Over time, works of all kinds fall into the public domain and are therefore freely accessible to everyone. This is the case for books in particular, but also for magazines.
The website Media History Project is precisely intended to retrieve books and magazines related to cinema, television and music. This collection thus contains more than 1 documents and magazines related to these fields. But to find your way through this open source jumble, there is a search engine called Lantern, which will allow you to apply filters and keywords to find everything you want.
In terms of the content of this database, most of the publications date from before 1964 (because they have fallen into the public domain) and go back to 1849. However, most of the archives are grouped between 1923 and 1963.
Of course, the vast majority of available documents are in English, but you can still find nearly 13 magazines in French, including some real gems like the Ciné-Journal magazine, for which you can find magazines from between 000 and 1908.
The search engine is really well designed and allows you to filter your results according to various criteria (dates, format, language, etc.). Note that it is also possible to perform an advanced search by keywords which will allow you to find magazines that mention films, actors or other.
Finally, once you have found what you are looking for, you can view the magazine online or download it in various formats (PDF, eBook, Text, etc.).
Please note that all the works are hosted by the famous Internet Archive who has made it his mission for several years to protect our heritage from websites to video games from the 80s!
In short, Lantern is an excellent search engine that will allow you to find lots of beautiful things in a very rich collection of magazines. If you are a fan of old cinema, you will be delighted!
