''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a

trade paper A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this ...

catering to the

British film industry The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, the "golden age" of British cinema is usually thought to have occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors ...

between 1889 and 1971.

History

''Kinematograph Weekly'' was founded in 1889 as the monthly publication ''Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger''. In 1907 it was renamed ''Kinematograph Weekly'', containing trade news, advertisements, reviews, exhibition advice, and reports of regional and national meetings of trade organisations such as the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the Kinema Renters' Society. It was first published by pioneering film enthusiast, industrialist and printing entrepreneur E. T. Heron. In 1914 it published its first

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for the film industry, the ''Kinematograph Yearbook, Program Diary and Directory''. ''Kinematograph Weekly'' was owned by the periodical publisher

Odhams Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968. Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and the ...

. Towards the latter part of its run it was published by Odhams' subsidiary Longacre Press. This was the name Odhams had given to Hultons—publisher of ''

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'' (the magazine which pioneered photojournalism in the UK) and of the famous ''

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'' comic among other titles—when it took over that company in 1960. In 1970, Odhams itself was taken over by IPC Specialist and Professional Press Ltd. The title was sold to British and American Film Holdings Ltd in September 1971, which merged it with rival film-trade paper ''Today's Cinema''; this, in turn, was relaunched in September 1975 as ''

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'', which is now owned and published by Media Business Insight. 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. In particular, its published annual polls provide the most complete British box-office records available. A partial index of the newspaper – 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

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, and is available online.University of East Anglia: ''Kine Weekly Online Index''
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References

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