Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute, the AFI Catalog is the premier resource for studying American motion pictures. It is the most comprehensive and detailed national filmography in the world. The Catalog includes the entire print version, which comprises fifteen volumes documenting all films produced in the United States from 1893 to 1970, as well as new digital content and important updates for all records through 2015. Also included are complete records for AFI Awards winners for the years 2000 to 2015. The Catalog offers authoritative plot summaries and insider production notes, as well as subject and song indexing for each film record.

AFI Catalog now includes new content and functionality:

  • Quick Search on Home Page
  • AFIs Top Ten Films of 2000-2007
  • Webmaster to answer your questions
  • 搜索历史记录
  • 编辑准则
  • Extensive updates to existing records

The film experts at AFI are continually updating and revising their more than 48,000 records so as to reflect the very latest in scholarship and research. Each of the twice annual releases includes not only new film records, but revised and updated records.

The Catalog is an esteemed and highly reputable research tool for students of film. It is a unique filmographic resource - a standard in libraries throughout the world. The reputation for quality, comprehensiveness, accuracy, and level of detail is unmatched. Only AFI Catalog guarantees the authority of its content.

创建目录卷的过程是一个艰苦的位置和观看电影,以及研究工作室记录以及现代和现代资源,以在电影中生产成千上万的无偏见条目,从著名的录音室大片到掩盖曾经是倒闭的时期电影。该目录是电影研究和保存活动的无与伦比的工具,将运动图像的发展作为20世纪的艺术和文化表达的独特手段。

Fields Indexed:

  • 关键字将搜索所有字段
  • Film Title browse a list (also searches alternative, foreign titles)
  • Character Names browse a list (can search non-inverted names)
  • 演员和工作人员浏览清单
  • Production browse a list (see chart)
  • Based On browse a list of source information (see chart)
  • Release browse a list (see chart)
  • 发布年
  • Subject browse a list
  • Genre browse a list
  • Songs browse a list

Each indexed list contains many levels of selection (for example, the Cast and Crew list contains 11 different types of jobs indexed).

权威性。AFI Catalog is developed by the film experts at the famous American Film Institute, the premier film research and educational facility in the United States.

详细的覆盖范围。Coverage begins with the very earliest American films and thoroughly covers this early era. It is the premier resource on early American films.

Plot Summaries.The AFI Catalog is noted for its thorough and extensive plot summaries. For major movies, such as Casablancaand Gone with the Wind, the plot summaries are often over 1,700 words in length.

Production Notes.AFI目录也指出详细的职业duction notes, which offer inside information on casting preferences, debuts, delays, script re-writes and other important information. For major movies, these notes are often over 1,400 words in length.

Scholarly.丰富的索引内容使学生能够跟踪有关电影的深入信息。所有字段均可通过关键字搜索,并允许用户通过11个不同的字段搜索胶片。大多数字段还允许您从广泛的列表中进行选择。对于演员和工作人员领域,您可以从11种不同类型的工作中进行选择。记录还包括对期刊内容的参考,以允许学生扩展研究。

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