Recent Additions

Recent Additions

The MHDL catalog currently includes 2,915,076 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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Weekly television digestTelevision Digest, Inc.January 1, 1963Search on LanternClick here to read
Weekly television digestTelevision Digest, Inc.January 1, 1962Search on LanternClick here to read
Weekly television digestTriangle Publications, Inc.January 1, 1961Search on LanternClick here to read
Weekly television digestTriangle Publications, Inc.January 1, 1960Search on LanternClick here to read

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Weekly kinema guide: London suburban reviews and programmesK.G. Publ. Co., Ltd.January 1, 1930Search on LanternClick here to read

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Victor recordsVictor Talking Machine CompanyNovember 19, 1916Search on LanternClick here to read

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Universal Weekly{"Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.","Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co."}January 1, 1923Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal WeeklyUniversal PicturesJanuary 1, 1922Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal Weekly{"Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.","Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co."}January 1, 1920Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal Weekly{"Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.","Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co."}January 1, 1933Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal Weekly{"Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.","Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co."}January 1, 1925Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal WeeklyUniversal PicturesJanuary 31, 1936Search on LanternClick here to read
Universal Weekly{"Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.","Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co."}January 1, 1927Search on LanternClick here to read

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Motion Picture NewsQuigley Publishing Co.January 1, 1914Search on LanternClick here to read

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Visual EducationJanuary 31, 1920Search on LanternClick here to read
Visual EducationJanuary 31, 1922Search on LanternClick here to read

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W. C. Fields : his follies and fortunesTaylor, Robert LewisJanuary 1, 1949Search on LanternClick here to read

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VarietyVarietySeptember 19, 1950Search on LanternClick here to read
VarietyVarietyNovember 19, 1940Search on LanternClick here to read

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PhotoplayMacFadden Publications, Inc.January 1, 1948Search on LanternClick here to read

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ValentinoArnold, Alan, 1922-1987January 1, 1954Search on LanternClick here to read

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Valentino as I knew himUllman, S. GeorgeJanuary 1, 1926Search on LanternClick here to read

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U. S. RadioArnold Albert Publications, Inc.January 1, 1957Search on LanternClick here to read

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The Moving Picture WorldThe Moving Picture WorldJanuary 1, 1907Search on LanternClick here to read

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Wallace Reid : his life story as related by his motherReid, Bertha WestbrookJanuary 1, 1923Search on LanternClick here to read