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Encyclopedia of Television	Encyclopaedic treatment of networks, programs, people, historic moments, trends and major policy disputes related to television.
Internet Movie Database	Find information (cast, dates, trivia) on television shows & movies.

Canadian Comic Books	Superhero comic books from the National Archives and National Library of Canada.
Crime Fiction Canada	Searchable databases of materials related to the study of detective fiction in English, in Canada and around the world.
George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection (U. of Buffalo)	The George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection is comprised of well over 25,000 pulp-fiction books and magazines. The earliest date from the 1940s. Detective and mystery stories make up the largest part of the Collection, followed by science fiction paperbacks and magazines.

Data on Canadian Culture Industries

Data provided by Statistics Canada.

50 Years of Coca Cola Television Advertisements	Television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for Coca Cola.
A Day in Radio	Audio clips of a whole day of radio broadcasting in the 1930s.
Ad Council	A repository of American public service advertisements from 1942-present, including Smokey the Bear's "Only you can prevent forest fires" and Rosie the Riveter.
AD* Access	7000 advertisements printed in Canadian and U.S. newspapers between 1911 and 1955. Five main areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
AdFlip: Classic Print Ads	Searchable database of classic print ads from 1940-2001.
American Social Hygiene Posters, 1910-1970	A collection of social hygiene posters (designed to inculcate certain social practices regarding hygiene, friendship, prostitution, and mental health) produced in the United States.
CBC Archives	Historical video and radio clips from the CBC.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920	9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
England on Film	Film footage of the social and cultural history of the North East and Cumbria.
Horatio Alger Jr. Resources	A list of online resources regarding Horatio Alger Jr., a figure who cast a giant shadow in the world of dime novels, and who is best known for his series of tomes that celebrated the rags to riches mythos.
Images Canada	Still images of Canadian events, people, places and things.
Internet Archive	A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Lileks	Contains items from 20th century popular culture, such as old comics and ads.
Radio Days: Radio Broadcast History in Sound and Words	Source for the history of nostalgic and old time radio series and news!
Sunday School Books	163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865.
Using Primary Sources on the Web	A guide to using and evaluating the quality of primary source materials that can be found on the web.

Footage.net: The Stock, Archival and News Footage Network
Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)

All Movie Guide	Searchable database of information films and people, both current and historic.
Ebert and Roeper	Current reviews and five year searchable database.
Great Canadian Guide to the Movies (and TV)	Listings and reviews of Canadian made films and TV series.
Internet Movie Database	Huge database of movie news and reviews.
Movie Review Query Engine	325,000 searchable online movie reviews.

AdFlip: Classic Print Ads	Searchable database of classic print ads from 1940-2001.
Culture Machine	Research in culture and theory.
epguides	Episode lists for over 2000 TV shows.
From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics?	Online exhibit of the history of home economics.
Lileks	Contains items from 20th century popular culture, such as old comics and ads.
MediaStudies.com	Links to international news, media studies sites, and other resources for media educators, students, and researchers.
Popular Culture Library (Bowling Green State University)	Resources documenting popular culture on the World Wide Web.
Popular Culture Resources (University of Iowa)	Links to resources on film, popular culture and more.
Theory.org.uk	Focuses on popular culture and social theory.

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
Television Bureau of Canada