Leisure movie watching can be viewed within the context of the ELIS literature. This review will also illustrate where gaps and differences occur in ELIS research and how this research relates to previous studies. It also provides a brief background on information seeking literature in order to illustrate how ELIS has become a distinct field of study. Within the ELIS literature, there are several areas of interest relevant to this research, including information seeking by role, the Internet, and the hobbyist context. Finally this literature review will look at relevant video related research.Roots of ELIS