Musical Theater

Music

Theater

Films

Special Effects

Scripts & Monologues

For Mrs. Femovich's Radio Show

Special Effects

Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/
- Award Browser http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/
Anything Can Happen: All About Special Effects http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx/
Art and Science of Movie Special Effects http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/9472/sfx.htm
Character Shop http://www.character-shop.com/index.html
Cyber Film School http://www.cyberfilmschool.com/
FX Weekly http://users.rcn.com/fletcher.interport/fxweekly.html
How Stuff Works: Movies http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movies-channel.htm
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/question295.htm
How Blue Screens Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/blue-screen.htm
Lord of the Rings Official Site: Production http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_production.html
Matrix (production notes) http://www.howstuffworks.com/question295.htm
Matrix Reloaded http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2.html
Motion Picture Industry: Behind the Scences http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=10015&url=10015/
Pixar Animation Studio http://www.pixar.com/
Rhythm and Hues Studio http://www.rhythm.com/
Science Fiction Movies: Special Effects http://scifimovies.about.com/movies/scifimovies/cs/specialeffects/
Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/
Unofficial Industrial Light + Magic Website http://www.ilmfan.com/main/
Visual Effects HQ (1994-98) http://www.vfxhq.com/
Visual Effects Society http://www.vfxpro.com/
Visual Magic Magazine http://visualmagic.awn.com/
Yahoo: Special Effects http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Filmmaking/Special_Effects/

Also check our databases for reviews!

See also movie review portals:

Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/search (Click on external reviews)
Movie Review Query Engine http://www.mrqe.com/
New York Times Movie Reviews http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/
Online Film Critics' Society http://www.ofcs.org/
Critics.com http://www.critics.com/
MetaCritic http://www.metacritic.com/

Music

All Music Guide http://allmusic.com/
American Roots Music http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/
Art and Culture http://www.artandculture.com/
Battle Hymn of the Republic http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/battlehymn.htm
BMI Song Search http://bmi.com/home.asp
Essentials of Music http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Ethnomusicology: Folk Music and World Music http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html
Folk Music Home Page http://www.jg.org/folk/folkhome.html
Grove's Music.com http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html
History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html
Music History 102 (Western Composers--Middle Ages to present) http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/
Music of the War Between the States http://users.erols.com/kfraser/music/index.html
Television Production: A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext in Studio and Field Production http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp_ind.htm

Scripts and Monologues

For the sitcom project:

TwizTV Scripts http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/
Drew's Scripts-O-Rama http://www.script-o-rama.com/oldindex.shtml
TV Scripts http://www.simplyscripts.com/tv_all.html
Sitcoms Online http://www.sitcomsonline.com
Friends Scripts http://www.friendscafe.org/scripts.shtml
Complete Friends Script Index http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~shadelet/
Seinfeld Scripts http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/
Full House http://www.full-house.org/
Google Sitcoms http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Television/Programs/Comedy/Sitcoms/
Museum of Broadcast Communications: Comedies, Domestic Settings http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/comedydomes/comedydomes.htm
Like Television (streaming video) http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/search/comedy.php?q=Comedy&theme=guide
Classic TV Database http://www.classic-tv.com/

For the monologue project:
Please check the books of collected monologues in 791.43, 792, 808.8(2), 812, 822
You may also browse through books of favorite plays!

ActorPoint.com http://www.actorpoint.com/monologue.html
Anne's Page of Actor's Monologues http://members.aol.com/lockslett3/monol/monolg.html
Colin's Movie Monologue Page http://www.whysanity.net/monos/
Daily Script http://www.dailyscript.com/
Drew's Television Scripts http://www.script-o-rama.com/snazzy/dircut.html
Free Monologues for Actors http://www.caryn.com/acting/monologues.html
Girl's World of Theater http://www.geocities.com/foxfire321/Girls-World-of-Theater.html
Monologue Archive http://www.monologuearchive.com/
Monologues http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/2414/stuff/monologues.html
Monologues (ELAC Writers' Workshop) http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/workshop/monos.htm
Monologues from Plays http://www.geocities.com/foxfire321/monologues-from-plays.html
Movie Scripts Archive http://www.freemoviescripts.com/
Play Database http://www.playdatabase.com/
Scenes and Monologue for Actors http://www.caryn.com/acting/caryn-acting-scenes.html
Script Archive: Monologues http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/monologues.html
Shakespeare's Monologues http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/
Simply Scripts http://www.simplyscripts.com/
Women's Monologues in Shakespeare http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/womenindex.shtml

Music

8 Notes http://www.8notes.com/
All Music Guide http://allmusic.com
America's Jazz Heritage http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/
Andante http://www.andante.com/
A-Z Disco http://www.geocities.com/discoaz/
B.P.'s Homepage http://members.aol.com/bpsprtfan/bpbdwy.htm
Becky's Campfire Songbook http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/8851/
Cadenza http://www.cadenza.org
Children's Songs http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html
Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) http://cpdl.snaptel.com/
Classical Composers' Archive http://spight.physics.unlv.edu/picgalr2.html
Classical Music Navigator http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm
Classical Music http://classicol.com/
Classical Music Pages http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
Classical Source http://www.classicalsource.com
Classical.net http://www.classical.net
Composer Biographies http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html
Composers Bureau Online http://www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/composer.html
County Music Search Engine http://country-music-club.com/
DownBeat.com http://www.downbeat.com/
DW3 Classical Music Resources http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html
Early Music Women Composers Webring http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/webring.html
8notes.com (free sheet music and lessons) http://www.8notes.com/default.asp
emplive.com http://www.emplive.com/
Essentials of Music http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Evolution of Rap Music in the United States http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.04.x.html
Experience Music Project Live http://www.emplive.com/
Film Score Monthly http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/
Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/
Free Scores on the Web http://sheet-music.terrashare.com/
Global Music Network http://www.gmn.com
Gramophone: The World's Best Classical Music Magazine http://www.gramophone.co.uk/home/
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
Guitar Notes http://www.guitarnotes.com/
History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html
It's a Girl Thang! - Women in the Blues http://p-dub.com/thang
Introduction to Reading Music http://datadragon.com/education/html/intro.shtml
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Jazz/Blues Archives, Collections & Museums http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jazzarch.html
Land of Music http://www.landofmusic.com/
Legacy Links - The Sixties Rock and Roll Index http://www.legacylinks.com/contents.html
Lyrics-ch http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
LyricsSearch.net http://lyricsearch.net/
Lyrics World http://www.lyricsworld.com
MHN Instrument Encyclopedia http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia1.html
Museum of Musical Inventions http://www.op97.k12.il.us/schools/longfellow/lrexford/base/
MoMI.org: The Museum of Musical Instruments http://www.themomi.org/museum/
Music and Noise http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/edis/590s4/Huffman/Table_of_Contents.html
Music Fans http://www.musicfans.com/
Music Learning Zone http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/flearning.files/blearning.htm
Music Magic http://hyperion.advanced.org/15060/
Musical Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1336/
Musical Instrument Encyclopedia http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/
Musicals.Net http://musicals.net
Muze http://www.muze.com/
Opera-Hater's Guide to Opera http://www.wrkf.org/opera_hater_1.htm
120 Years of Electronic Music -http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
Popular Songs and American History http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Record Labels on the Web http://www.rlabels.com/
Rhythmweb - World Percussion and World Rhythms http://www.rhythmweb.com/
Singer-Songwriter Directory http://singer-songwriter.com/
SongFile http://songfile.com
Sounds of the orchestra http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5116/
Symphony: An Interactive Guide http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/index.html
Ultimate Band Page http://ubl.com
Women Composers http://www.interlog.com/~hartl/Kapralova/DATABASE.htm
Womanrock.com http://www.womanrock.com/
World's Favorite Radio Station Real Audio Music http://jimhartley.com/menu.html

Theater

Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com/
ASCAP http://www.ascap.com:80/ascap.html
Broadway.com http://www.broadway.com/
Curtain Up! http://www.ascap.com:80/ascap.html
History of Theatre http://ebicom.net/~tct/oftheatre.htm
Playbill Online http://www1.playbill.com/playbill/
Tony Awards Online http://www.tonys.org
Great MGM Musicals http://hometown.aol.com/mgmfanatic/index.html
Music and Drama Teachers Resources Music and Drama Teachers' Resources http://www.li.net/~ndonohue/music.html
Musical Cast Album Database http://eur.com/musicals/
Better Living Through Show Tunes http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/2685/
Musical Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1336/
*Musicals.Net http://musicals.net
Musical Theatre International http://www.mtishows.com/
On Broadway http://www.on-broadway.com/
Opera Glass http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/main.html
Operissimo http://www.operissimo.com/
Theatre History on the Web http://www.artsci.washington.edu/drama/jack.html
Theatricopia http://www.saintmarys.edu/~jhobgood/Jill/theatre.html

Films and Television (see also Media Literacy)

*University of Albany Films http://library.albany.edu/reference/films.html
Academy Awards at LittleGoldenGuy.com http://www.littlegoldenguy.com/home.asp
AdCritic.com http://www.adcritic.com/
AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs http://www.afionline.org/100laughs/
America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies http://www.afionline.org/100thrills/
Box Office Guru http://www.boxofficeguru.com/
Chico High School: Film Study and Appreciation http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/film.html
Cinema Sites http://www.cinema-sites.com/
Cinemachine: Movie Review Search Engine http://www.cinemachine.com/
CinemaSpot http://www.cinemaspot.com/
Classic Movies http://classicfilm.miningco.com
Definitive Online Film Resource http://www.tdfilm.com/
Digital Film Festival http://www.dfilm.com/
earlycinema.com http://www.earlycinema.com/
Film.com http://www.film.com
Film History by the Decade http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html
*Filmsite.org http://www.filmsite.org
Glossary of Film Terms http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/
Great MGM Musicals http://hometown.aol.com/mgmfanatic/index.html
History of Film Theme Page http://www.cln.org/themes/history_film.html
**Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/search
*MetaCritic.com http://www.metacritic.com/
MovieFlix.com (clips) http://www.movieflix.com/
Motion Picture Database http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/cgi-bin
Motion Picture Industry: Behind the Scenes http://library.advanced.org/10015/
Movie Collection: Internet Moving Images Archive http://www.archive.org/movies/
*Movie Review Query Engine http://www.mrqe.com/
Movies.com -- Fact City http://movies.factcity.net/factcity/factcity
MovieSite History http://www.moviesite.net/history/index.html
Mr. Showbiz Movie Index http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/
Movie Web http://movieweb.com/
99Lives: The Video Magazine http://www.99lives.com
Online Film Critics' Society http://www.ofcs.org/
Origins of American Animation http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html
Oscars: Academy Awards http://www.oscars.org/
Reel.com http://www.reel.com/
Roger Ebert on Movies http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/
Silent Era http://www.silentera.com/
Silent Film Sources http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/
TV Acres http://www.tvacres.com/
Time of Innocence Classic Films Page http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9473/
Toon Tracker - Finder of Lost Toons! http://www.toontracker.com/
Toonopedia http://www.toonopedia.com/
Turner Classic Movies http://TCM.turner.com/
TVParty http://www.tvparty.com/
Yahoo: Movie Reviews http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Reviews/

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