Motion Picture Arts / Filmmaking

From Choice, "The portal to Europe's cultural and scientific history, the European Film Gateway (EFG) provides access to a large collection of historical film documents, mainly from European film archives. Currently the database contains over 550,000 items, nearly all of which are images, though it includes 26,000-plus videos and 10,000-plus texts."

Created by the Museum of the Moving Image, Moving Image Source is a website devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media. It features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major retrospectives, festivals, and gallery exhibitions at venues around the world; and a regularly updated guide to online research resources.

Large collection of papers and media, some of which has been digitized. Among the notable collections: The Papers of Edith Head, The Hollywood Blacklist Collections.

Scanned issues of public domain magazines - trade publications and fan mags - with coverage ranging from 1903-1995.

Extensive old Hollywood collection including many Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences documents. Oscar photos, lobby cards, posters, letters and other key resources for the classic American moviemaking industry

Film criticism is widely covered in articles - try a search in Discovery above to look for articles on your topic.