Personal Learning Environment

Turning a New Leaf:
http://www.filmbug.com/dictionary/moviehistory.php - I found this site to be very helpful because it went through each decade and pointed out who the great producers were as well as what changes were occurring during that time period.
http://www.filmsite.org/60sintro.html - What was interesting about this site was that not only did it go through the changes in films, but gave a list of what the popular films were in the '60's, a little specific, but the information was very good.
I found the images and information about "The Graduate" from Google, through IMDB.com, which that site is really informative about who was in the films, who were the composers were, lots of information about the films themselves.
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/editing.htm - Although this is a lecture from a class at Yale it was very informative about all different editing styles, not just Jump-Cuts.

Does International Film Influence American Film?:
http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro.html - I found this site to be very helpful in providing information about what and how films were produced before the "talkie" age.
http://www.holonet.khm.de/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html - This was very informative about the Lumiere Brothers and what they produced through their time of making film.
I found that Youtube was very helpful in providing movies and shorts, the only problem that I ran into was that when I would look up a movie on Youtube it would not necessarily show up in the list of movies for the same search in Blogger, other than that was a great tool to use.

The Difference Between Silent Films and Sounded Films, As Pertaining to Women:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/hollywood_history.cfm - I found this site to be very helpful with information about the back lash of including women in films and giving them bigger roles.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html - This site was really good for the information pertaining to Women's Rights and a timeline for every event.
I found that IMDB was really helpful (again) with providing information about "The General" and "Singing in the Rain."

Prescott Film Festival:
For this I used brochures as well as spending a day looking at the films.  I also snuck in for the wine tasting (it was held at my work) and mingled with some of the people there, unfortunately I wasn't able to spend a lot of time there due to my boss cracking the whip.