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M AR 100B: Film and Television History, Mid-20th Century to the Present
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Historical Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times (1881-1987) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Historical Newspapers Online (Index to New York Times & Times, London)
Index to articles from The New York Times and Times of London. Database will indicate date, page and column of the article. Newspapers can be found on Microfilm.
Full text of articles from The Times of London, 1785-1870 are included in this database.
Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
Guide
Complete version of the New York Times, including viewing of entire pages as well as specific articles.
- The library owns Variety (in print, on microfilm or online) from 1905 to the present. Many films were advertised in Variety.
- To locate advertisments, one can either just browse the issues at the time of the release of the film, or look in those issues in which the film was reviewed in Variety (to do this, consult . Variety Film Reviews PN1995 .V34 Main Ref, or Index to Motion Pictures Reviewed By Variety, 1907-1980. PN1995 .A39 1982 Main Ref).
Finding Film Reviews
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company,
is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular
general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects
the history of 20th century America.
The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
Film Index International
Detailed information about motion pictures (production information) & cinema workers. Includes references to articles
full: Film Index International gives full international coverage of films and film personalities from over 170 countries, up to the present day. All eras of film-making are covered - from the early silent movies to recent box-office hits. Based on the British Film Institute's Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database, Film Index International is both inclusive and authoritative.
International Index to Film Periodicals
FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering coverage of domestic and international academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present. Also included is the Treasures from Film Archives Database (with holdings information on over 35,000 silent films in archives around the world), the Documentation Collections database (with information on domestic and international film archives) and a database of FIAF member publications (for publications as early as 1934, and comprehensive since 1966).
Film reviews from Variety (1938-1994) Location: PN1995 .V34 Main Ref.
Motion Picture Reviews 1907-1980. Location: PN1995 .A39 1982 Main Ref.
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