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Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films A History to 1896
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Ray Phillips
Book Code: GM0508
ISBN: 0-313-30508-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30508-5
192 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1997
List Price: $131.95
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
Series Number: 65
Reviews:
  • ...contains just about everything one might wish to know on the subject....This is not strictly an academic text. It is somewhat more entertaining in that the author will, from time to time, offer a personal aside. Recommended.
    —Classic Images
  • [A] fascinating piece of historical digging.
    —Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Description: Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured almost 1,000 Kinetoscopes and produced some 250 films to show in them. A million people worldwide first saw motion pictures through these devices. This book describes in detail how Kinetoscopes worked and how they were sold, and describes the "parlors" to which the public flocked, fascinated by the novelty of moving images. It examines how the machines were copied by others and later eclipsed by the advent of projection. It also indicates where surviving machines can be found in the United States and Europe. The book concludes with an index to Edison's films between 1892 and 1896, and presents titles, filming dates, subject descriptions, and information on the location of surviving copies. Copiously illustrated, the book is a vital research tool for all students of motion picture history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Invention of the Kinetograph and Kinetoscope
  • The All-Important Film
  • The Kinetograph (motion-picture camera)
  • The Kinetoscope
  • The "Black Maria," the World's First Motion Picture Studio
  • Selling the Merchandise: A Rare Surviving Catalogue
  • The Kinetoscope Goes Public: Kinetoscope Parlours
  • Sound Is Added: The Kinetophone
  • The Kinetoscope in Australia
  • Competition Kills the Kinetoscope
  • Surviving Kinetoscopes
  • Resurrecting Buffalo Bill
  • Index of Edison Kinetoscope Films, 1892-1896: Key to Style and Abbreviations, Key to Sources of Film Titles, Key to Film Locations
  • Bibliography
  • Useful Addresses
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-12290
LCC Class: TR885
Dewey Class: 778
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