Recent Additions
The MHDL catalog currently includes 2,921,128 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound. That's quite a large number, and we hope to keep it continually growing! Check out this page to see items that have recently been added to the MHDL collections.
To determine which materials are available for digitization, we check the U.S. copyright status of all titles. We reviewed every copyright renewal for serials (magazines) published from 1923 to 1950, and for titles after those dates, we search the copyright records for the status of the major publications published from 1951 to 1963. The copyrights for nearly all of these media industry, fan and technical publications were not renewed, and those pre-1964 works are now in the public domain.
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Recent Items:
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Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound | Pathéscope Ltd. | January 1, 1956 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Natural color film : what it is and how to use it | Nelson, Clifford A. | January 1, 1937 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Nation projector carbons | Canadian National Carbon Company | January 1, 1935 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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The romance of motion picture production | Royal, Lee | January 1, 1920 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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The Private Life of Greta Garbo | Palmborg, Rilla Page | January 1, 1931 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Radio announcers | C. De Witt White Co. | January 1, 1933 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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The theater, the cinema and ourselves | Andrews, Cyril Bruyn, 1885-1948 | January 1, 1947 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Portraits and life stories of radio stars | Syndicate Publishing Company | January 1, 1932 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Scandinavian film | Hardy, Forsyth | January 1, 1952 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Photoplay | MacFadden Publications, Inc. | January 1, 1955 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Showman | Brady, William A., 1863-1950 | January 1, 1937 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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New Screen Techniques | Quigley, Martin, Jr. | January 1, 1953 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Star-dust in Hollywood | Gordon, Jan, 1882-1944 ; and Gordon, Cora | January 1, 1930 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Servicing projection equipment | Mancall Publishing Corp. | January 1, 1932 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Star maker : the story of D. W. Griffith | Croy, Homer, 1883-1965 | January 1, 1959 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Stars of the photoplay | Photoplay Publishing Company | January 1, 1924 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Paramount's 20th birthday jubilee | Paramount Publix Corporation | January 1, 1931 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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A practical manual of screen playwriting : for theater and television films | Herman, Lewis, 1905-1966 | January 1, 1952 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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My own story | Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934 | January 1, 1934 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them | Kiesling, Barrett C. | January 1, 1937 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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The sea gypsy | Salisbury, Edward A. ; and Cooper, Merian C. | January 1, 1924 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Pictorial beauty on the screen | Freeburg, Victor Oscar, 1882- | January 1, 1923 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and brief in support thereof | Church, Melville | January 1, 1916 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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Reel Life | Mutual Film Corporation | January 1, 1916 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |
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My Eskimo Friends | Robert J. Flaherty | January 1, 1924 | Search on Lantern | Click here to read |