Cinema Image Gallery presents the history of film and television through more than 195,000 high quality images of films in production; directors working on set with the stars; set, costume and production design as well as hair and makeup shots and rare behind the scenes material.
Cinema Image Gallery also offers an extensive TV stills archive featuring classic and modern TV: comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows and thousands of pictures of the stars of this medium. In addition, Cinema Image Gallery offers over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards used to promote movies. This database is a vital research tool for movie history images, providing some of the most stunning examples of period and contemporary design — from classics and blockbusters to B movie favorites.
Users can search this database seamlessly with the Wilson Art Suite: Art Full Text, Art Abstracts, Art Index, Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984, Art Museum Image Gallery, and Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. All images are rights cleared for education use. Cinema Image Gallery provides links to reviews and other articles about the titles, as well as to biographies.
Search fields include Title, Director, Actor Names, Genre, and Awards (Academy Award, Cannes Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild).
User benefits:
- offers significant historical data both within the database itself and through links to Wilson biographies and appropriate outside Web sites.
- makes the library a uniquely authoritative and helpful resource for:
- flm studies students - this resource provides a visual insight into the history of film back to the 19th century. History of film, history of screenwriting, cultural attitudes as evidenced by literature, and screen adaptations
- older students - with coverage of films over the entire 20th and up to the present seniors will find this an irresistibly entertaining and informative resource
- youth - expand beyond the research world to attract teenagers and all ages with entertainment and information about films
- Cinema Image Gallery is the perfect complement to the library DVD film collection - Justify DVDs that the library purchases- includes nearly all of the best movies
- Cinema Image Gallery is a valuable complement to any biography database
- flexible search functionality allows for both simple and complex searching
- this database supports creation of email alerts and RSS feeds, which provide notification when new items that satisfy the parameters of a search are added to the database
- every HTML full text article can be listened to as a streaming MP3 audio file
- on the go students can download audio version of full-text articles in to their digital media players, at no extra charge
- full text articles can be translated into 10 foreign languages
Cinema Image Gallery is particularly useful for:
- theatre studies, for example costume ideas for theatre productions
- art courses
- history and social studies classes, for example war films
- languages
- writing prompts for creative writing courses
- biography research
Using the My WilsonWeb tool, users can save searches and alerts, create folders for their saved articles, stores important notes, and customize their search preferences.
Additional information about this resource is available from the publisher's website.
