Describes the facilities and holdings of three major film and television libraries and recounts how the resources available in such facilities were used to research a scholarly work on the making of the film "Citizen Kane." (CLB)

The Carleton Video Tape Project has been funded by grants from the Kettering and National Science Foundations. Information on tapes available can be obtained by writing to Carleton Video Tape Project, Northfield, Minnesota, 55057. (DS)

Very briefly describes a workshop on film and television documentation that informed participants about available reference and resource materials for information about films and television shows. (CLB)

A discussion of the existence and consequences of censored or edited television films held by film libraries. (CH)

The first section of this guide gives sources for research on film and television, both commercial and educational. The second section is a bibliography listing materials in ten categories: (1) film and television directories, encyclopedias, and yearbooks; (2) television reference; (3) biographical dictionaries and filmographies; (4)…

More than 200 companies which produce videocassette hardware and software are listed in this 150-page catalog. The first section of the catalog is an alphabetical listing of the major producers and distributors of videocassettes and related equipment in the U. S. and nineteen other countries. Each listing describes the main products of each…

Television archiving is a new field involving the tasks of sorting, preserving, and filing in order to make records available to future historians. Only 5% of all television programing since 1948 exists today on tape or kinescope. Prior to 1968, not even the networks kept a comprehensive file of news shows. Although the DuMont Television Network…

The 1973 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) handbook covers the activities and state of the BBC. It first presents a profile of the BBC's first 50 years and of the awards presented to the BBC. The television activities of the BBC are discussed next, including its television service, world television, television enterprises, television film…

This report summarizes a project conducted by a group of catalogers from film archives devoted to nitrate preservation, which explored ways of developing a database to provide a complete film and television information service that would be available nationwide and could contain filmographic data, information on holdings in archives and…

This publication of the New York State Education Department addresses three applications of video in New York schools. Chapter 1 discusses public, cable, and commercial television broadcast resources, resources in the form of videotape libraries and collections, and resource utilization. The second chapter focuses on the process and product of…

Over 200 brief reports and some 85 case studies, developed from responses to a national questionnaire, report the state of the art for new media activities in public libraries. Through these case studies of large and small libraries throughout the United States, a picture of public library use of television, audio programs, mediamobiles, plus all…

In response to a request by the National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT), a study was conducted to see what types of film and video archives presently exist. Archives can be classified into three types: (1) production archives used as resources in the making of other films and tapes, (2) film studio archives used to store prints for future…

Discusses the feasibility of individual television film libraries combining film holdings onto optical disks and developing networks that would allow online searching of, access to, and transmission of video images. It is concluded that recent advances in technology would support fast and cost effective image retrieval with no loss in video…

The Information Retrieval Television (IRTV) system was a unique experimental media program initiated in several Ottawa schools in the fall of 1968. The program was designed to allow teachers to select televised audiovisual programs for their classes when and where they choose. This arrangement freed teachers from broadcast schedules and the…

This article discusses the Hawai'i Student Film Festival (HSFF) which is more than an annual festival. It also facilitates nine, year-round, student outreach programs that are available to more than 400 public and private schools statewide. Through these programs, HSFF offers a wide array of film and video opportunities and experiences for…