Literature

Silent Cinema

Management No. BFM003405

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Contents: Contents Foreward = vii Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition (2000) David Robinson = x Preface to the First English Edition (1994) kevin Brownlow = xiii Introduction: burning Passions = xvii 1. The fomance of Celluloid = 1 2. The Way of All Flesh Tones = 21 3. The Ethics of Film Preservation = 44 4. Raiders of the Lost Nitrate = 77 5. F for Filmography = 91 6. Histoire de Detective = 124 7. Film History Pursued by Other Means = 156 Appendices 1: Film Measurement Tables = 170 2: Moving Image Archives = 175 3: Identification of Melies Films by the star Film Trademarks 1896-1913 4: Identification of Eastman Kodak Stock by its Edge Codes 1913-25 = 189 5: Identification of Pathe Films by their Edge Marks = 191 6: Film Mutilation and How to Prevent It(1924) = 193 7: The Film Prayer = 206 Index = 207