The MHDL is an open-access digital archive featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Led by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
| MHDL Website | https://mediahist.org |
| Lantern Search | https://lantern.mediahist.org |
| WCFTR | https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu |
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
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 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.
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 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 uploaded, you'll be able to browse them all on our website:
https://mediahist.org/features/publications-volumes.php?id=Film%20Culture
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.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 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.
