Over 1,500 stock photographs on compact disc and indexed by subject. Radio, Television, Theatre, and Film This collection encompasses biographies, production techniques and direction, and histories. Subject strengths include American and general theater history, screenplays, the American film industry, and biographies of actors and actresses. Periodicals and Annual Publications Over 2,200 periodicals and annuals, current and retrospective, cover and supplement the subjects of the book collections. Complete runs of many core titles are included, a number of which are available in their original hardbound format.
Some back issues are available on microfilm only.
Artists and Paintings Index Significant visual arts books owned by the Art Information Center have been indexed by artist and by painting title. The artists and works covered number in the thousands, making this source extremely valuable to the arts researcher. The collection includes stock dance band arrangement, orchestrations of popular classics, orchestrated music for silent films, and sheet music. Complementing this are two thousand arrangements for jazz orchestras and combos of popular music used in the 1950s and 1960s, when WGN maintained a live studio orchestra. Most of the arrangements are in manuscript.