Kinematograph Weekly

Kinematograph Weekly was founded in 1889 as the monthly publication Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger.

In 1914 it published its first annual publication for the film industry, the Kinematograph Yearbook, Program Diary and Directory.

This was the name Odhams had given to Hultons—publisher of Picture Post (the magazine which pioneered photojournalism in the UK) and of the famous Eagle comic among other titles—when it took over that company in 1960.

The issues of Kinematograph Weekly provide an invaluable record of the development of the British film and television industries, and are widely studied by researchers.

A partial online index of issues – covering the period 1955 to the end of the publication in 1971, plus material from the late 1890s, early 1915, 1943 to mid-1945, and January to June 1954 – has been produced by the British Cinema History Research Project, based at the University of East Anglia.