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

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 was P. S...

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

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Volume	Date Range	ISBN-10	ISBN-13
1	1919-1922	0-913616-11-7	978-0-913616-11-6
2	1923-1925	0-913616-12-5	978-0-913616-12-3
3	1926-1928	0-913616-13-3	978-0-913616-13-0
4	1929-1931	0-913616-14-1	978-0-913616-14-7
5	1932-1934	0-913616-15-X	978-0-913616-15-4
6	1935-1937	0-913616-16-8	978-0-913616-16-1
7	1938-1940	0-913616-17-6	978-0-913616-17-8
8	1941-1943	0-913616-18-4	978-0-913616-18-5
9	1944-1946	0-913616-19-2	978-0-913616-19-2
10	1947-1949	0-913616-20-6	978-0-913616-20-8
11	1950-1952	0-913616-21-4	978-0-913616-21-5
12	1953-1955	0-913616-22-2	978-0-913616-22-2
13	1956-1958	0-913616-23-0	978-0-913616-23-9
14	1959-1962	0-913616-24-9	978-0-913616-24-6
15	Index 1919-1962	0-913616-25-7	978-0-913616-25-3
set	15 volumes	0-913616-10-9	978-0-913616-10-9

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 is available online.

Index to Harrison’s Reports Short Subjects

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.”

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
  Variety (magazine)
  Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
  
  as Variety Film Reviews (1907-1996) in 24 volumes.
• New York Times as New York Times Film Reviews (1913-2000) in 22 volumes.