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Read about the intercontinental exchange of cinema ideas and information in Global Movie Magazine Networks (UC Press), a new collection...

Read about the intercontinental exchange of cinema ideas and information in Global Movie Magazine Networks (UC Press), a new collection edited by Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway. 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.

A free ebook version of this title is available online through Luminos.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/global-movie-magazine-networks/paper

We're happy to learn the that the Internet Archive (@internetarchive) is now partially back online, with content available in a...

We're happy to learn the that the Internet Archive (@internetarchive) is now partially back online, with content available in a read-only state. This means that all page scans should now once again be viewable at https://mediahist.org and searchable at https://lantern.mediahist.org

The MHDL uses the Internet Archive to store high-quality versions of our scanned materials, which enables us to share them widely and freely. You can read more about their ongoing work to perform mantainence and upgrade systems on the Internet Archive Blog:

https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

Good morning, MHDL users - The Internet Archive website is offline, again, due to ongoing DDoS attacks. This will once again make all page...

Good morning, MHDL users -

The Internet Archive website is offline, again, due to ongoing DDoS attacks. This will once again make all page scans unavailable on https://mediahist.org and https://lantern.mediahist.org

You can check The Internet Archive's Twitter page for more up-to-date information on their server status: https://twitter.com/internetarchive

The Internet Archive website is now back online, and their team is currently assessing the extent of damage/compromised systems. See...

The Internet Archive website is now back online, and their team is currently assessing the extent of damage/compromised systems. See https://x.com/brewster_kahle/status/1844183111514603812 for more info.

Page scans are once again available on our sites, and should remain visible. There's no evidence of any compromised data or private information from mediahist.org servers and applications -- though if you have an archive.org account, you should update your passwords there.

The Internet Archive is offline due to numerous attacks in the past days. As a result, all page scans are currently unavailable on...

The Internet Archive is offline due to numerous attacks in the past days.

As a result, all page scans are currently unavailable on lantern.mediahist.org and mediahist.org.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and will provide updates as soon as we are able.

https://twitter.com/brewster_kahle/status/1844133492453671192

Check out the Velvet Light Trap's CFP on Continuity and Change in Media Representation. They’re interested in diverse archival and...

Check out the Velvet Light Trap's CFP on Continuity and Change in Media Representation. They’re interested in diverse archival and historiographic debates in film and television representation, including from global to local scales. Submissions welcome from reception, industry, as well as production histories:

https://t.co/SYtJHaAZEl

We can't help but wonder if the lengthy title is part of the reason that this 1965 film from 20th Century Fox was quickly...

We can't help but wonder if the lengthy title is part of the reason that this 1965 film from 20th Century Fox was quickly forgotten...

Decide for yourself after you flip through the promotional pressbook for THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES OR HOW I FLEW FROM LONDON TO PARIS IN 25 HOURS AND 11 MINUTES

https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=pressbook-fox-those-magnificent-men

Be sure to also check out the collection overview essay written by Paul Moore, Jessica Whitehead, and Louis Pelletier. It serves as a...

Be sure to also check out the collection overview essay written by Paul Moore, Jessica Whitehead, and Louis Pelletier. It serves as a fantastic introduction to the collection and provides thorough context for each publication's history, as well as their complicated relationship to Hollywood (which always treated Canada as part of the American *domestic* market).

Read the essay and browse the collection at: https://mediahist.org/collections/canada/

We're thrilled to announce that the MHDL collection of Canada's Film Press is now fully online and available to...

We're thrilled to announce that the MHDL collection of Canada's Film Press is now fully online and available to browse!

https://mediahist.org/collections/canada/

We're indebted to Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead, whose ongoing support and tireless work to digitize and prepare materials has made this collection possible. Thank you so much!

Here's an AI rendition of what our servers currently look like.For the last few weeks, Lantern and the MHDL websites have been...

Here's an AI rendition of what our servers currently look like.

For the last few weeks, Lantern and the MHDL websites have been experiencing significant traffic (that's great!) which has been causing loading times to slow and often stall entirely (that's bad!) - we understand that it is frustrating and disappointing when these sites are not working like you have come to expect.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as our team works to upgrade server capacity and improve reliability.

David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on February 29, 2024 at...

David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on February 29, 2024 at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness.

When Bordwell launched his career in the 1970s, film studies was just entering academia, and over the course of three decades at the UW-Madison, as well as a remarkably productive post-retirement, he helped the still-young discipline achieve new levels of respectability and intellectual rigor. He authored, coauthored, or edited some 22 books and monographs.

To an international community of filmmakers, film students, and cinephiles, David Bordwell was the most respected film scholar of his generation. But to his very wide and ever-widening circle of friends, he also was a warm, witty, unaffected companion.

He is survived by his wife, Kristin Thompson; his sisters, Diane Bordwell Verma and Darlene Bordwell; his nephew, Sanjeev Verma, and his niece, Kamini Verma.

https://commarts.wisc.edu/2024/03/remembering-professor-emeritus-david-bordwell/

Well, why not? It's leap year!

Well, why not? It's leap year!

We've been keeping the scanner continually running, digitizing our extensive collection of pressbooks. Along the way, we've been...

We've been keeping the scanner continually running, digitizing our extensive collection of pressbooks. Along the way, we've been discovering (and rediscovering) all kinds of great forgotten classics. Who could forget this Disney classic? THE GNOME MOBILE (1967)

Check it out: https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=pressbook-disney-the-gnome-mobile
And browse all our digitized pressbooks at: https://mediahist.org/collections/pressbooks/

Next up on the docket for digitization: an extensive collection of pressbooks for some *excellent* B-movies by Monogram Pictures. Though...

Next up on the docket for digitization: an extensive collection of pressbooks for some *excellent* B-movies by Monogram Pictures. Though often dismissed as a "poverty row" studio, Monogram's work is an excellent snapshot of an important era of film history, and arguably of graphic design too--just LOOK at those colors!

Check out what's already available online here: https://mediahist.org/projects/monogram.php

Digitization update: we're making great strides in scanning issues of FILM CULTURE held by the @wcftr! As the scans are processed and...

Digitization update: we're making great strides in scanning issues of FILM CULTURE held by the @wcftr!

As the scans are processed and uploaded, you'll be able to browse them all on our website:
https://mediahist.org/features/publications-volumes.php?id=Film%20Culture

Wondering how best to keep up with the Media History Digital Library? Follow us on major social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook,...

Wondering how best to keep up with the Media History Digital Library? Follow us on major social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon) as well as check out the @wcftr Blog for the latest news: what we're currently scanning, plans for future collections, and ongoing research projects!

Learn more at our website: https://mediahist.org/about/contact.php

Thanks to our supporters, we have made great strides in expanding our online collections:- Ongoing growth of our non-US collections-...

Thanks to our supporters, we have made great strides in expanding our online collections:

- Ongoing growth of our non-US collections
- Completed scans of pressbooks for Warner Bros. sound film catalog
- Server upgrades and maintenance to support continued growth and use

In the coming months, we'll be continuing our work to support film and media researchers, scholars, and fans. Our immediate goals are:

- beginning to scan issues of FILM CULTURE
- preparing to scan pressbooks from Monogram Pictures
- expand collection of Canadian film magazines

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Lantern’s 10 year anniversary! We’re excited to report that thanks to your generosity, we...

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Lantern’s 10 year anniversary!

We’re excited to report that thanks to your generosity, we surpassed our fundraising goal! With your support, we’re able to continue scanning magazines, pressbooks, and more—all of which will be freely available and searchable at lantern.mediahist.org

If you missed last month’s celebration, don’t worry! You can still support Lantern and the Media History Digital Library by heading to https://www.supportuw.org/giveto/mediahistory

We've recently scanned and uploaded several magazines donated by David Bordwell, which are now online at http://mediahist.orgWe are...

We've recently scanned and uploaded several magazines donated by David Bordwell, which are now online at http://mediahist.org

We are immensely grateful to David for sharing his collection with us and for all that he does for the field!

These new scans include:

Proceedings of the British Kinematograph Society
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=british-kinematograph-society-4
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=british-kinematograph-society-6
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=british-kinematograph-society-14
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=british-kinematograph-society-41
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=42

We've also now digitized from Bordwell's collection:

Hollywood Spectator, Feb 29 1936
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=hollywood-spectator-1936-02-29

Movie Age, Dec 31 1927
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=movie-age-1927-12-31

The Theatre, Sept 1907
https://mediahist.org/reader.php?id=the-theatre-1907-09

In the last 10 years, Lantern has transformed how media historians do their work. Instead scrolling through microfilm, researchers can...

In the last 10 years, Lantern has transformed how media historians do their work. Instead scrolling through microfilm, researchers can easily search text in over 2.8 million pages of books & magazines

Learn more and help support the next 10 years at: http://lantern.mediahist.org/lantern10

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Lantern is made possible by your support!
Thanks to an anonymous donor, all contributions made in August will be matched 1-to-1. Your support helps us continue scanning magazines and developing new ways to search, visualize, and explore the MHDL.

https://www.supportuw.org/giveto/mediahistory