AustLit

On its website, the AFI Research Collection (located in the main Melbourne city campus of RMIT) describes itself as

'a specialist film and television industry resource open to the public. The Collection has materials encompassing cinema and television from the world over (with particular strengths in screen theory and history and in Australian cinema). The collection features a diverse range of newspaper clippings files, books, journals, film and television scripts, directories, reports, film promotional material, and film festival catalogues.'

The primary AFIRC contains film and media books, journals, media clippings, film scripts, film directories, reports and film festival catalogues.

In addition to this, the AFIRC also contains significant sub-collections, including:

The Henry Mayer Collection: a broad range of communications literature (policy documents, books and journals, relevant to research in the history and theory of television, radio, advertising, and communication design) dating from as early as 1924.

The Crawford Collection: a collection of scripts, research material, and ancillary materials relating to Crawford Productions radio and television production, from the 1940s to 2006.

As well as its own collections, the AFIRC is responsible for a number of research initiatives, including BONZA - National Cinema & Television Database (an online collection of national cinema databases) and A History of Women in Motion (an online history of WIFT [Women in Film and Television]): both of these resources are available through the links below.

The AFIRC Research Fellowship enables independent scholarly research in the AFIRC archives.

The AFIRC is open to the general public, as well as to specialist scholars.

Source: AFI Research Collection website (http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au). (Sighted: 13/2/2013)