Lantern is the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library. Enter a search term to begin exploring the 2,946,024 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Representing more than 35,000 items, the Academy Library Digital Spotlight presents a curated selection of materials from the library's extensive holdings on motion picture history. Items include correspondence, photographs, sheet music, scrapbooks, lobby cards, movie ephemera, books, film magazines and industry publications. The collections also provide access to publications of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927.
