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Excitement at Treasure Hunt Towers is at fever pitch because it’s Oscar weekend. Frocks have been dry-cleaned, speeches prepared and tissues bought in bulk. And let us not forget that not only are these the most famous awards in the world (because who really cares about the Nobel Prize?) but they were named by a librarian. Take a bow, Margaret Herrick Anyway it seems appropriate to have a look at a couple of the cinematic offerings to be found on the Gateway – Check out the link for Stage and Screen
The king of all sites cinematic is The Internet Movie Database – your first point of call for any film or tv programmes credits. It’s an enormously powerful database and if you use the Advanced Search features (click on the drop down search box at the top) you can do complex searches for Titles (ever wondered if any Carry On films were shot in Marylebone – wonder no longer, part of Carry On Girls was) or names (did any stars of The Italian Job come from Maida Vale? Why yes, the great Irene Handl did)
We at Treasure Hunt Towers are great fans of British films, the more black and white the better so a favourite site here is Screenonline, produced by the British Film Institute. It’s packed full of articles about genres (B movies, public individual films, animation and so on) as well as information about television programmes and individual actors and directors. And if you use it in a Westminster library, you can access thousands of clips and even whole films and programmes (spend your lunch-hour comparing the first episode of Coronation Street with the first episode of Brookside)