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American Highway Project view detail comment email this

Through photography and oral history interviews, this project documents the disappearing road culture of America. The photographs feature roadside landmarks such as motels, gas stations, theaters, and other oddities found along our highways. Road warriors will love the collection of links that lead them to old billboards, highways, diners, tourist attractions, drive-in theaters, road maps, and other gems of the American road.
http://www.highwayproject.org/
Topics: Architecture, Film, Movies, & Video, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections

Last updated Oct 30, 2005


Movie Showtimes & Tickets view detail comment email this

Find out when and where films are showing in your neighborhood. Enter your ZIP code and browse by movie. Movie information includes reviews, trailers, photos, production notes, cast interviews, official websites, and more. From Hollywood.com.
http://www.hollywood.com/movies/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Performing Arts

Last updated Oct 27, 2005


Moviefone view detail comment email this

Want to know what movies are playing locally? Plug in your zip code or city and Moviefone will find out for you. Also search and browse by film title.
http://www.moviefone.com/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation

Last updated Sep 15, 2009


Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces view detail comment email this

This site features illustrated essays about the architectural development of movie theaters, from nickelodeons to grand palaces during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, in light of the rise of mass consumer entertainment. Also includes a bibliography. From American Studies at the University of Virginia.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/
Topics: Architecture, Film, Movies, & Video

Last updated Feb 4, 2004


Southern California's Drive-Ins view detail comment email this

"A tribute to the drive-in movie theatre in Southern California." Contains photographs and brief descriptive information on theaters of the past and present. Includes related links.
http://www.socaldriveins.com/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video

Last updated Dec 30, 2005


Weegee's World: Life, Death, and the Human Drama view detail comment email this

Devoted to photojournalist Weegee (born Usher Fellig), a tabloid news photographer and the author of "Naked City" (1945). Includes a chronology and photographs, browsable by topic: Lower East Side (New York), police, fire, Coney Island, Times Square, the opera, war, lovers, Harlem, entertainment, movie theaters, the circus, Greenwich Village, and personalities. Online companion to exhibit of the same title from the International Center of Photography, New York.
http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/
Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography

Last updated Aug 14, 2005




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