Some resources for your enjoyment, some helpful, some interesting, all film related.
ACADEMIC
FILM ART
Companion site to your Film Art textbook.
writing about films
Some excellent suggestions on how to write about film.
the bioscope
The Bioscope is dedicated to the subject of early and silent cinema. It is designed to be a news and information resource on all aspects of the motion picture before sound. It covers news, publications, events, discoveries, documents, critical theory, filmmakers, performers, audiences and technology, and aims to encompass film production, distribution and exhibition in the silent era, as well as ‘pre-cinema’, chronophotography, optical toys, and related media, across the world. There is an emphasis on scholarly discovery, but there should be as much here for the general enthusiast as for the specialist.
early cinema
Earlycinema.com aims to provide an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the developments which helped shape cinema as we know it today.
senses of cinema
An online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema, of art, independent and experimental cinemas.
BLOGS
David Bordwell's film blog
The author of your text book runs a blog...about film!
early cinema tumbler
An interesting tumbler site dedicated to early cinema, includes films, stills and discussions
WHERE TO WATCH ONLINE
american memory
The Library of Congress’ American Memory digitised materials site remains a world beater. There are several sections on the site which include silent films, such as Edison titles, early animation, variety films and films of New York
BFI youtube channel
has a fascinating mix of oddities, including many silents
internet archive
The Internet Archive’s Movies section offers a huge number of freely available and downloadable movies, which we must assume are all in the public domain (under US law). The silents can mostly be traced through the keywords option under Feature Films.
mubi
This Martin Scorsese-backed online cinematheque includes a number of silents among its selection of world cinema classics which can be viewed for a fee.
open video project
An international repository of digitised video content designed for the research community, which includes nearly 200 early Edison titles, most of which won’t be found on the American Memory site
OTHER STUFF
steven hill's movie title screen archive
Thousands and thousands of searchable title screen stills