Media History Digital Library
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
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United Artists Corporate Minutes [Jan-Dec 1946]
United Artists Corporate Minutes [Jan-Dec 1945]
United Artists Corporate Minutes [Jan-Dec 1941]
United Artists Corporate Minutes [Jan-Dec 1934]
United Artists Corporate Minutes [Jan-Dec 1921]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [May 28, 1955]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Dec 10, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Dec 3, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Nov 26, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Nov 19, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Nov 12, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Nov 5, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 29, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 22, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 15, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 8, 1949]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Dec 25, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 26, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 19, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 12, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Oct 5, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Sep 28, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Sep 21, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Sep 14, 1929]
Canadian Moving Picture Digest [Sep 7, 1929]
Lantern is the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library. Enter a search term below to begin exploring the 3,069,872 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
If you would like to search the
titles
of the publications within the MHDL, you can use the
Publication Search
instead.
Global Movie Magazine Networks
Read about the intercontinental exchange of cinema ideas and information in
Global Movie Magazine Networks
, a collection of essays edited by Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway. Vital resources for the study of film history and culture, movie magazines are frequently cited as sources, but rarely centered as objects of study. The essays in this collection reveal the hybridity, heterogeneity, and connectivity of movie magazines and the important role they play in the intercontinental exchange of information and ideas about cinema.
The Media History Digital Library contains magazines from around the world:
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Iran
, and
beyond
. The magazines included in
Global Movie Magazine Networks
are freely available online and searchable in
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A free ebook version of this title is available through
Luminos
, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program.
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Ink-Stained Hollywood
Learn about the history of Hollywood trade papers in Eric Hoyt's new book. Available in paperback or free digital edition from University of California Press.
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Teaching with the MHDL
Over the past several years, film and media educators have used the Media History Digital Library in highly innovative and effective ways, crafting creative and challenging assignments that go beyond what we could have hoped for when we first developed this project.
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