Archives

Part of the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Los Angeles. Collection includes over 100,000 items, covering some 70,000 individual titles.

Preserves and exhibits over 800,000 vintage photographs and negatives. Contains exhibit details, a library, and a restoration laboratory. Located in Florence, Italy. [Italian and English

Archives held at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, containing primary source material on the history, craft, and art of comedy. Features oral history interviews with comedy writers, producers, and performers.

Holds books, periodicals and special collections covering aspects of motion pictures and television. Collections include thousands of scripts and production records. Visitor information. Los Angeles, California.

Preserves and exhibits film and video with a focus on independent and avant-garde cinema. Holdings include books, periodicals, photographs, documents, manuscripts, letters, scripts, notebooks, and clippings. New York.

Collection of architectural drawings, mostly of Welsh structures, held at The National Library of Wales.

America's largest collection of poular recordings with over 1.6 million discs. A research facility providing information on all aspects of popular music.

From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.

Full-text digital archive containing materials on Turkish folklore, history, literature, ethnography, from the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.

Contains large collections of print works and recordings from Turkey, South India, and of Byzantine chant, in addition to other holdings.