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The Kinetoscope : A British History /
The position of the kinetoscope in film history is central and undisputed; indicative of its importance is the detailed attention American scholars have given to examining its history. However, the Kinetoscope's development in Britain has not been well documented and much current information ab...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Barnet [England] :
John Libbey Publishing Ltd,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Charles Musser
- 1. The kinetoscope : an international perspective
- 2. The arrival of the kinetoscope in Britain and early developments
- 3. Cameras and conflict
- 4. The legal and intellectual property context
- 5. Marketing the kinetoscope in Britain
- 6. Commercial decline and new beginnings
- 7. Edison's latest
- 8. The first British films
- 9. A premiere at the Nag's Head
- 10. Magic, magnates and galvanic forces
- 11. Birt Acres and the Kaiser's kinetoscope
- 12. Transatlantic filming
- 13. Making an exhibition
- 14. The machine as evidence : the survival or otherwise of the British kinetoscopes / by Michael Harvey
- Appendix 1. Kinetoscope exhibitions in the UK, 1894-1895
- Appendix 2. Paul/Acres and Acres films of 1895
- Appendix 3. 'Outcasts of London' and the first portrayal of movie-making on stage
- Appendix 4. British Dealers in kinetoscopes
- Appendix 5. The kinetoscope legal action.