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• Classic Hollywood@
• Museums (9)
• Preservation (6)

• Movietone News Online - view a digitized newsreel complete with sound, send a postcard from their archives, or rewrite history yourself.

• 100 Years since Lumiere's Shock - retrospects of 100 years of cinema, prospects of next 100 years
• Archives of Early Lindy Hop - Archive of the original Lindy Hop at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the 1930's. Lists of films containing Lindy Hop, gossip about dancers.
• Bill Douglas Centre, The - devoted to the history of cinema and popular culture. Contains more than 25,000 books and 30,000 images and artefacts, including a spectacular collection of the nineteenth century optical devices that preceded the invention of cinema: Dioramas, Panoramas, Amelias, Protean Views, Ombrascopes, Zoetropes, the Kinegraph, and many others
• Dermatology in the Cinema (Skin in the Movies) - features pictures of actors and characters with various skin conditions.
• Early Motion Pictures (1897-1916) - from the Library of Congress.
• Film 100, The - a ranking of the 100 most influential people in the history of cinema. Containing a large collection of biographical information, film studies, interactive demos, and web links.
• Great Hollywood Moments from the Cutting Room Floor - repieces dialogue cut from films before the final draft. These outtakes are very revealing!
• Hollywood Archology
• Northeast Historic Film - independent moving-image archive, collecting and preserving motion picture film and videotape.
• Today in Movies - births, deaths, and names of films released on this day in history.
• Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Works - film studio photographer working from the '20 through the '90s and who is known for his portraits of celebrities.
• Venezia Cinema La Biennale - The History of "Venezia Cinema La Biennala" from 1932 to 1994 with a link to the 50a edition.