EARLY CINEMA : a bibliographyEARLY CINEMA - A BIBLIOGRAPHY The exploration of the first twenty-five years of the cinema has been one of the most active areas of film studies in the past twenty or so years. This bibliography brings together a collection of the most recent academic work with a selection of classic texts, some of which may benefit from critical scrutiny in the light of recent research. Pre-history General HECHT, Hermann, ed Ann Hecht (1993) Pre-cinema History - an Encyclopedia and Annotated Bibliography of the Moving Image before 1896 Bowker Saur, East Grinstead LIESEGANG, Franz Paul, ed Herman Hecht (1986) Dates and Sources: A Contribution to the History of the Art of Projection and the Cinematograph Magic Lantern Society, Kirkby Malzeard MANNONI, Laurent, ed Richard Crangle (2000) The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema University of Exeter Press, Exeter MANNONI, Laurent, Werner Nekes and Marina Warner (2004) Eyes Lies and Illusions Hayward Gallery, London The Magic Lantern CROMPTON, Dennis, Richard Franklin and Stephen Herbert (eds) (1997) Servants of Light: The Book of the Lantern The Magic Lantern Society, Kirkby Malzeard HEARD, Mervyn (2006) Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern The Projection Box, Hastings ROBINSON, David (1993) The Lantern Image - Iconography of the Magic Lantern, 1420-1880 The Magic Lantern Society, Nutley ROBINSON, David, Stephen Herbert and Richard Crangle (eds) (2001) Encyclopedia of the Magic Lantern The Magic Lantern Society, Kirkby Malzeard Chronophotography BRAUN, Marta (1992) Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne Jules Marey, 1830-1904 University of Chicago Press, Chicago HENDRICKS, Gordon (1975) Eadweard Muybridge, Father of the Motion Picture Secker and Warburg, London HERBERT, Stephen (2004) Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest The Projection Box, Hastings MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard (1979) Animal and Human Locomotion, 3 vols (reprint) Dover Publications, Mineola Inventions and Technology COE, Brian (1981) The History of Movie Photography Ash and Grant, London/Eastview Editions, Westfield DICKSON, W K L and Antonia Dickson (2001) History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophotograph (reprint) Harry N. Abrams, New York ENTICKNAP, Leo (2005) Moving Image Technology - from Zoetrope to Digital Wallflower Press, London FIELDING, Raymond (ed) (1967) A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television University of California Press, Berkeley HENDRICKS, Gordon (1972) The Edison Motion Picture Myth Arno Press, New York MANNONI, Laurent (1996) Le Mouvement Continué. Catalogue illustré de la collection des appareils de la Cinémathèque Française Mazzotta, Milan and Cinémathèque Française, Paris PHILLIPS, Ray (1997) Edison’s Kinetoscope and its Films - A History to 1896 Flicks Books, Trowbridge RAWLENCE, Christopher (1990) The Missing Reel Collins, London EARLY CINEMA : a bibliography Continued.... www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk ROSSELL, Deac (1998) Living Pictures: The Origins of the Movies State University of New York Press, New York TALBOT, Frederick A (1912) Moving Pictures and How they are Made and Worked Heinemann, London TALBOT, Frederick A (1913) Practical Cinematography Heinemann, London THOMAS, D B (1964) The Origins of the Motion Picture HMSO, London LUMIERE, Auguste, Louis Lumière, Jacques Rittaud Hutinet, d'Yvelise Dentzer, Pierre Hodgson (1996) Letters: Inventing the Cinema Faber and Faber, London Early Cinema General ABEL, Richard (ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Early Cinema Routledge, Abingdon/New York BARNOUW. Erik (1981) The Magician and the Cinema Oxford University Press, Oxford CHANAN, Michael (1980) The Dream That Kicks Routledge and Kegan Paul, London ELSAESSER, Thomas (ed.) (1990) Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative BFI Publishing, London FULLERTON, John (ed.) (1998) Celebrating 1895 John Libbey, Sydney HARDING, Colin and Simon Popple (1996) In the Kingdom of Shadows: A Companion to Early Cinema Cygnus Arts, London HERBERT, Stephen, Colin Harding and Simon Popple (1996) Victorian Film Catalogues: A Facsimile Collection The Projection Box, Hastings HERBERT, Stephen and Luke McKernan (eds) (1996) Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema BFI Publishing, London LLOYD, Ann (ed) (1984)) Movies of the Silent Years Orbis, Birkenhead POPPLE, Simon and Joe Kember (2003) Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory Wallflower Press, London RAMSAYE, Terry (1926) A Million and One Nights Simon and Shuster, New York SALT, Barry (1983) Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis Starword, London USAI, Paolo Cherchi (1999) Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema BFI Publishing, London Great Britain BARNES, John (1996-1998) The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901 (5 volumes) University of Exeter Press, Exeter BROWN, Richard and Barry Anthony (1997) A Victorian Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company Flicks Books, Trowbridge DICKSON, W K L (1995) The Biograph in Battle (reprint) Flicks Books, Trowbridge HEPWORTH, Cecil (1951) Came the Dawn: Memoirs of a Film Pioneer Phoenix House, London LOW, Rachael (1949) The History of the British Film: 1906 -1914 Allen and Unwin, London LOW, Rachael and Roger Manvell (1973) The History of the British Film: 1896 -1906 Allen and Unwin, London TOULMIN, Vanessa, Simon Popple and Patrick Russell (eds) (2004) The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on FilmBFI Publishing, London France ABEL, Richard (1984) French Cinema, the First Wave, 1915-1929 Princeton University Press, Princeton ABEL, Richard (1994) The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896-1914 University of California Press, Berkeley HUTINET, Jacques Rittaud (1985) Le Cinéma des Origines: Les Frères Lumière et leurs Opérateurs Edition du Champ Valon, Seyssel (in French) INSTITUT LUMIERE (1992) Lumière - Le Cinéma Exhibition Catalogue, Institut Lumière, Lyon (in French) MESGUICH, Felix (1933) Tours de Manivelle: Souvenirs d’un Chasseur d’Images (Bernard Grasset, Paris (in French) ROBINSON, David (1993) George Méliès: Father of Film Fantasy BFI Publishing,, London TOULET, Emanuelle (1988) Cinématographe, Invention du Siècle Decouverts Gallimard, Paris (in French) EARLY CINEMA : a bibliography Continued.... www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk Russia TAYLOR, Richard and Ian Christie (eds) (1988) The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939 Routledge and Kegan Paul, London TSIVIAN, Yuri (1990) Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1919 BFI Publishing, London United States BOWSER, Eileen (1990) The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York BROWNLOW, Kevin (1976) The Parade’s Gone By University of California Press, Berkeley (revised edition) BROWNLOW, Kevin (1979) Hollywood: The Pioneers Collins, London GRAFTON, Donald (1982) Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1892-1928 MIT Press, Cambridge GUNNING, Tom (1990) D W Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative FilmUniversity of Illinois Press, Urbana FELL, John L (1983) Film before Griffith (University of California Press, Berkeley KOSZARSKI, Richard (1994) An Evening’s Entertainment: the Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 University of California Press, Berkeley LEYDA, Jay and Charles Musser (eds) (1987) Before Hollywood American Federation of the Arts, New York MUSSER, Charles (1990) The Emergence of Cinema: the American Screen to 1907 Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York MUSSER, Charles (1991) Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company University of California Press, Berkeley MUSSER, Charles (1985) Thomas Edison Papers: A Guide to Motion Picture Catalogues by American Producers and Distributors, 1894-1908 University Publications of America, Washington DC THOMPSON, Kristen (1985) Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market, 1907-1934 (BFI Publishing, London Articles BOWEN, Harold G (1955) ‘Thomas Alva Edison’s Early Motion Picture Experiments’ SMPTE Journal, Vol 64 COE, Brian (March/April 1962) ‘William Friese Greene and the Origins of Kinematography’ Photographic Journal 92-104 and 121-127 DICKSON, W K L (December 1933) ‘A Brief History of the Kinetograph, the Kinetoscope and the Kinetophonograph’ SMPE Journal, 21:435-455 GUNNING, Tom (1986) ‘The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde’ Wide Angle, 8: 3/4, LUMI?RE, Louis (December 1936) ‘The Lumière Cinématographe’ SMPE Journal, 27:640-647 PAUL, Robert W (November 1936) ‘Kinematographic Experiences’ SMPTE Journal, 27:495-510 PAUL, R W, C M Hepworth and W G Barker (1936) ‘Before 1910: Kinematograph Experiences’ Proceedings of the British Kinematograph Society 38:1-16 TÜMMEL, Herbert (January 1963) Birt Acres: An Almost Forgotten English Pioneer of Cinematography Cinema Studies, Vol 1, No 7 Websites http://www.charlesurban.com/ Chares Urban http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html Thomas Edison http://edison.rutgers.edu/mopix/mopix.htm Edison Papers http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/essay_1983.php Charles Musser essay http://cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/ The Silent Film Bookshelf http://www.victorian-cinema.net/ Who's Who of Victorian Cinema http://www.institut-lumiere.org/english/frames.html Lumière Museum http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/ Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ Pordenone Early Film Festival