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National Film Preservation Foundation: Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Website of the National Film Preservation Foundation, with links to resources, images, and videos.
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Media History Digital Library: Year Books (1916 1964)

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge collection of original year books and annuals produced by the movie industry and covering the period from 1916 to 1964. These document the evolution of the motion picture industry. Sub-categories of the year books include film...
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The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores the history of film and visual arts. There is a tour, virtual exhibits, and related materials.
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University of California

Ucla Library: Film and Television Archive: Preserved Silent Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
View a selection of animated films from the early 1900s, each with corresponding notes and commentaries from the archive's historian and preservationist.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Film

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Magic Lanterns, Magic Mirrors

For Students 9th - 10th
Like fun house mirrors, motion pictures over the past one hundred years have reflected, challenged, influenced, and altered our visions of ourselves and the world in which we live. This virtual Exhibition was produced by the Photographic...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The online exhibits of the National Women's History Museum celebrate women in a wide variety of venues and roles. These include exhibits such as "Women in Early Film," "First But Not the Last: Women Who Ran for President," and "Young and...
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Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This amazing resouce is actually a set of three courses in teaching American history of the Northwestern U. S. from the 1700s to the year 2000. Each course is fifteen weeks long. But the course is laid out so that you can browse any...
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University of Virginia

Virginia Center for Digital History: Television News of the Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of streaming video samples of television news footage from 1950 to 1970, along with an assortment of primary source documents, first-person accounts, a glossary of terms, and essays and analysis for learning about the...
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Moving History: A Guide to Uk Film & Tv Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
A research guide to the United Kingdom?s twelve public sector moving image archives.
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George Eastman Museum

Eastmanhouse: Inventors in Imaging Technologies

For Students 9th - 10th
See how George Eastman, Thomas Edison, and Wilhelm Roentgen impacted American film history and had inventions that were interrelated.
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TES Global

Tes: Shakespeare on Screen: History Plays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher factsheet "Shakespeare's Histories" about Shakespeare's history plays from BFI's Shakespeare on Film.
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National Archives (UK)

The National Archives: Focus on Film

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Should students believe everything they see on tv? The National Archives provides this resource for students to examine cinemas as an accurate source of history. Links to archived videos and activities are provided. RI.11-12.7 Eval...
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: Strange Fruit, the Film

For Students 9th - 10th
Website on Strange Fruit, a documentary film about the history and legacy of the protest song "Strange Fruit." Includes the lyrics and audio for the song.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Made From Media

Made From History:10 Historical Myths Everyone Believes Because of Hollywood

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which highlights either myths that have emerged from factually incorrect movies or historical films that have had their facts tweaked in the name of art.
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Media History Digital Library: Government & Law Collection (1912 1995)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of original documents that deal with the interactions between the film industry and the government. They cover such issues as censorship, film industry regulation, labor issues, juvenile delinquency, and the blacklisting of...
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Classic Films

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a list of classic films.
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High Tech Productions: History of Film & Television

For Students 9th - 10th
High Tech Productions provides a timeline history of television. It starts at the invention of the motion picture camera and goes all the way through television's greatest moments.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Origins of American Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
An amazing collection of 21 animated films which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings, and early silent films.
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Digital History

Digital History: Trailers of Historically Significant Films

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links to trailers of historically significant American films.
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Media History Digital Library

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who...
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: The History of Film: The 1920's

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the history of film.
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The British Film Institute: Charlie Chaplin

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful celebration of the life and work of film great Charlie Chaplin. Fantastic resources including a biography as well as current global projects to restore his films.

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