duPont Library: Film Studies 108: History of Film: Invention to Mid-Century: Getting Started

Welcome

This guide is intended to direct you to fundamental resources to use when performing research in the area of Film Studies.The resources here are by no means comprehensive, but are intended to help you achieve a sound start to your work.

Please feel free to contact me if you have suggestions for additions or other ways to improve this guide.

Streaming Videos

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
A web-based digital video delivery service. Offers more than 77,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and personalize folders. Includes the FMG Archival Films & Newsreels Collection.
Includes titles from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian, BBC, and more.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
A collection of online educational videos from leading filmmakers and production houses, such as First Run Features, Criterion, Green Planet Films, Kino, and more. There is content in nearly every subject: arts, business, health, media, sciences, humanities, and K-12 education. Features include commentary and engagement tools, clip and playlist creation, and the ability for faculty to embed films within Blackboard.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
This site contains feature films which we have licensed from Swank Digital Campus. Films are licensed for a year so the selection will change.

Other Helpful Skills

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Film Studies 108: History of Film: Invention to Mid-Century

Subject Guide

Welcome

Streaming Videos

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