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Go to the DOCUMENT SEARCH screen to search for documents by title, author, date or publisher, or for documents about specific films, people, or subjects.

Go to the FILMOGRAPHIC SEARCH screen to search for films by title, subject, genre, director, year, country, or studio. Your search will retrieve film title records, from which you can link to related documents.

Go to the SEARCH TIPS screen for detailed instructions on using the search forms.

COPYRIGHT RESOURCES PROJECT web site for information on working with copyright-protected materials in a digital environment.

CineFiles is a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the PFA Library's collection. The collection contains documents from a broad range of sources covering world cinema, past and present. CineFiles currently includes materials on the films of over 145 directors whose works have been featured in PFA's exhibition program. Materials on additional directors' works are added regularly. The database also contains retrospective indexing of film titles beginning with "A" and of files describing Soviet silent films from PFA's collection. Brief authority records, including title, director, country, and year, are also currently available for over 25,000 films. When retrospective indexing is complete, the CineFiles database will hold over 200,000 documents. New titles and document images are added daily.

Documents are indexed and retrievable from numerous access points. Full citations are available for all documents, and page images are available for documents with copyright clearance. We will continually increase the number of document images available online as negotiations with copyright holders progress. Please contact the PFA Library at cinefiles@uclink.berkeley.edu for information about access to restricted documents.

Although the range of documents currently available is limited, you can explore some of the database's capabilities by trying a sample search.

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UC Berkeley's Museum Informatics Project provides database design, database management support and software maintenance for CineFiles.

This project is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian; and the Packard Humanities Institute, as well as by individual donors.