A History of Early Film, Volume 1Stephen Herbert Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern Projection of Moving Objects' heralds the arival of the first screenings in Britain, arranged by Auguste and Louis Lumière, Robert Paul and Birt Acres, announcing the new medium as a progressive development of optical moving-image toys, magic lantern projection and the Kinetoscope. It includes an evocative selection of advertisements for the earliest films and cinematographic apparatus of 1896-7. The last part of the volume covers 1901-6 as the medium of cinema developed. |
Contents
The medium develops 19016 | 48 |
Cinematograph Show under the new L C C rules cartoon The Showman 8 March 1901 | 73 |
Animated Pictures and Elocution The Showman 20 September 1901 | 151 |
VOLUME 2 | 270 |
Notes on Current Topics W H B Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly No 11 1907 | 289 |
The Triumph of Colour The Bioscope 26 October 1911 | 322 |
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