Finding Documentary Resources on the WEB

U.S. Government Sources

• National Archives and Records Administration
  http://www.nara.gov
• Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/ARCH/DEPT_archives.html#research Los Alamos
• National Laboratory
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/
• Defense Visual Information Center
  http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/dvic/index.htm
• DOE Nevada Coordination and Information Center
  http://www.nv.doe.gov/

Societies, Associations, and Archives

• Associations Unlimited
  http://www.bu.edu/library/
• Repositories of Primary Sources
  http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
• American Institute of Physics
  http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
  
• American Archives of Factual Film
  http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/aaff.html

Commercial Sources

• Footage.net
  http://www.footage.net/
• Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
  http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

Foreign Sources

• International Federation of Film Archives
  http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/FIAF/

Copyright

• United States Copyright Office
  http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

One of the best sources of information for film and video research is not on the web:
"Footage: North American Film and Video Sources "
New York, New York: Second Line Search, 1997

Information on this page is provided by Mary McGowan, Reference Librarian of Boston University. Mary can be reached at mmcgowan@bu.edu.

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