Early film magazines like "Cinematography and Bioscope Magazine" from the 1900s served as trade papers focusing on industry news and film reviews. "The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly" from 1907 also covered business developments and short reviews. Variety, founded in 1905 as a vaudeville and stage paper, began printing film magazines and later expanded to television. "Picturegoer" from 1913-1960 was one of the earliest magazines for the general public, including interviews and stories about Hollywood. Modern magazines like "EMPIRE" and earlier niche publications aimed to entertain and inform various age demographics.

1. HISTORY OF FILM MAGAZINE COVERS

2.  One of the earlier Film Magazines was the‘Cinematography and
Bioscope Magazine’, although this was used as more of a trade paper.
 This paper informed and discussed issues and developments within the
film industry around the 1900’s. It included reviews of certain films to
be released such as‘Desperate Swindlers’.

3. The Kinematograph and Lantern
Weekly
 This trade paper started in 1907 and focused on business
developments in the world of cinema, whilst providing short
reviews of current features.

4. Variety
 Variety was a trade paper originally printed in 1905 , a
weekly show business trade paper, covering vaudeville, stage,
and film.
 When the magazine business got popular, it began printing
magazines instead. It went on to feature news on television,
aspects of new media, and to a lesser extent music. Daily
Variety started much later in 1933 and focused on motion
pictures more specifically.
 This publication still exists and comes in many forms,
including a website.

5. Picturegoer
 This was one of the earlier magazines about film, and ran
from 1913 to 1960.
 Picturegoer posted articles about How to get a job in
Hollywood’ and other articles which the public would find
interesting and exciting.

6. EMPIRE
 Is the leading film magazine in the UK today
 Established in 1989, but has had a huge success, giving insight
into film stars lives, various film stars lives, film facts, and
upcoming or recently released films.

7. Hotdog
 This was a short-lived publication running from 2000-2006.
 Introduced a quirky concept called movie maths: se7en +
Marilyn Manson x wizard of Oz = Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory

8. Demographic
 The earlier trade papers were aimed mostly at richer people,
mainly adults who were in the film industry.This is why the
articles were mostly factual rather than articles interviewing
actors.
 The film magazines created were aimed at a range of ages
from teenagers to adults, they were produced as a cheaper
commercial product which anyone could buy. In the film
magazines the were more interesting articles and more film
reviews.This content has carried on to modern day.
 Modern day film magazines are still aimed at a similar age
range, but have a higher quality of print as they are now
digitally made; this makes the magazines more expensive.