Part of the HW Wilson Collection.
Cinema Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of cinema and television images, and accompanying historical and biographical data. All material is cleared for educational use.
Content description
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 make-up 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:
- Film studies students-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: Costume ideas for theatre productions.
- Art curriculum.
- History and Social Studies classes (war movies as an example).
- Language arts
- Writing prompts for creative writing class.
- 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.
See additional information about this database at http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/artcinema.htm
Main subject areas
Cinema Image Gallery includes over 150,000 still images, links to film reviews and other journal articles about the titles, actors, and directors, together with links to biographies of the stars of film and TV shows, portrait photography and more.
The combination of journal articles drawn from the over 4,500 journals included in all other Wilson periodical databases with the nearly 200,000 still images make this a multidisciplinary database.
Academic level
All levels from age 16 upwards.
Date range
Films of the latter part of the 19th century to the present.
Updates
Updated daily.
Publisher's selection policy
The primary source of content is the Kobel Collection. Content is selected for inclusion per a team of experts from the Picture Desk offices.
Cost
Subscription charges for Cinema Image Gallery for institutions without a subscription to Art Full Text or Art Abstracts:
Higher Education:
Further Education:
Subscription charges (full price -20%) for Cinema Image Gallery for institutions that are also subscribed to Art Full Text or Art Abstracts:
Higher Education:
Further Education:
Subscription charges (full price -20%) for the Art Museum Image Gallery and Cinema Image Gallery Package:
Higher Education:
Further Education:
Notes
Year 1 runs from 1 August 2009 - 31 July 2010.
Year 2 runs from 1 August 2010 - 31 July 2011.
Year 3 runs from 1 August 2011 - 31 July 2012.
All prices are exclusive of VAT.
An administration fee of £50 per invoice will be charged on invoices in excess of £600. This fee covers JISC Collections' administration and invoicing costs.
For institutions who subscribe to the Art Museum Image Gallery and Cinema Image Gallery Package, and who are also subscribed to Art Full Text or Art Abstracts, the discount offered will be "full price -30%".
How does JISC Banding and Charging work?
Subscription
The agreement runs for three years, from 1st August 2009 to 31st July 2012. Institutions may subscribe at any time and may terminate the agreement in 31st July 2010 or 31st July 2011 by giving JISC Collections sixty days notice to that effect.
For instructions on how to subscribe, and to access the sub-licence agreement, please go to the subscription page.
The agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence.
For further details of the JISC Model Licence please refer to the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
The supplementary full text articles included in Cinema Image Gallery are not accessible as targets to Open URL link resolvers. They may be used as the source of an Open URL query.
Federated searching
WilsonWeb supports all known major vendors’ federated search clients. Details are available at:
MARC records
Full-level MARC bibliographic records for every full text electronic journal in a database is available upon request. The MARC record meets full compliance and includes the OCLC record number, ISSN, and a Persistent URL in the 856 field, in load-ready format.
Metadata standards
Wilson databases are compliant with all known metadata standards.
Search options
WilsonWeb offers two search modes: Basic Search and Advanced Search. The default search mode is Advanced Search.
- Basic Search
In the Basic Search mode, the searcher selects one or more databases, enters words, terms, or phrases as either a Natural Language or Boolean Search. The system searches the terms entered as keywords.
- Advanced Search
The Advanced Search mode presents a variety of options to help the user construct an effective search in that specific database. In addition to entering one or more search terms, the searcher may combine terms using Boolean operators (default is "and") and specify the field in which the terms appear. The searcher may also customize the sort order and elect to limit the search by full text, date, document type and/or physical descriptors.
- Browsing
The WilsonWeb Browse feature offers lists of subjects, sources, authors, document types, materials accompanying articles, and much more.
- Searching from the thesaurus
Wilson has developed an expansive thesaurus feature to assist searchers in effective controlled vocabulary (subject) searching. This is another tool that allows a student to take full advantage of the Wilson indexing vocabulary without knowing in advance the preferred terms to be used.
- Using search history
The user can save search results for future sessions, view search histories, update saved searches, or retrieve new records added to the database since the user’s last search. Saved searches may be modified or combined with other searches to create a new search strategy from the Search History page. The Search History screen is a dynamic, powerful, and flexible tool.
Post-search options
Users may print, save and email search results.
Users may export records to EndNote and RefWorks.
Usage statistics
WilsonWeb offers two primary levels of usage reports. The first is a set of Standard WilsonWeb/ICOLC Reports, which includes the following:
- Session Usage Report.
- Peak Usage Report.
- Database Usage Report.
- Journal Usage Report.
- IP Usage Report.
- Turnaways Report.
The second level of usage reports are the COUNTER Compliant Reports. WilsonWeb offers four Release 2 compliant reports as listed below:
- JR1 = Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal.
- DB1 = Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database.
- DB2 = Database Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Database.
- DB3 = Database Report 3: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service.
The COUNTER reports have been integrated into our Standard WilsonWeb/ICOLC statistical interface.
See additional information about the WilsonWeb statistical reporting function.
Authentication
Authentication is via UK Access Management Federation, Athens, IP range, referring web page, user cookie, direct user ID/password login, and login with patron ID (library barcode).
Personalisation of the online resource
- Institutions can include their logo or include a personalised message through the Administrators’ module setting to include up to two custom logos.
- Users may personalise the online resource with their own saved searches, tags, alerting service or keywords.
- Users may personalize the interface with 4 discrete color combinations, and other display choices including complete customization of fields displayed and language interface choices.
- RSS alerts are offered at no extra charge.
- The My WilsonWeb service allows each individual user to completely customize their search experience.
Accessibility
With recent addition of Wilson’s text-to-speech software service (at no extra charge), WilsonWeb now exceeds Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) section 508 and similar requirements in other countries for special accessibility.
Library support information