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Introduction | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Pieces in a Puzzle: Prehistory of the motion picture | 2 |
2 | Sorcerer and Apprentice: Edison, Dickson, and the Kinetoscope | 18 |
3 | From Science to Show Business: Development of the Kinetoscope, as medium and commerce | 36 |
4 | The Race to the Screen: Projecting the motion picture | 52 |
5 | The Inherited Repertoire: Origins of motion picture content | 68 |
6 | Finding a Home: The rise of the nickelodeon and the purpose-built cinema | 88 |
7 | Wars and Order: Patents wrangles and industrial organization | 100 |
8 | Production and the Way West: The migration to California | 112 |
9 | Telling Stories: Development of film narrative | 120 |
10 | International Rivalries: America and Europe struggle for market domination | 132 |
11 | Features and Palaces: Revolutions in exhibition | 140 |
12 | The Year 1913: The cinema comes of age | 150 |
Principal Works Consulted | 177 | |
Picture Credits | 181 | |
Index | 187 |
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