An Index to Short and Feature Film Reviews in the Moving Picture World The Early Years, 1907-1915

Subjects:

• Popular Culture » Film Studies
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• ...highly recommended
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  Classic Images
• ...experienced researchers will immediately see the value of having those 27,000 film reviews finally indexed and accessible.
  —The Big Reel
• D,Agostino's index provides film scholars unprecedented access to thousands of films reviewed in one of the more respected early film periodicals. ... This index is recommended for academic and special libraries that support a film studies curriculm.
  — ARBA

• Endorsement From
  Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian: The pioneering trade magazine Moving Picture World continues to serve as a kind of Bible for anyone researching the early days of filmmaking in this country. I'm very glad that a historian as diligent as Annette D'Agostino has taken on the task of indexing this invaluable reference source.
• Endorsement From Joe Franklin, television and radio personality: As a long-time fan and avid collector of Moving Picture World magazine, I have advocated and "dreamed" of [this type of] book. Silent film culture (and the interest therein) is mounting; Annette's book will be crucially important--not only for enthusiasts of the genre, but also for encouraging current and unborn generations to climb aboard and savor.
• Endorsement From James Robert Parish, cinema chronicler: Index to Moving Picture World fills a much needed gap for the cinema researcher, allowing the user to speedily check out the publication's coverage of those elusive shorts and feature films of the early silent era as well as to quickly know who manufactured the picture in question.
• Endorsement From Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker and historian: This index will save an enormous amount of time--and even travel--and it will lead you to productions you never knew about. It is a significant contribution to our work.
• Endorsement From Gene Vazzana, editor
  The Silent Film Monthly: An invaluable resource tool....I await its publication with bated breath.
• Endorsement From
  Bob King, editor
  Classic Images
  : The Moving Picture World is a gold mine of information for scholars of the silent film, but unfortunately it has been a lost mine to all but the hardiest prospectors. Now finally, with her book, Annette M. D'Agostino has provided us with a map that we can all use in our own discoveries of a very rich vein of cinema history.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Index