Early Cinema History Online
Early Cinema History Online (ECHO) is a database of very early silent-era film titles.[1]
ECHO (Early Cinema History Online) is hosted by the Department of Communication Arts at the
The searchable online database format allows for trend searches and pattern matching.[1] For example, "Databases can also help us to validate, refute or differentiate hypothesis. The online platform (ECHO), for instance, provides further evidence that at the beginning of the 20th century, a relatively large number of women in the US-American film industry had worked as scriptwriters. In order to come to this conclusion or rather to affirm existing research, media historian Derek Long, who created this filmographic database, compared the credits of 35,000 films which appeared in the US from 1908 to 1920 to the female names gathered in the Women Film Pioneers Project."[8]
Users are encouraged to submit corrections or additions, including additional datasets.[9]
References
- ^ S2CID 193575392. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ "Derek Long". College of Media. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- ^ Long, Derek Ronald. "Research Program: Media History, at Scale". Derek Long official website. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ISBN 978-91-7410-001-3.
- ^ "About". Early Cinema History Online. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ISBN 9780786402557. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- JSTOR 1225829. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ISSN 1938-4122.
- ^ "How to Contribute Data to ECHO · ECHO (Early Cinema History Online)". echo.commarts.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
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