Movie Sources and Resources

Some sources consulted for this section:

  • CinemaTreasures: website (catalog of historic movie theaters)

  • Time magazine archives

  • Answers.com

  • nytimes.com for All-Movie Guide

  • The New Yorker

  • Broadway: It's History, People and Places, Ken Bloom

  • Variety

  • Photoplay

  • The American Film Industry, Tino Balio,

  • The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, Anthony Slide

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1946/1947

  • The Radio City Music Hall, Charles Francisco

  • America Goes to the Movies: 100 Years of Motion Picture Exhibition, Barbara Stones

  • A History of Film, Jack Ellis

  • Merely Colossal: The Story of the Movies From the Long Chase to the Chaise Longue, Arthur Mayer

  • Film Writing and Selected Journalism, James Agee, Library of America

  • Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s, Volume 6, The History of the American Cinema, Thomas Schatz

  • Great Fortune, The Epic of Rockefeller Center, David Okrent

  • imdb.com

  • Wikipedia

  • Animation World Magazine

  • "Why did the horror movie factories shut down after World War II?" Ron Miller, TheColumnists.com