Imagining the Screen: Boy’s Cinema Magazine in the 1930s

This installment (#4 of 5) of Time Frames draws on the Media History Digital Library, a reservoir of information about early cinema that includes the sorts of magazines, journals, and trade publications that, in the pre-digital era, had only been available to those able to travel to research libraries. At over 800,000 scanned pages and growing, the collection is daunting. In Time Frames I’ll cull through and select a series of images and text from the collection to highlight key transformative moments in the film culture and industry, as well as other oddities and obscure artifacts. One of the more fascinating fan magazines of the early […]