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''Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews'' is the 15-volume reprint of the complete run of the weekly magazine ''
Harrison's Reports ''Harrison's Reports'' was a New York City-based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962. The typical issue was four letter-size pages sent to subscribers under a second-class mail permit. Its founder, editor and publisher ...
'' from its founding in 1919 to its demise in 1962. Volumes 1 through 14 are facsimile reprints of the more than 2,000 weekly issues. The reprints were edited by D. Richard Baer and published 1992-1995 by Hollywood Film Archive.


Film review index

Volume 15 is an alphabetical index of the films reviews, approximately 17,000 in all. Films are also indexed by alternate titles and original foreign language titles. Over 99% of the reprints were reproduced from original issues, the rest from photocopies or microfilm blowups. The index volume includes a two-page narrative titled “A Brief History of these Reprints” about how all the issues were gathered.


Volumes and years covered


Volume summaries

At the front of each volume is a one-page summary of the more important issues discussed in the editorials of that period.


Original indexes reprinted

''Harrison's Reports'' published its own index up to eight times per year. In the reprint volumes, these indexes are printed on yellow paper at the beginning of each calendar year's gathered reprints of 52 (occasionally 53) weeks of issues.


Index of shorts

Although ''Harrison's Reports'' reviewed only feature films, not shorts, the indexes included lists of forthcoming and recently released shorts, grouped by releasing company. Published separately from these reprints, ''An Index to Short Subjects Listed in Harrison’s Reports 1926-1962'' by Gerald Jones (self-published November 2004) is a complete alphabetical index of all the shorts and cartoons listed in the many separate indexes. This index used to be available online.


Critical review

The review by ''Library Journal'' stated, “Taken in its 43-year entirety, Harrison's Reports is a very useful reflection of the industry's major trends and provides something of a social history of the United States as well.”''
Library Journal ''Library Journal'' is an American trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey. It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional pract ...
'' review; August 1992, page 90


Other reprints of film reviews

''Harrison’s Reports'' is one of the three English-language periodicals with 10,000 or more film reviews reprinted in book form. The other two are * '' Variety'' as ''
Variety Film Reviews ''Variety Film Reviews'' is the 24-volume hardcover reprint of feature film reviews by the weekly entertainment tabloid-size magazine '' Variety'' from 1907 to 1996. Film reviews continued to be published in the weekly magazine after the reprints w ...
'' (1907–1996) in 24 volumes. * ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' as ''The New York Times Film Reviews'' (1913–2000) in 22 volumes.


References

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