The texts listed chronologically below are film trade annuals, almanacs and directories freely available online. The list includes a number from the post-1920s period that will nevertheless have information relevant to the silent period. All are available from the Internet Archive with the exception of the Kinematograph Year Book for 1914 (available from the BFI).

• Kinematograph Year Book, Program Diary and Directory 1914 (old version of BFI site)
• Who’s Who on the Screen (1920) ed. Charles Donald Fox and Milton E. Silver
• Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual – 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921
• Film Year Book 1922-23 (The 1922-23 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures)
• The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: The Motion Picture in Its Economic and Social Aspects (1926), Clyde L. King and Frank A Tichenor, eds.
• Film Year Book 1927 (The 1927 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures)
• The Motion Picture Almanac 1929 (Quigley’s)
• Motion Picture News Booking Guide 1929
• Motion Picture News Blue Book 1930
• Kinematograph Year Book 1931
• The World Film Encyclopedia 1933, ed. Clarence Winchester
• The Film Daily Presents the Product Guide and Director’s Annual 1937
• International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (Quigley’s)
• Kinematograph Year Book 1942
• The 1945 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures (Wid’s)
• Kinematograph Year Book 1947
• Production Encyclopedia 1948 (1943-1947)
• Production Encyclopedia 1952 (1947-1951)
• Kinematograph Year Book 1954
• The 1963 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures (Wid’s)