This section will evolve to include many film and Hollywood history web sites, silent era sites, Hollywood cemeteries, etc.

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences: Margaret Herrick Library <Oscars.org/mhl> -
  web site excerpts: "supported through the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Although privately funded, the library is open to the public. One of the world's most extensive and comprehensive research collections on the subject of motion pictures......."
  
  
• Cinema Tour <CinemaTour.com> - "cinema history around the world" This web site is a great resource to look into old theaters everywhere.
  web site excerpts: "The mission of CinemaTour is to thoroughly research and document the locations and histories of cinemas throughout the world....."
  
  
• Early Cinema <EarlyCinema.com> -
  web site excerpts: "an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the developments which helped shape cinema as we know it today."
  
  
• Edison Birthplace Museum <TomEdison.org> - Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.and later did most of his inventing at his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He essentially invented the kinetoscope, kinetograph and kinetophone and had much to do with the start of America's film industry including involvement in creation of the 1903 film the Great Train Robbery filmed in New Jersey.
  
  
• The Father of Hollywood <TheFatherOfHollywood.com> - A book on Hollywood patriarch Hobart Johnstone Whitley and wife Gigi Whitley written by great granddaughter Gaelyn Whitley Keith
  Editor's note: The Hollywood Vine is honored that our first ever link request (above) came as an email from "Gigi" at TheFatherOfHollywood.com (2007Se06). Prior to this, we had tons of links but had gathered them only by direct research.
  EDIT NOTE: Must go through their "Media Room" link collection.
  
  
• Find a Grave <FindAGrave.com> - This has long been a preeminent web site devoted to tracking the locations of dead folks of any reknown from writers to film stars buried anywhere on the planet including tons of life alumni resting in Hollywood cemeteries. Has searchable database allowing name searches and searches of specific cemeteries, etc.
  
  
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park <ForestLawn.com> - The final resting place of many Hollywood stars.
  
  
• Golden Silents <GoldenSilents.com> - (details later)
  EDIT NOTE: Must go through their link collection (from page two).
  
  
• The History of the Discovery of Cinematography <PreCinemaHistory.net> - (details later)
  
  
• Hollywood Entertainment Museum <HollywoodMuseum.com> -
  web site excerpts: "The 33,000 square foot museum features technologically advanced, interactive exhibits, memorabilia, special exhibitions, a six-minute multi-screen video presentation and a studio backlot tour. The experience culminates in a visit to the original sets of Star Trek, The X-Files and Cheers. Designed to educate and entertain, a variety of programs and tailor-made tours are available to groups and individual visitors.
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  contact Hollywood Entertainment Museum, 7021 Hollywood Boulevard (West of Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
  
  
• Hollywood Forever Cemetery <HollywoodForever.com> - said to be the oldest burial park in Los Angeles, it has many famous remains.
  • Hollywood Forever Historic Walking Tour <CemeteryTour.com> -
  • La Day of the Dead <LaDayOfTheDead.com> - an annual Hollywood death celebration event connected to Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The web site is way cool.
  • Hollywood Forever Historic Walking Tour <CemeteryTour.com> -
    
    
• Hollywood Heritage <HollywoodHeritage.org> -
  web site excerpts: "...dedicated to preserving Hollywood's past. Hollywood Heritage takes an active role in issues involving the historic structures along the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment National Register District as well as other structures in Hollywood"
  
  
• The Hollywood Museum <TheHollywoodMuseum.com> -
  mission excerpts: "....a nonprofit, tax exempt museum with the purpose of documenting, preserving and exhibiting the artifacts of the collections, which preserve the history and heritage of Hollywood. The Hollywood Museum is dedicated to entertaining and educating the public about the art, history, techniques, and technology of the entertainment industry and its worldwide cultural effects. "
  1660 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028
  
  
• Hollywood Photographs (See "Torrance")
  
  
• Hollywood Remains to Be Seen <CemeteryGuide.com> - Mark Masek's site promotes his book (of same name) about the final resting place of many celebrities. The photos showing Mark mugging with a handful of celebrities make him look a bit like a star-crazed fan. Nonetheless, the web site has lots of free data on the local dead. Now you can go to their graves and bug them when they try to finally R.I.P.
  
  
• Hollywood Sign Trust <HollywoodSign.org> - lots of great info & pics about the sign and early Hollywood
  web site excerpts: "The Hollywood Sign Trust is formed with the express purposes of repairing, maintaining, refurbishing, and providing capital improvements to the Hollywood Sign or related thereto for the benefit of the public at large and so as to help, preserve and maintain the image of Hollywood as the worldwide center of motion picture and cinema arts."
  
  
• Hollywood Wax Museum <HollywoodWax.com> -
  contact: Hollywood Wax Museum, 6767 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
  (323) 462-8860
  
  
• Institut Lumiere <Institut-Lumiere.org> - (This site is in French and English)
  web site excerpts: "Since 1982, the Institut Lumière has had its home in the heart of Monplaisir, that historical area of Lyon where the Lumière brothers invented the cinématographe and where, in 1895, they shot the first film in the history of the cinema : "Sortie d'Usine". Concurrently, a place of reminiscence and a film theater, the Institut is a genuine living museum of the cinema. Films are screened, directors are invited, exhibitions are organized, young viewers are educated within these walls.
  Its double vocation embodies heritage conservation – films, books, photos, posters, pre-cinematographic and cinematographic equipment – and publicity-related artistic activities – film screenings, exhibitions, publication, education and training"
  
  
• La Day of the Dead (See Hollywood Forever Cemetery.)
  
  
• The Picture Showman <PictureShowman.com> - (details later)
  
  
• Silent Era <SilentEra.com> - (details later)
  
  
• The Silent Film Still Archive <SilentFilmStillArchive.com> -
  web site excerpts: "....find original photos, advertising, and other memorabilia from silent films. (We've thrown in a few early sound films also, especially if they feature silent film performers.)"
  EDIT NOTE: Must go through their link collection.
  
  
• Silent Ladies & Gents <SilentLadies.com> - (details later)
  
  
• Silent Movies on DVD <Silent-DVD.net> - Site provides info on silent films and appears to be noncommercial. It has search capability.
  
  
• Silents are Golden <SilentsAreGolden.com> - Loaded site full of great info and tons of vintage film star pics although the navagation and links could use a brush up.
  
  
• The Bruce Torrance Hollywood Photograph Collection <HollywoodPhotographs.com> - fabulous online collection has thousands of Hollywood pictures. Claims to be "the largest photographic and reference collection on the subject of Hollywood."
  web site excerpts: "The collection contains thousands of photographs which date from 1880 to 1987....... Bruce Torrence began his collection in 1972 with about thirty photographs. During the following twenty-five years, Bruce amassed thousands of photographs, along with hundreds of books, periodicals, brochures, pamphlets and memorabilia of Hollywood. In 1979, Bruce's book, Hollywood: The First 100 Years, was published."

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