Picture-Play Magazine
June 1922, twenty cents, “The Best Magazine of the Screen” — Patsy Ruth Miller on the cover and, inside, one fan explaining at length exactly how Rudolph Valentino impressed her.
⬇ FREE PDF · 85.4 MB — at archive.org ↗Screen & Stage
Movie magazines from when the movies were silent and nobody knew it would last.
Photoplay
September 1928, and the great question of the hour is printed right across the bottom of the cover: “Why Mary Pickford Bobbed Her Hair”. Twenty-five cents. The talkies were about eight months away.
⬇ FREE PDF · 20.6 MBMotion Picture Classic
A soft painted portrait of Agnes Ayres on the cover, April 1922. Silent film at its absolute peak, being written about by people who could not believe their luck.
⬇ FREE PDF · 80.7 MB — at archive.org ↗Shadowland
Thirty-five cents for the most beautiful thing on the 1921 newsstand — a flat teal-and-rose art-deco dream that covered film, theatre, dance and painting as though it were obvious they are all the same subject.
⬇ FREE PDF · 17.0 MBMotion Picture Story Magazine
December 1912 — the first movie fan magazine there ever was, printing the *stories* of the pictures because you could not exactly rewatch one. A crowd scene from “The Kerry Gow” on the front.
⬇ FREE PDF · 90.3 MB — at archive.org ↗Photoplay
The movie magazine that basically invented movie magazines, back when the movies were silent and nobody was quite sure this was going to last.
⬇ FREE PDF · 77.4 MB — at archive.org ↗Screenland
A silent-era movie fan magazine — Hollywood glamour, dreamy star portraits and full-page art, straight off the 1923 newsstand.
⬇ FREE PDF · 85.6 MB — at archive.org ↗📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Screen & Stage is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 9 other categories on the 📖 Pulp shelf. ☕
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reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
