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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Home of the little gold statue, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was organized as a non-profit corporation in May, 1927. Its original 36 members included production executives and film luminaries of the time. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was the first president. The Academy today is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,000 motion picture craftsmen and women. The site never seems to be finished, but its a great place to visit!
Interesting site features:
Award database

Ain't It Cool Museum

If you've never been to Ain't It Cool News, it can only be described as the Internet vortex of movie and TV production news and rumors. "Father Geek" is the host of the featured AICN Museum page, which purports to be about classic film. Check out the rest of AICN for the latest on the latest.

All Movie Guide

Excellent site for researchers of old and new Hollywood films and movie people. Page design is very modern with "BUY" links to CDNow. Lacks the populist warmth of the IMDb, but impressive!

American Film Institute

President Johnson signed legislation in 1965 creating the National Endowment for the Arts, which established the American Film Institute as an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of film and television, identifying and training new talent, and increasing recognition and understanding of the moving image as an art form. The AFI is the only national arts organization devoted to film, television and video, serving as a point of national focus and coordination for the many individuals and institutions concerned with the moving image as art. Institute programs emanate from the AFI campus in Los Angeles and the AFI Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Interesting site features:
The AFI Top 100 Lists
Links to libraries
Film preservation information

American Movie Classics

Home page for AMC-TV, one of two major US cable stations providing access to great Hollywood films from the distant past. Increasingly lavish and busy site design and inconsistent monthly schedule downloads are the only drawback. Watch the station regularly and drop by here when you get bored.

American Picture Palaces

Mary Halnon's delightful and scholarly review of the history of the movie theater, created for the school of American Studies at the University of Virginia. Covers the rise from the nickelodeon to 40s palaces. Lots of well-anointed pix and an extensive bibliography. A must for movie theater fans.

Atom Films

One of the original interactive movie sites on the web, Atom Films is a great place to go for a couple of quickies or any number of great independent films and Macromedia Flash cartoons. Now that they've merged with shockwave.com they claim to reach a mass audience of more than 16 million unique users every month. Wow!

But they have great stuff here, so check it out. Broadband is not required, but be patient. Even Flash takes a while to load.

Interesting site features:
Star Wars Fan Film Awards (with the blessing of Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Palm and Pocket PC OS downloads

Bela Lugosi

The Official Bela Lugosi Site, with everything you probably already know about the 30's most famous face and more!

Black and White Movies

John Vincent Brennan's film community features articles and a discussion board dedicated to the great B&W films from Kong to Kane.

Interesting site features:
Is There a Future for Films of the Past?

Blonde Bimbos of the Big Screen

Stu Kobak's homage to "brassy Blonde, buxom, painted and willing, with a bottom swagger suggestive enough to turn heads in every direction."

Interesting site features:
The rest of the Films on Disc site

BMW Films

This site features online films by John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie and Alejandro GonzÃ¡lez IÃ±Ã¡rritu. The Executive Producer is David Fincher, who founded Propaganda Films after starting with Industrial Light and Magic as a teenager. Films are in QuickTime, but BMW recommends their own BMW Player.

Interesting site features:
BMW Interactive Film Player - The BMW Player allows you to play enhanced QuickTime films that play up to 2.5 times larger than streaming films and include added content and features

Bob Hope Enterprises

The Official Bob Hope Site features a complete Bob Hope store. Great historical pix and other stuff you won't find elsewhere. This site is unique!
Interesting site features:
The Bob Hope Bulletin Board - a new feature in 2002!

Bob Hope and American Variety

There were more than 20,000 vaudeville performers working in the 1920s. Mr. Hope has generously opened his personal vaudeville collection to the Library of Congress for this delightful online exhibit. Whether you were on the boards or not, lemme tell ya folks, you gotta see this!
Interesting features:
Hope saved movie stuff you simply will not find anywhere else!
The Bob Hope Joke File and a shot of Mr. Hope in his Joke Vault (seriously!)
Faces of Bob Hope
Everything on this site is History, man!

BRANDOLAND

It's been around since 1996, which is an achievement in itself for an unofficial site. Very comprehensive look at Marlon Brando's life and career. Everything you might expect and more. Probably the best Brando site on the web.
Interesting site features:
Links to media
Interviews

Britshorts

They present "only the cream of the British and European short film market." Over fifty self-produced and favorite shorts. See them for free and decide for yourself. The site is nice. Films are available in QuickTime, RealVideo and Windows Media Player formats.

Interesting site features:
Listing of upcoming film festivals

British Film Institute

A film historian's delight! Created in 1948 and chartered again in 1983, the BFI is home to the largest collection of films and television titles in Europe (including the National Film and Television Archive.) The collection ranges from modern films to early newsreels documenting everything from the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb to the suffragette movement. BFI also houses a massive Stills, Posters and Designs Collection (incorporating over seven million on and off-screen moments, over 15,000 movie posters and 20,000 star portraits), a Special Collections department which gives you access to personal working papers of the movie greats, letters, programs, marketing releases and a great deal more.
Interesting site features:
Current film news
Books and videos
Museum of the Moving Image (online)
Making Movies - News, advice and information for film-makers
Film Links Gateway

Classic Film and Television

Very detailed, text-based site by Michael E. Grost. Cinema subjects range from profiles of classic directors to Avant-garde film to Film Noir and Neorealism. Where else are you going to find Jacques Tourneur, Edgar G. Ulmer, W.S. Van Dyke, and Roy Del Ruth on the same site?
Interesting site features:
Bios of many directors from all eras
Contemporary Costume Designers
Japanese Films
TV Cop shows and their Writers and Directors

Classic Movies

Brad Lang's site offers "Everything for the fan of classic Hollywood!" and it certainly covers a lot of ground from the late 1920s through the early 1990s. Mr. Lang is a writer, musician and an acknowledged movie expert who used to run the About.com Classic Movies site. The A-Z list connects you to Movies Unlimited, where you can buy what you are looking for.
Interesting site features:
A to Z Classic Movie Listing
Classic Movie Forum
Classic Movie Star Tributes
Movie Sounds
New on DVD This Week

Classic Movies Screensavers and Wallpaper

Like it says, plus they will make screensavers for you from any classic title.

ClassicMovies.com

ClassicMovies showcases five movie clips each month from different areas of their catalog in QuickTime format. The catalog is really great, with everything from Mack Sennett to Josef Von Sternberg to sci fi B-movies like Val Guest's The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961). The full films are available as commercial 35mm/16mm prints under Standard License Agreements, but the previews are free.

Dark Horizons

Dark Horizons has become one of the hottest sites around to find out the latest news, images, clips and reviews of all the current and upcoming blockbuster films. Also included are some great episode guides to your favorite cult TV shows, as well as a weekly breakdown of films and shows screening in the US, the UK and Australia.
Interesting site features:
News and Rumors
Film Indexes from 1997 on.

Dark Rides

Ghost trains, spook houses, and pretzel rides remembered. Not a film site, but interesting.

The Life and Films of David Manners

Sounds like a Hollywood legend! One of the most popular leading men from 1931 to 1936 - a romantic lead, the good guy star of Dracula (Jonathan Harker), The Mummy, The Black Cat and the enigmatic Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood - quits films forever suddenly at the peak of his career and vanishes into relative obscurity. But guess what? He outlives everyone he ever worked with! John Norris wrote to Manners in 1971 and eventually the two became friends. This wonderful dedicated site contains "virtually all of the material" collected by the actor while he was in Hollywood. A stunning tribute!
Interesting site features:
Stills (many autographed) from all of Manners' films (1930s)
Book covers from the actor's two novels (1940s)
Scans of David Manners' oil pastels (1990s!!!)

David Manners - Part I

David Manners - Part II

Rick McKay's two unique and amazing interviews from 1997-98 with David Manners (see above) in his 90s. A long, but worthwhile read for any classic film fan.

Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency

Movie reviews presented in a very unusual, if inexplicable, format.

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