This week over 200 scholars, teachers, archivists, and creators will be participating in the inaugural Hollywood Conference. Whether you're attending the conference or just following along via social media, check out this list of online resources that WCFTR Director Eric Hoyt has compiled for studying Hollywood's rich and storied history.

https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/2025/07/17/resources-for-studying-the-hollywood-studio-system-with-thanks-to-dear-friends/

A huge thank you to The People's Archive at The DC Public Library for digitizing the complete runs of "TeleVISIONS" (1975-81) and "Community Video Report" (1973-74) — both of which are now available to search and browse in the MHDL!

These were early trade magazines for the emerging videotape, cable TV and satellite broadcasting industries published by the Washington Community Video Center, a collective focused on using emerging technologies to democratize media access.

https://mediahist.org/features/publications-volumes.php?id=TeleVISIONS

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 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/

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 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