Just because the Internet is a network of computers connected by wires, that doesn't mean there isn't a strong human element present. The classic movie Web pages you'll find listed on this site have all been created by people... people who love movies.
The following pages contain listings for a group of those people. I have corresponded with all of them many times. Some have been doing this for years. I have watched others grow in knowledge and expertise, creating sites which did not exist when my experience with classic movies began. I hope this site had something to do with that. In any case, I thought it was time to introduce them to you. This is not a Hall of Fame, or an All-Star Team, by any means. More like a family album. In alphabetical order.
Elizabeth is a native of Oklahoma who began her site when she was a student at Princeton. She won our first Favorite Classic Movie Web Site competition with her very extensive site which includes tributes to to her favorite actors, actresses, directors, and films. It's called Reel Classics. Her father introduced her to classic movies. Parents of children who won't even consider watching a B&W film might want to ask him how he did it, but considering he has four daughters, he may not have time to answer!
Frank Bland is the Web's leading Marxist, and the opening page of his Web site is no less thorough than old Karl's manifesto. Everything is here on The Marx Brothers Web Site, and if it isn't, he'll probably find a way to get it for you! It all began in the summer of 1995, when Frank took a look on the Web for Marx Brothers info and found nothing. He taught himself html, put up a simple site after a weekend's work. It's been growing ever since, and has helped spawn a legion of other sites devoted to Groucho and the boys.
Tim Dirks found a dearth of film content on the Web in the early days of the Internet. He began putting his site together in June, 1996, using a personal collection of over 700 laserdiscs, a large film reference library, and advanced computer equipment. The result was The Greatest Films, a monumental achievement which is ongoing and has so many new sections that there isn't room to list them here. Once chosen by Roger Ebert as "The Greatest Greatest Site."
Hyde Flippo has created one of the most unique sites on the Web, The German-Hollywood Connection, which examines the strong influence of Germans on Hollywood. His latest page looks at the German connection to Casablanca. He's also got something on Leonardo DiCaprio (hush, girls!). He's also About.com's German Language Guide.
After collecting memorabilia from the silent era for 20 years, Donna Hill decided to share her collection by creating Falconlair, The Rudolph Valentino Homepage. Donna lives in San Francisco, where she onced worked in the Vitaphone theatre, a revival movie house.
