Film Studies

Access information about film, television, actors, and more, including brief biographies, awards won, and film credits.

"The AdViews digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s" (from Duke University).

"Contains over 100 films created by Texas-born filmmaker Gordon Knox (1906 – 1992) or Mr. Knox’s production company, The Princeton Film Archives. The collection contains short and feature-length documentaries produced between 1937 and 1964 for the United States Armed Forces, state and federal government agencies, non-profit organizations and private sector clients."

"In the pre-TV era, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. ... These newsreels offer a fascinating and unique view of an era when motion pictures defined our culture and were a primary source of visual news reporting" (from Internet Archive).