Film before Griffith

A study of silent film from 1896 to 1908, in terms of production, distribution and exhibition, reassessing early cinema prior to the work of D.W. Griffith. References to the development of narrative, the trick film etc. Articles: Gordon Hendricks, 'The Kinetoscope: Fall Motion Picture Production'; Charles Musser, 'The American Vitagraph 1897-1901'; Peter Morris, 'Images of Canada'; Istvan Nemeskurty, 'In the beginning'; Eric Reade, 'Australian silent films, 1904-1907'; Allan T. Sutherland, 'The Yorkshire Pioneers'; Robert C. Allen, 'Contra the Chaser Theory'; Raymond Fielding, 'Hale's Tours: Ultrarealism in the pre-1910 Motion Picture' (sfx); Edward Lowry, 'Edwin J. Hadley:Traveling film exhibitor'; Robert C. Allen, 'Vitascope/Cinematographe'; Alan Williams, 'The Lumiere organisation and documentary realism'; Jeanne Thomas Allen, 'Copyright nd early theater, vaudeville and film competition'; Elizabeth Grottle Strebel, 'Imperialist iconography of Anglo-Boer War film footage'; Andre Gaudreault, 'Temporality and narrativity in early cinema'; Lucy Fischer, 'The Lady Vanishes: women, amgic and the movies'; Tom Gunning, Eileen Bowser, Barry Salt.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection