Trade journals provide information on the film studios, legal issues (including censorship), technological developments, exhibitor-related issues and the production and distribution of individual films. Since many films of the silent era are lost forever, plot summaries and reviews in publications like these are often the only remaining source of information about certain films.
This collection consists of 41 cinema magazines and trade journals that can be searched together or individually. Browse the entire list of titles
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews.
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Music, Radio and The Stage
Cinema, Film and Television, Part 1 & 2
Rock, Folk and Hip-hop
Video Gaming
American trade journals
A selection of journals listed in order of publication date. All titles held in Regenstein.
1921-present. Information about technical developments in cinematography and special features on individual films, interviews with cinematographers and more.
Film Daily
1922-1968. "The daily newspaper of motion pictures." On microfilm.
Microfilm. Other titles: Wid's year book, 1918-1921/22; Film year book, 1922/23-1927; Film daily ... year book, 1928-1929; The Film daily year book of motion pictures, 1930-1969.
Full text of five periodicals: El Cine Gráfico (1936 and 1957); Cine Mundial (1953-1955); Cinelandia (1931-1947); Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and El Mundo Ilustrado (1902; 1904-1908; 1910).
The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema is illuminated in this collection of popular movie periodicals. Not only does it include chief magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), it also features extremely rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910). The true extent of the popularity of Mexican film is illustrated by Cinelandia (1931-1947), which was published in Hollywood both in Spanish and in English. This collection also includes dozens of film flyers, which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema. Finally, for the first time this collection gives access to the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), one of the leading Latin-American filmmakers to this day. These volumes contain reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements, shedding a unique light on the career of this pioneering director.