Collection of Motion Picture Stills

Search Help

• Its recommended that you search by film title as release company information may be unavailable or recorded in an abbreviated form.
• All results are sorted by film title.
• You may enter a single word or phrase.
• To search for non-adjacent words in a title, use the "%" wildcard between the terms (e.g., GONE % WIND).
• Searches are not case-sensitive.
• Boolean searching is not supported.
• Title searches have an automatic left and right truncation, so a single word search will produce results with that term anywhere within the field, including within a word (e.g., RAIN will return RAIN, RAINING, BRAIN, GRAIN, TRAIN,etc.).
• Release Company searches have an automatic left and right truncation, so a single word search will produce results with that term anywhere within the field, including within a word (e.g., PICTURES will return TRISTAR PICTURES, BUENA VISTA PICTURES, MAGNA PICTURES, etc.).

Wildcards

• _ (underscore) replaces any single alphanumeric character.
  Example: a search for "T_N" will retrieve TIN, TAN, TEN, TON, etc.
• % (percent) replaces any number of characters in the search term or phrase.
  Example: searching for "RAIN%" using the title index will retrieve all titles containing the search term, even if it is within a word (e.g., RAIN, RAINING, RAINED, RAINS, etc.)
  Example: searching for "GONE % WIND" using the title index will return GONE WITH THE WIND.

About the Indexes

Title: Searches the Title field using left and right truncation to find the occurrence of the search term anywhere within the field, including within words.

Release Company: Searches the Release Company field using left and right truncation to find the occurrence of the search term anywhere within the field, including within words.

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