Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL)

Whether you’re doing research on the history of the film industry, or you just want to spend a few hours in a bygone era of film, the Media History Project’s Digital Library is your site.   Included are fan magazines, cinema history periodicals, technical journals, and more.  They recently made available extensive runs of Film Daily (1918-1948), Photoplay (1914-1943), Variety (1905-1926) and much more.   The material is accessible via The Lantern, and can be read online or downloaded as full volumes (FAQ here).  The Media History Project’s mission is to digitize classic media periodicals from the public domain and share them online.  We salute that mission!