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http://film.chadwyck.com/
Here's a definite improvement on the IMDB! Film Indexes Online brings BFI's Film Index International and the AFI Catalog together in one site.

 

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This CD-ROM from the University of Illinois Press traces the history of African Americans in film from 1894 to 1950. Canaday Library 1st floor, CD-ROM shelves, PN1995.9.N4 A364 2003.
This CD-ROM is like a treasure trove! A project of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, it contains hundreds of photographs, posters, production stills, and film clips, as well as voiceover introductions that help contextualize the first half century of black cinema. It also features an interactive searchable database that contains more than 3,300 movies emphasizing the contributions of African Americans to cinema.

 

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The Tri-College Libraries have a new general research database,Proquest Research Library. Proquest indexes Cineaste, Cinema Journal, Film Comment, Films in Review, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Revue Canadienne D'aetudes Cinematographiques, Velvet Light Trap, and others.... You can get tables of contents and search results delivered via email on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Simply browse to the Publications tab, find your journal, and click the yellow "Set up alert" button at the top of the journal's page. You can also save your favorite searches and have "alerting" emails sent when new articles are published on your topic. Just click the yellow "Set up alert" button at the top of your search results screen.

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