Video Council
Database that gives you access to thousands of moving image, sound and written resources.
Kine Weekly
The British trade journal is available digitized and word searchable from 1955-1971 through the University of East Anglia. For earlier editions you have to look at the print copy (available at the British Library and UEA).
BECTU History Project
An oral history collection that features interviews with filmmakers, cinema workers (including projectionists) and stars.
East Anglia Film Archive
An archive of locally produced and amateur films, with many digitized and available online.
Southeast Screen Archive
Database of archived films, including examples of early cinema by filmmakers such as Paul and Hepworth.
National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive
Online database of the archival footage shot in, or about, Scotland, with much of the collection digitised.
BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification offers information about film distributors and censorship guidelines. Useful resource if you have triggers and want to check content before class screenings, etc.
HOLLYWOOD
Lantern (digital archive)
Word searchable, online archive of trade and fan presses covering the histories of film, broadcasting and recorded sound.
Paramount Vault
YouTube channel where you can access feature films and clips from the Paramount Studio archive.
Cinemetrics
Editing database that uses specialist software to calculate the cutting rate and shot lengths in various films.
Kinomatics
Fascinating site that collates and analyses information about global 'film-flow', and represents data visually using maps and charts.
David Bordwell's Website on Cinema
Bordwell (and Thompson), stalwarts of Film Studies scholarship, blog about film art, exhibition, etc.
Film Dialogue
Another digital humanities project, this time analysing gender representation in dialogue from over 2,000 Hollywood films.
ARTISTS' FILM
LUX
Organisation devoted to artists' moving images, with online archive and resources.
DIGITAL CINEMA
Blue Bolt VFX
A company specialising in VFX posts showreels of their work, revealing how digital effects transform the images you see on screen.