Film Research Guide   Tags: albaugh, film, gerber-stroh, marshall, screenwriting  

Use our online catalog to search by title, author, subject or key word. Some examples of subject headings for film are:

• Motion pictures
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• Motion picture authorship
• Motion pictures production and direction
• Cinematography

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Requests made before 10:30 a.m. are available the same weekday after 1:00 p.m.; requests made after 10:30 a.m. are available next weekday after 1:00 p.m.

Use our online catalog to search for screenplays by title, author, or key word. You can also browse the shelf; most screenplays are shelved at call number PN 1997 on the library's second floor. (map)

American Film Scripts Online
This database contains more than 1000 full-length scripts, starting with "The Great Train Robbery (1903) and ending with The Departed (2006); it also contains unproduced scripts by a variety of authors including James Agee, Norman Krasna, Paul Schrader, James Dickey, Dorothy Parker and others. Search by author, title, subject, character and more.

SimplyScripts
Find screenplays free online, from a variety of sources.

You can also browse the shelves. The following call numbers contain the majority of film-related materials:

   Stacks:

• PN 1990-1992 - Broadcasting (including television)
• PN 1993-1999 - Motion Pictures
• TR 845-898 - Cinematography and Film Editing

   Reference:

• PN 1993 - PN 1999 (film and television)
• Z 5782 - Z 5784 M9 (film research guides: indexes, bibliographies etc.)
• TR 845-898 - Cinematography and Film Editing