Magazine Collections
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)
Description
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, documents the rise of the Hollywood studios and transition to sound. The Film Daily includes feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films distinguishes it from other trade papers of the period. Scanned from the collection of Karl Thiede. Funded by David Sorochty and an anonymous donation in memory of Carolyn Hauer.
International Photographer (1929-1941)
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)
Description
The Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) documents the technological progress of the film industry, highlighting technical developments in production and exhibition. Of special interest are articles about special effects, theater practices, lighting, and the introduction of the 16mm format. Digitized by the Prelinger Library.
Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1950-1954)
Description
The SMPE added television in 1950, and the journal documented the introduction of technological marvels – Cinerama, 3-D and CinemaScope in theaters, and color television. Digitized by the Prelinger Library.
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.
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)
Description
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their into personal lives. The magazine played an important promotional function for the Hollywood industry, but its editors and reviewers could also be highly critical of Hollywood. Beginning in 1921, Photoplay bestowed its annual “Medal of Honor” for the film readers voted as the best of the year. Scanned from the collections of the PFA Library and Film Study Center and Karl Thiede. Funded by an anonymous donation in memory of Carolyn Hauer.
1915
Jan 1915. Vol 7, No. 2 | Read | Download | IA Page
Feb 1915. Vol 7, No. 3 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 1915. Vol 7, No. 4 | Read | Download | IA Page
Apr 1915. Vol 7, No. 5 | Read | Download | IA Page
May 1915. Vol 7, No. 6 | Read | Download | IA Page
Jun 1915. Vol 8, No. 1 | Read | Download | IA Page
Jul 1915. Vol 8, No. 2 | Read | Download | IA Page
Aug 1915. Vol 8, No. 3 | Read | Download | IA Page
Sep 1915. Vol 8, No. 4 | Read | Download | IA Page
Oct 1915. Vol 8, No. 5 | Read | Download | IA Page
Nov 1915. Vol 8, No. 6 | Read | Download | IA Page
Dec 1915. Vol 9, No. 1 | Read | Download | IA Page
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)
Educational Film Magazine (1920-1922)
Exhibitors Herald (1923-1924)
Exhibitors Trade Review (1921-1922)
Film Players Herald and Movie Pictorial (1916)
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)
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)
Movie Weekly (1922)
Movie Weekly Index | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 4, 1922. Vol 2, No. 4 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 18, 1922. Vol 2, No. 6 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 25, 1922. Vol 2, No. 7 | Read | Download | IA Page
Apr 1, 1922. Vol 2, No. 8 | Read | Download | IA Page
Apr 8, 1922. Vol 2, No. 9 | Read | Download | IA Page
Apr 15, 1922. Vol 2, No. 10 | Read | Download | IA Page
New Zealand Theatre & Motion Picture (1922)
Non-Theatrical Catalogs (1918-1956)
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
8mm (UK)
Kodascope Library, Complete Catalogue 8mm Kodascope Library of Motion Pictures. | Read | Download | IA Page
Pantomime (1922)
Jan 21, 1922. Vol 2, No. 3 | Read | Download | IA Page
Feb 18, 1922. Vol 2, No. 7 | Read | Download | IA Page
Feb 25, 1922. Vol 2, No. 8 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 11, 1922. Vol 2, No. 10 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 18, 1922. Vol 2, No. 11 | Read | Download | IA Page
Mar 25, 1922. Vol 2, No. 12 | Read | Download | IA Page
Apr 1, 1922. Vol 2, No. 13 | Read | Download | IA Page
The Photodramatist (1922)
Picture-Play Magazine (1922-1923)
Picture Stories Magazine (1913-1915)
See and Hear: The Journal on Audio-Visual Learning (1945-1953)
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)
