Library Guides: Cinema and Media Studies: Finding film beyond Chicago

Tools for finding film beyond Chicago

Use these catalogs and databases to identify archival collections of scripts, personal papers, and films beyond the University of Chicago.

Paper Print Film Collection
Collection of paper prints held at the Library of Congress
Early Film Collections from the Library of Congress
American Silent Feature Film Database
Currently not online, but staff in the Moving Image Research Center are able to provide information from the database.
List of Lost Films from the Library of Congress
Pdf that will link to the entries in the Silent Film Database. In instances where a fragment from one reel, trailer, outtakes or stills survive,
that film is included in this list as a lost film.
Treasures from the Film Archives: A Catalog of Short Silent Fiction Films Held by FIAF Archives
A useful source of information on surviving short films, but not a complete catalog.
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
A master list of international collections maintained by the Library of Congress.
UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog

WorldCat (OCLC)

WorldCat is a database that allows researchers to search the combined catalogs of hundreds of libraries around the world. It contains more than 52 million records for books, journals, audiovisual materials and more. This source can help researchers find items, verify citations, and identify which libraries hold a particular title.