FILM BEFORE GRIFFITH

Credits = xi Introduction = 1 PART Ⅰ Place and Production Introduction = 9 The Kinetoscope: Fall Motion Picture Production / GORDON HENDRICKS = 13 The American Vitagraph, 1897-1901: Survival and Success in a Competitive Industry / CHARLES MUSSER = 22 Images of Canada / PETER MORRIS = 67 In the Beginning, 1896-1911 / ISTVÁN NEMESKÜRTY = 75 Australian Silent Films, 1904-1907: The Features Begin / ERIC READE = 81 The Yorkshire Pioneers / ALLAN T. SUTHERLAND = 92 PART Ⅱ Exhibition and Distribution Introduction = 101 Contra the Chaser Theory / ROBERT C. ALLEN = 105 Hale's Tours: Ultrarealism in the Pre-1910 Motion Picture / RAYMOND FIELDING = 116 Edwin J. Hadley: Traveling Film Exhibitor / EDWARD LOWRY = 131 Vitascope/Cinématographe: Initial Patterns of American Film Industrial Practice / ROBERT C. ALLEN = 144 The Lumière Organization and "Documentary Realism" / ALAN WILLIAMS = 153 Motion Picture Exhibition in Manhattan, 1906-1912: Beyond the Nickelodeon / ROBERT C. ALLEN = 162 Copyright and Early Theater, Vaudeville, and Film Competition / JEANNE THOMAS ALLEN = 176 The First Picture Shows: Austin, Texas, 1894-1913 / BURNES ST. PATRICK HOLLYMAN = 188 The First Motion Picture Audiences / GARTH S. JOWETT = 196 Edison Sales Policy and the Continuous Action Film, 1904-1906 / DAVID LEVY = 207 PART Ⅲ The Films Introduction = 225 Cinema and the Romantic Tradition / JOHN HAGAN = 229 Alexander Black's Picture Plays, 1893-1894 / BURNES ST. PATRICK HOLLYMAN = 236 George Méliès and the Féerie / KATHERINE SINGER KOVÁCS = 244 Paper Prints of Early Motion Pictures / KEMP R. NIVER = 258 Imperialist Iconography of Anglo-Boer War Film Footage / ELIZABETH GROTTLE STREBEL = 264 Motive, Mischief, and Melodrama: The State of Film Narrative in 1907 / JOHN L FELL = 272 The Early Development of Film Form / BARRY SALT = 284 Structural Patterning in the Lumiére Films / MARSHALL DEUTELBAUM = 299 Temporality and Narrativity in Early Cinema, 1895-1908 / ANDRÉ GAUDREAULT = 311 Toward Narrative, 1907: The Mill Girl / EILEEN BOWSER = 330 The Lady Vanishes: Women, Magic, and the Movies / LUCY FISCHER = 339 An Unseen Energy Swallows Space: The Space in Early Film and Its Relation to American Avant-Garde Film / TOM GUNNING = 355 Griffith's Film Career Before The Adventures of Dollie / EILEEN BOWSER = 367 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 375 INDEX OF FILM TITLES = 383 GENERAL INDEX = 389

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