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Welcome to the Magazine Collections of the Media History Digital Library. We have currently scanned over 250,000 pages and that number is quickly growing.


Our Extensive Runs — periodicals with digitized volumes spanning 5 years or more — are listed at the top. Our Select Holdings are listed below in alphabetical order. Click on the arrow next to a periodical to reveal the digitized years and volumes. You may choose to Read online, Download the PDF, or visit the Internet Archive page (IA Page), where you’ll find cataloging information and additional download options.

The Collections Gateway sidebar to the right will lead you to our Sub-Collections, groupings of material themed around the type of periodical or era.

We are currently developing an Advanced Search function that will allow you to perform customizable, aggregate searches across every page of text in our collections. In the meantime, you can read and search through individual volumes. Have fun browsing the stacks!

Extensive Runs

Business Screen (1938-1973)

The Film Daily (1918-1936)

International Photographer (1929-1941)

Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1950-1954)

The Educational Screen (1922-1962)

Moving Picture World (1912-1918)

    Description

      Moving Picture World was one of the most influential trade papers of the early motion picture industry and the period film historians call cinema’s “transitional era” (lasting roughly from 1908 to 1917). During this era and inside the paper, you can watch the transition from short film programs to feature films and witness the transition from the dominance of Edison’s Trust to the rise of the “Independent” film companies that ultimately became the Hollywood studios. Scanned from the collections of Eileen Bowser and Robert S. Birchard. Funded by Richard Scheckman and an Anonymous donation in memory of Carolyn Hauer.
    1912

    1913

    1914

    1915

    1916

    1917

      Jan-Mar 1917. Vol 31 | Coming Soon
      Apr-Jun 1917. Vol 32 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Jul-Sep 1917. Vol 33 | Coming Soon
      Oct-Dec 1917. Vol 34 | Coming Soon
    1918

      Jan-Mar 1918. Vol 35 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Apr-Jun 1918. Vol 36 | Coming Soon
      Jul-Sep 1918. Vol 37 | Coming Soon
      Oct-Dec 1918. Vol 38 | Coming Soon
Photoplay (1914-1940)

Radio Age: Research, Manufacturing, Communications, Broadcasting, Television (1942-1957)

    Description

      Radio Age was published by RCA – the Radio Corporation of America – to promote current and future technological developments and major programming events on NBC. Despite the title’s reference to radio, the emphasis throughout is on the future promise of television. Digitized by the Prelinger Library.

    Oct 1942-Jul 1945. Vol 2-4 | Read | Download | IA Page
    Oct 1945-Jul 1948. Vol 5-7 | Read | Download | IA Page
    Oct 1948-Jul 1950. Vol 8-9 | Read | Download | IA Page
    Oct 1950-Oct 1952. Vol 10-11 | Read | Download | IA Page
    Jan 1953-Oct 1954. Vol 12-13 | Read | Download | IA Page
    Jan 1955-Oct 1957. Vol 14-16 | Read | Download | IA Page

Radio Broadcast (1922-1930)

Select Holdings

Broadway Brevities (1921-1922)

Cap’n Joey’s Jazza-Ka-Jazza (1922)

Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang (1920-1922)

Cine-Mundial (1920)

Educational Film Magazine (1920-1922)

Exhibitors Herald (1923-1924)

Exhibitors Trade Review (1921-1922)

Filmplay (1922)

Film Fun (1922)

Film Players Herald and Movie Pictorial (1916)

Film Spectator (1928)

Film Truth (1920)

Gloom Book (1922)

Harrison’s Reports (1948)

Hollywood Reporter (1933-1934)

Hollywood Reporter Production Encyclopedia (1948-1952)

Home Movies & Home Talkies (1932-1934)

Hot Dog: Regular Fellows Monthly (1921-1922)

International Motion Picture Almanac (1938)

Jack Dinsmore’s Joy Book (1922)

Jim Jam Jems (1922)

Kinematograph Year Book (1931-1954)

Motion Picture Classic (1920)

Motion Picture Daily (1931-1934)

Motion Picture Magazine (1914)

Motion Picture News (1928-1930)

Motion Picture News Blue Book (1930)

Motion Picture News Booking Guide (1929)

Motion Picture Story Magazine (1912-1913)

Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual (1921)

Motography (1915)

Movie Makers (1929)

Movie Pictorial (1915)

Movie Weekly (1922)

New Zealand Theatre & Motion Picture (1922)

Non-Theatrical Catalogs (1918-1956)

    28mm (US)

    16mm (US)

      Catalogue of the National Film Library of Sixteen Millimeter Motion Pictures. 1931 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library 16mm Motion Pictures, Sixth Edition. 1936 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., Sound Films For Rental at the Eastman Kodak Stores Kodascope Libraries Division. 1942. Vol 9 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Films Incorporated, 16mm Sound-on-Film Motion Pictures. 1936 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Ideal Pictures Corporation, Catalogue Listing 35mm and 16mm Motion Pictures Silent and Sound-on-Film. | Read | Download | IA Page
      Kodascope Libraries, Inc., Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures. 1932. Vol 5 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Kodascope Libraries, Inc., Descriptive catalogue of Kodascope library motion pictures, classified for convenient reference. c.1925 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Kodascope Libraries, Inc., Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures. 1926. Vol 2 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Kodascope Libraries, Inc., Complete Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library of Motion Pictures 16mm. | Read | Download | IA Page
      Mogull’s Camera and Film Exchange, Inc., Catalog of 16mm Silent Motion Picture Film Library. 1940 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Mogull’s Camera and Film Exchange, Inc., Catalog of 16mm Silent Motion Picture Film Library. 1945. Vol E | Read | Download | IA Page
      Motion Picture Bureau – National Council YMCA, Selected Motion Pictures 16 and 35 Silent and Sound. 1936. Vol 23 | Read | Download | IA Page
      National Cinema Service presents the 1942-1943 Film Rental Library Catalog. 1942 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Pathe Exchange, Inc., Catalogue of Pathe´pictures Selected for Educational, Religious and Social Groups. 1925 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Walter O. Gutlohn, Inc. 16mm Sound Entertainment Films Catalog. Vol 9 | Read | Download | IA Page

    16mm (UK)

      Kodascope Library, Complete Catalogue 8mm Kodascope Library of Motion Pictures. | Read | Download | IA Page

    9.5mm (US)

      Pathex, Inc., Catalog of Pathex Motion Pictures for the Home. 1926 | Read | Download | IA Page
      Pathex, Inc., Catalog of Pathex Motion Pictures for the Home. 1927 | Read | Download | IA Page

    9.5mm (UK)

    8mm (UK)

      Kodascope Library, Complete Catalogue 8mm Kodascope Library of Motion Pictures. | Read | Download | IA Page

Pantomime (1922)

The Photodramatist (1922)

Picture-Play Magazine (1922-1923)

Picture Stories Magazine (1913-1915)

Screenland (1921-1923)

See and Hear: The Journal on Audio-Visual Learning (1945-1953)

Silverscreen (1922)

The Tatler (1919-1922)

Television Programming Catalogues (1957)

    Movies from A.A.P.: Programs of Quality from Quality Studios (1957) | Read | Download | IA Page
The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures (1923-1963)

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: The Motion Picture in Its Economic and Social Aspects (1926)

The Film Daily Presents the Product Guide and Director’s Annual (1937)

The Motion Picture Almanac (1929)

The Optical Lantern and Cinematograph Journal (1904-1905)

The World Film Encyclopedia (1933)

Who’s Who on the Screen (1920)

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