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Edison Motion Pictures 1890 1900
Author | : Charles Musser |
Publsiher | : La Cineteca del Friuli |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 8886155077 |
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In this first systematic treatment of Thomas A. Edision's fictional and documentary film output during the 1890s, Charles Musser provides production specifications, Edison company summaries, newspaper accounts, frame enlargements, and other documentation.
EDISON MOTION PICTURES
Author | : MUSSER CHARLES |
Publsiher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047138386 |
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"This book provides essential documentation of all known Edison films made between 1890 and 1900. Thomas Edison and his associates at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, invented the first system of commercial motion pictures." "Making the historical framework predominant while retaining traditional cataloging features, Edison Motion Pictures, 18901900 is of value to a wide range of scholars interested in American life at the turn of the century - those working in performance studies, film and media studies, cultural history, ethnic studies, and social and political history. Documentary filmmakers, film programmers, archivists, and librarians can also benefit from using this catalog." "Edison films from the end of the nineteenth century offer a unique visual record of American entertainment and popular culture - moving images that become much more interesting and useful when they can be examined in conjunction with pertinent documentation." "Scholars concerned with portrayals of war, depictions of the American presidency, and many other topics in the nation's political history will find much useful information."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Thomas A Edison and His Kinetographic Motion Pictures
Author | : Charles Musser |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0813522102 |
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Much controversy has surrounded Thomas A. Edison's role in the birth of motion pictures. His earliest biographers gave all honor to him; later historians gave credit to his assistants or to foreign inventors whose recognition Edison stole. Charles Musser provides a balanced assessment, arguing that while Edison left the day-to-day experimentation to his talented employees, he provided the ideas and encouragement as well as financial support. Without him, the technical hurdles would not have been overcome so quickly. As time went on, and innovations in the motion picture business shifted from improving machines to improving the moving pictures themselves and the meyhods of exhibiting them, Edison's Laboratory lost its advantage. After three decades of patent wars and attempted monopolization of cameras and projectors, the battle moved away from the inventor and toward the producers and nickelodeon owners. Edison briefly experimented with a home movie projector, to steal a march on his rivals, but he was way ahead of his time. After thirty years, he closed down his movie studio and moved on to other projects. This brief, informative story of Edison's key contributions to the invention of motion pictures is heavily illustrated and beautifully designed.
Edison s Kinetoscope and Its Films
Author | : Ray Phillips |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105022857135 |
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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.
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U S Culture
Author | : Amy Kaplan |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674264939 |
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The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. The neatly ordered kitchen in Catherine Beecher's household manual may seem remote from the battlefields of Mexico in 1846, just as Mark Twain's Mississippi may seem distant from Honolulu in 1866, or W. E. B. Du Bois's reports of the East St. Louis Race Riot from the colonization of Africa in 1917. But, as this book reveals, such apparently disparate locations are cast into jarring proximity by imperial expansion. In literature, journalism, film, political speeches, and legal documents, Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire.
Allegories of Communication
Author | : John Fullerton,Jan Olsson |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0861966511 |
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Films that Sell
Author | : Patrick Vonderau,Bo Florin,Nico De Klerk |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781838715816 |
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While moving image advertising has been around us, everywhere, for at least a century, the topic has tended to be overlooked by cinema studies. This far-reaching new collection makes an incisive contribution to a new field of study, by exploring the history, theory and practice of moving image advertising, and emphasising the dynamic and lasting relationships between print, film, broadcasting and advertising cultures.In chapters written by an international ensemble of leading scholars and archivists, the book covers a variety of materials from pre-show advertising films to lantern slides and sponsored 'educations'. With case studies of advertising campaigns and archival collections from a range of different countries, and giving consideration to the problems that advertising materials pose for preservation and presentation, this rich and expansive text testifies to the need for a new approach to this burgeoning subject that looks beyond the mere study of promotional film.
The Silent Cinema Reader
Author | : Lee Grieveson,Peter Krämer |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415252849 |
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The Silent Cinema Reader brings together key writings on cinema from the beginnings of film in 1894 to the advent of sound in 1927, addressing the development of film production and exhibition technologies, methods of distribution, film form, and film culture during this critical period on film history. Thematic sections address: film projection and variety shows; storytelling and the Nickelodeon; cinema and reform; feature films and cinema programs; classical Hollywood cinema and European national cinemas. Each section is introduced by the editors, and contains suggestions for further readings and film viewings.