A great new resource for anyone in the film and media history field -- the
Lantern Archive, a new digital repository for media history resources -- has gone live as part of the
Media History Digital Library.
This new searchable archive gives access to some 800,000 pages of content that span film, television and broadcasting history, encompassing a vast number of film periodicals and magazines (if you're interested in knowing more about how these were used by audiences in the silent period, take a look at my chapter on 'Letter Writing, Cinemagoing and Archive Ephemera' in myself and Carrie's new edited collection
The Boundaries of the Literary Archive -- out now!).
The project represents a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, whose collections of film periodicals are now text-searchable online -- a
huge benefit to any researcher who has had experience of trawling page-by-page through these materials on microfiche looking for that elusive mention on one particular film or one particular star... even better, you can download images and texts.
Check it out, and enjoy the bizarre, the entertaining and the beautiful from film publishing up to the 1970s.
