Researcher Resources

The Moving Image Research Center has several research guides that provide assistance finding moving images on subjects such as women's suffrage, politics and public affairs, and television commercials. We also include search strategies for locating additional items in our vast collection.

Please note that the Moving Image Research Center is re-evaluating its web content by retiring older outdated guides and updating/reformatting more recent or heavily utilized guides to a new platform. The migration of guides to the new platform may take some time. However, you can access an archived version of our subject guides using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. As the newly migrated guides are published, links pointing to our older pages will be redirected to our new site.

  • Research Guides The Moving Image Research Center has several research guides that provide assistance finding moving images on subjects such as women's suffrage, politics and public affairs, and television commercials. We also include search strategies for locating additional items in our vast collection.
  • Finding Aids All of the Moving Image Section online finding aids are listed below. The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is one of several Library divisions participating in the effort to develop more fully navigable finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). One may search across encoded finding aids for all Library divisions or browse the union list of EAD finding aids from the Library's EAD Finding…
  • E-Resources & Databases The following e-resources and databases, often used by the Moving Image Research Center librarians, may be helpful in your research. Please note that while subscription databases are only accessible when connected to the Library’s free network, whether in the Moving Image Research Center or elsewhere on the Library of Congress campus, freely available online resources can be accessed from anywhere. Users are encouraged to…