The Special Collections house tools for different subject areas and supplement our general services. For example, "From Page to Screen" correlates clips to precise text passages in the literary works from which they're adapted. "Coach's Corner" helps users find specific clips that illustrate key ideas, techniques, or rules in a wide array of sports. Let's take a look at some prototypes of these interfaces.

The Interactive Glossary of Cinema helps users identify filmmaking techniques—not content—in visual media. This innovative tool is designed to be equally valuable to elementary classes just beginning media production and to university professors looking for clips to screen. Click on "Interactive Glossary" to be brought to the main Glossary page.

The entries here represent a sampling of the entire glossary and show how FiiF works with content providers such as publishers and authors. To see how educators might use this page, navigate to "Reaction Shot." Note that the item is cross-linked both to another entry and to video clips from a partner (go ahead—click on the icon). Then click on "Touch of Evil" to find a relevant clip in a classic film.

Scroll down to the highlighted text "Reaction Shot." Now we have information about a precise clip that illustrates this concept, complete with timecodes and a brief description of the shot. If there were several reaction shots to choose from, they would all be highlighted this way. Finally, note how the entire film is annotated for this theme—one of many titles that FiiF has catalogued in this way. Click on the logo at the top of the page to return home.

This dynamic lesson-planning tool helps classes compare movies to the literature from which they're adapted. Teachers screening movies can find the perfect clips to discuss certain passages... or create annotations to leave for their colleagues. Click on "From Page to Screen" to see an abbreviated version of this resource.

For any given literary work, film titles are listed in order of utility so that teachers can instantly determine which provides the most faithful adaptation. Titles not in FiiF's database are in black while those that are too tangential to the source material appear in green-gray. Again, click on the logo to return to the home page.

This interactive tool allows educators to find visual media that bring specific historical periods and events to life. While perhaps most useful to history teachers, the Timebox can also help English classes access visualizations of the eras they're reading about, gather details for writing prompts, or stimulate ideas for research papers. It's even helpful to educators in cultural and cinema studies programs since the time periods when the movies were released are also a key component of the data. Click on the link to get started.

What's the difference between a conventional timeline and Find it in Film's Timebox? Here educators can compare how different time periods were depicted in different time periods. In fact, the "Contemporary Line" helps users find films that were made at roughly the same time as the content they cover. Hover above the data points to access specific film titles. To change your view of the types of visual media represented, click on the corresponding color-coded circles in the legend.

Use the controls for each axis to "zoom" in and out to explore different presentations of the data. Eventually you can zoom in to a display of 1928-1932 films that roughly cover the years 1915-1923. Still, some educators may require an even more granular view of a particular year. On the vertical axis continue to click "+" until you see the prompt for selecting the year 1918.

Here educators can browse through an entire year in film. They can even find films that depict the exact same day in history—a feature that provides them with options for choosing media to screen in class. Or they can use this page to select more than one film, so that students can compare and contrast, thus fostering a more critical viewing of the media. Please scroll down to "October" and click on All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). By doing this, we'll navigate to an annotation that provides more detail than the overview presented here.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how the theme of "Living History" has been newly applied to a movie that we explored in the Search Functions tour. This represents the way that Find it in Film is always growing, with new annotations constantly being added. Now a user interested in media that depicts the end of World War I is directed not only to a movie title, but also to a precise clip keyed to a specific month. That's the kind of resource that we at Find it in Film are striving to make available to all educators using the power of the moving image to inspire learning... Thanks for coming on this tour. Please e-mail us at principals@finditinfilm.com to let us know that you visited and to send any questions or comments. We look forward to hearing from you!

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