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The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.

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  • Wellesnet  
    Maintained by Jeff Wilson and Lawrence French, this regularly updated blog links to recent online articles about Welles. Also includes a bibliography.
  • Werner Herzog (official site)  
    The filmmaker's official site. Features a bibliography, biographical information, press releases for recent films, and links to recent interviews. The complete filmography features a wealth of film stills.
  • Who's Who of Victorian Cinema  
    Biographies of actors and directors, as well as rigorously researched articles about the technology, creation, and exhibition of early film. The sources page also functions as a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the topic. Created by Luke McKernan, a British film historian.
  • Wide Screen   Peer Reviewed
    Wide Screen is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the critical study of cinema from historical, theoretical, political, and aesthetic perspectives.
  • William K. Everson Collection at New York University  
    The William K. Everson collection features a growing number of downloadable film-related advertisements, including full reproductions of press kits. There is also a photo section, which contains portraits of film stars autographed to Everson.
  • WilsonWeb   Paid Subscription Required Peer Reviewed
    Search a wide range of popular and scholarly journals.
  • Women in Film & Television: A Bibliography   Peer Reviewed
    A list of books and journal articles about the representation of women in film and television. The material spans many different genres, eras, and topics. Includes links to other topical bibliographies on the UC Berkeley site, such as "Sex in the Movies" and "Hollywood Melodrama." The resources listed are available in the UC Berkeley library, but many of the books can be found elsewhere.
  • Women Make Movies  
    Women Make Movies is a distributor of independent films made by and about women.
  • World's First Television Recordings  
    A website devoted to the pre-history of television in Great Britain, featuring early experiments in television by John Logie Baird in 1926. Archived are some of the earliest known television recordings, including Baird's experiments with his Phonovision system and early BBC test recordings from the 1930s.
  • WorldCat   Peer Reviewed
    WorldCat allows users to search the collection catalogs of 10,000 libraries by location. Type in a keyword and zip code to find the closest library that holds a specific item.
  • Writers Guild of America, East   Paid Subscription Required
    The website for the East Coast branch of WGA includes information specific to the New York-based industry, daily news updates, and basic information.
  • Writers Guild of America, West   Paid Subscription Required
    Information concerning the activities of the Writers Guild of America. Aspects of this website available to non-members include: basic information on the Writers Guild, information on other international writing guilds, and an interactive timeline of the WGA's history.