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Academic Film Research Resources, Current (Print)
 | Alexander, Geoff.
Academic
Films for the Classroom: A History (2010, McFarland) Written by
the director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, this book
provides a history of the educational film movement in North America, with
special chapters dedicated to film companies (e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films) and individual filmmakers (e.g. John Barnes) that contributed to the
genre. |
| Orgeron, Devin & Marsha, and Streible, Dan (Editors).
Learning with
the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (2012,
Oxford University Press). This book contains 19 essays covering a breadth of
the educational film movement, including industrial, medical, nature, and
race & religion films, as well as writings on archiving and collecting. |
| Smith, Ken.
Mental
Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970 (1999,
Blast Books). This book focuses on the Guidance film sub-genre, with
emphasis on sex, drugs, dating, and driver safety films. Filmmakers such as
Sid Davis, and companies such as Centron and Coronet are profiled. |
Academic Film Research Resources, Out of Print (Print)
| Bowker's Educational Film Locator was an easy-to use guide, made
in cooperation with a large consortium of university film centers.
Like Landers (below), it contains bibliographical information, but without
credits for individual directors and producers. The first edition, in
one book, was published in 1978. Far more valuable was the two-volume,
4th edition of 1990-1991, since most academic film companies had stopped
producing films in 16mm by 1987 or so. |
| Footage 89, published by Rick Prelinger in 1989, contains
abstracts and contact information on many of the companies producing film
and video of the era |
| Landers Film Reviews were an informational guide to most of the films
sold to schools during the years of 1960 through 1989, published five times
a year by this now-defunct Escondido, CA firm. Each film review
included a synopsis and credits. While full of great data, you have to
search each issue separately, and master index of all films in all years
would be useful. If it exists, we haven't found it yet. |
| H.W. Wilson Company's Educational Film Catalog (later
Educational Film Guide), published its first edition in 1936, before
doing it annually beginning in 1943 |
Academic film Research Resources (CD)
| AV-Online is a CD resource containing bibliographic records of over
660,000 educational moving image items, compiled by NICEM
(National Information Center for Educational Media), dating from 1900
through 2007. The CD can be ordered by calling Diane Corrado at (646)
674-6441 |
Academic film Research Resources (Online)
| Copyright is a Byzantine labyrinth of laws, made easier, in terms of US
film copyright issues, by Cornell
University's
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, based on
research and documentation by Peter Hirtle, Laura Gasawy, and others.
It is printable as a PDF document. |
| For European film copyright laws, visit
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0116:EN:NOT
, which codifies Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and
certain related rights. Articles 2 and 3 have specific references
to cinema copyright issues. |
| The Internet Archive
hosts hundreds of films, all available to view free of charge, including our
own emerging Academic Film Archive of North America collection. |
| A-V Online, discussed in print resources above, can be ordered as
an online
subscription, too. |
| The Moving Image
Collection (MIC) initiative from the Library of Congress documents
the holdings of many of the world's most significant film archives,
including
those of the Academic Film Archive of North America. |
| Skip Elsheimer's AV Geeks
site is a campy, fun site that showcases another aspect of the educational
film world |
| Tom Davenport's terrific
Folkstreams site is a "National Preserve of Documentary Films about
American Roots Cultures," streamed with essays about the traditions and
filmmaking. Worth a visit. |
| Ethnographic film buffs will enjoy the
National Anthropological Archives'
site. |
| Many of you are, like us, involved in preserving film. The
Library of
Congress has published a document that details
some of the challenges and scope of the problem of film storage and
preservation. |
| Scott Stark'
Flicker site has
done a fine job documenting alternative cinemas all over the world.
If you're traveling, consult his site first to find interesting cinema
(click on "Venues") . |
| Pratt Institute's extensive database covers the world of
art on film (we found 51 wonderfully annotated references
to films on Picasso alone.) |
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