PT Journal AU Alovisio, S TI Italian Magazines from the Era of Silent Film: A Source for Technological Research? SO Iluminace PY 2007 BP 77 EP 90 VL 19 IS 4 WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-200704-0006.php DE film journals; film science and research; film libraries; film literature; indexing of film literature; cataloguing and classification of film literature; technical equipment; technical developments SN 0862397X AB The author examines the role of the specialised press as a source for historiographical research of a technical-technological type and deals with questions of the significance of technical information in the specialised press of the time, the types and quality of journals, the typology of available information, and the form and credibility of reports. ER