USA
Silent film journals available online.
- Broadway Brevities
Years: 1921-1922
Number: 2 issues
Description: Fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Cap’n Joey’s Jazza-Ka-Jazza
Years: 1922
Number: 2 issues
Description: Fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Capt. Billy’s Whizz Bang
Years: 1920-1922
Number: 15 issues
Description: Humour magazine with film gossip
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Cinema Chat
Years: 1919-1920
Number: 74 issues
Description: Fan magazine
Available from: Margaret Herrick Library
Format: PDF
More information: Margaret Herrick Library - Dramatic Mirror
Years: 1922
Number: 1 monthly issue
Description: Theatre and film gossip
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Film Daily
Years: 1922-1929
Number: 2,400 issues (22,000 pages)
Description: Film industry magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Bioscope report - Film Fun
Years: 1922
Number: 1 issue
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Filmplay
Years: 1922
Number: 2 issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Film Players Herald and Movie Pictorial
Years: 1916
Number: 1 issue
Description: Film journal
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Film Truth
Years: 1920
Number: 1 issue
Description: Film opinion and gossip
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Gloom Book
Years: 1922
Number: 1 issue
Description: Humourous publication
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Hot Dog: Regular Fellows Monthly
Years: 1922
Number: 3 issues
Description: Humourous publication
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Jack Dinsmore’s Joy Book
Years: 1922
Number: 1 issue
Description: Humourous publication
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Jim Jam Jems
Years: 1922
Number: 1 issue
Description: Humourous publication
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Years: 1930-62
Number: 32 annual volumes (plus synopses of papers 1916-1930)
Available from: Internet Archive
Description: Film technicians’ journal with many key papers on motion picture technology
Format: PDF, DjVU and TXT
More information: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Bioscope report - Motion Picture Magazine
Years: 1914
Number: 2 monthy editions
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Motion Picture News
Years: 1919
Number: vols. 20-24
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Google Book Search (US readers only)
Format:
More information: Taylorology - Motion Picture Story Magazine
Years: 1911-13
Number: 2 volumes and 2 issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Hathi Trust and Internet Archive (and here)
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Motion Picture Times
Years: 1928
Number: 22 weekly issues
Description: American film exhibitors’ journal, precursor of Boxoffice
Available from: Boxoffice
Format: PDF
More information: Boxoffice - Movie Age
Years: 1929
Number: Weekly issues
Description: American film exhibitors’ journal, precursor of Boxoffice
Available from: Boxoffice
Format: PDF
More information: Boxoffice - Movie Monthly
Years: 1925
Number: 3 issues
Description: Fan magazine
Available from: Margaret Herrick Library
Format: PDF
More information: Margaret Herrick Library - Movie Pictorial
Years: 1915
Number: 1 issue
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Movie Weekly
Years: 1922
Number: 6 issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Moving Picture World
Years: 1907-June 1919
Number: 70,000 pages
Description: The leading American film trade journal of the early cinema period
Available from: Media History Digital Library
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Media History Digital Library - Pantomime
Years: 1922
Number: 8 issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - The Photodramatist
Years: 1922
Number: 3 monthly issues
Description: Magazine for screenwriters
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Photoplay
Years: 1914, 1915-16, 1925-30
Number: 2 single issues from 1914, 15 single issues from 1915-16, and 8 volumes, each covering six months of the weekly journal 1925-30
Description: The great American film fan magazine of the silent era
Available from: Internet Archive.
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Wikipedia, Bioscope report and Taylorology
Note: There are five volumes of Photoplay (1915, 1916, 1917 (1), 1917 (2), 1920) available to US readers only through Google Book Search - The Photoplayers Weekly
Years: 1914-1916
Number: Monthly issues (Dec 1914 – Aug 1916)
Description: Film trade journal
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Picture-Play
Years: 1922-23
Number: 12 monthly issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Picture Stories Magazine
Years: 1913-15
Number: 2 six-monthly volumes
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - The Reel Journal
Years: 1924-26
Number: 3 annual volumes of weekly journal (on Internet Archive); two years of individual issues (Box Office)
Description: American film exhibitors’ journal, precursor of Boxoffice
Available from: Internet Archive and Boxoffice
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Boxoffice - Screenland
Years: 1921-23
Number: 5 monthly issues
Description: Film fan magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Silverscreen
Years: 1922
Number: 1 issue
Description: Cinema lobby magazine
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Silver Sheet
Years: 1920-1925
Number: 18 issues
Description: House organ for Thomas H. Ince productions
Available from: Margaret Herrick Library
Format: PDF
More information: Margaret Herrick Library - The Tatler
Years: 1919-1922
Number: 16 monthly issues
Description: Humour and gossip
Available from: Internet Archive
Format: PDF, DjVU, TXT
More information: Taylorology - Variety
Years: 1914-present day
Number: Reviews only, selection from each year
Description: Venerable American entertainment trade magazine
Available from: Variety
Format: PDF
More information: Bioscope guide
Note: The entire run from 1906 onwards is available as a subscription service, from www.varietyultimate.com. One year’s unlimited access is $600, but searching is free.
