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"The Film Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide To Film & The Film Industry" [orig 1979, rev 2008] by Ephraim Katz [1932-92], revised by Ronald Dean Nolan 6th Edition: Collins 9x7½ pb [9/2008] for $24.82  
5th Edition: Collins 9x7½ pb [11/2005] for $19.80 4th Edition: HarperCollins 9x7½ pb [3/2001] out of print/used |
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"Cinema: Year By Year, 1894-2005" [2005] Edited by David Thomson & others DK Publng 7-pound hardcover [8/2005] for $31.50 1894-2004 edition by Robyn Karney & others DK Publng 7-pound hardcover [8/2004] out of print/used |
  | "Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play To The Silver Screen" [2005] by Paul Clee Clarion Books 9x9 pb [8/2005] for $14.96 |
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"A Short History of The Movies" [orig 1979; 9th edition 2005] by Gerald Mast & Bruce F. Kawin Longman 8¾x7½ pb [3/2005] for $72.00 |
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"The Story of Film: A Worldwide History of Film" [2004] by Mark Cousins (host of the B.B.C.'s 'Scene By Scene') Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6¼ pb [9/2006] for $18.21 Thunder's Mouth Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [8/2004] for $30.36 |
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"Revolution!: The Explosion of World Cinema In The Sixties" [2004] by Peter Cowie Faber & Faber 9x5¾ pb [6/2005] for $9.75 Faber & Faber 9¾x6½ hardcover [6/2004] for $25.00 |
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"Cinema Nation: The Best Writing On Film From The Nation, 1913-2000" [2000] Edited by Carl Bromley Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $16.95 |
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"Cinematic Century: An Intimate Diary of America's Affair With The Movies" [2000] by Harry Haun The author shares his vast knowledge of movie facts, anecdotes & gossip. Applause Books 11x8½ pb [2/2000] for $25.95 |
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"A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" [1997] by Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson Faber & Faber pb [12/98] out of print/used Hyperion Books hardcover [12/97] out of print/many used |
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"Parallel Tracks: The Railroad & Silent Cinema" [1997] by Lynne Kirby Duke Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [6/97] for $23.95 Duke Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [12/97] for $84.95 |
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"The Oxford History of World Cinema" [1996] Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Oxford Univ Press pb [2/99] for $20.97 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [11/96] for $55.00 |
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"Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey" [1996] Edited by Stephen Herbert & Luke McKernan British Film Institute 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
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"The History of Film" (World of Art Series) [1996] by David Parkinson Thames & Hudson 8¼x6 pb [1/96] for $11.53 |
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"100 Years of Cinema" {posters} [1995] Compiled by Bruce Hershenson self-published 10½x8¼ pb [5/99] for $20.00 self-published hardcover [10/95] not available online more posters on the Magic Lantern Movie Posters Page |
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"Film History: An Introduction" [1994] by Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell McGraw-Hill 2nd edition pb [9/2002] for $68.78 McGraw-Hill 1st edition 10x8 pb [2/94] for $69.37 |
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"Kisses" [1991] Edited by Lena Tabori
Without explanatory text: still photos & credits & dialogue text Citadel Press/Turner 14½x10¾ hardcover book & video [1/91] out of print/used |
  | "The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of The Movies" [orig 1957; rev 1978] by Arthur Knight Signet pb [3/79] out of print/used Signet mass pb [3/79] out of print/used Scribner's hardcover [4/78] out of print/used |
Videos  &  DVDs
"Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film" [HBO 1980]
Written & directed by David Gill & Kevin Brownlow, narration by James Mason
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complete box set: HBO b&w/color VHS [10/2001] 13 tapes - out of prodn/rare
full credits from IMDb Vol. 1: "The Pioneers" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 2: "In The Beginning" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 3: "Single Beds & Double Standards" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 4: "Hollywood Goes To War" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 5: "Hazard of The Game" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 6: "Swanson & Valentino" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 7: "The Autocrats" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 8: "Comedy - A Serious Business" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 9: "Out West" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 10: "The Man With The Megaphone" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 11: "Trick of The Light" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 12: "Star Treatment" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used Vol. 13: "End of An Era" HBO VHS [6/98] out of prodn/used |
"Treasures From American Film Archives" [2000-2009]
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Volume I [2000] 50 preserved films, 1893-1985
Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [10/2000] 4 disks - out of prodn/used "Encore Edition" [2005] second edition of Volume I Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [5/2005] 4 disks for $69.95 Short narrations by Laurence Fishburne; selected contents include: Early Films from The Edison Company, 1893-1906; "Interior New York Subway" [circa 1905]; "The Lonedale Operator" [1911 short] by D.W. Griffith; "The Land Beyond The Sunset" [1912 Edison short]; "Hell's Hinges" [1916 tinted Western feature] by William S. Hart; the extravagant "Snow White" [1916 feature]; "The Toll of The Sea" [1922] the first color feature, in luscious two-strip Technicolor, with Anna May Wong; "The Chechahcos" [Alaska 1924 feature]; "The Fall of The House of Usher" [France 1928 silent short]; Rare Aviation Films, 1928-36; "Murders In The Rue Morgue" [1932] by Robert Florey; Groucho Marx's Home Movies [1933 clip]; "The News Parade of 1934" short; surrealist classic "Rose Hobart" [1936 short] by Joseph Cornell; "We Work Again" documentary [1937] which contains the only film of Orson Welles's legendary 1936 Haiti-set stage production of "Voodoo Macbeth"; "Private Snafu: Spies" [F.M.P.U. 1943 short]; "The Autobiography of A Jeep" [1943 short]; "The Battle of San Pietro" documentary [1945 short] by John Huston; and "Negro Leagues Baseball" [1946 short]; N.F.P.F.'s full list of contents |
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"More Treasures From American Film Archives, 1894-1931" DVD box set [2004]
Image Ent. b&w/color DVD box set [9/2004] 3 disks & book for $71.99 50 preserved films on 3 DVDs, with book; selected contents include: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" [1894 short] with Annie Oakley; "Rip Van Winkle" [1896 short]; "The Teddy Bears" [1907 comedy short] with Teddy Roosevelt; "The Country Doctor" [1909 short] by D.W. Griffith; L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1910]; "Children Who Labor" [1912]; "The Invaders" [1912 short] by Francis Ford & Thomas Ince; "Falling Leaves" [1912] by Alice Guy-Blaché; "The Hazards of Helen" serial [1915 chapter 26]; "Gretchen The Greenhorn" [1916 feature] starring Dorothy Gish; Early Color Films, 1916-1929; "The Breath of A Nation" animated comedy [1919] by Gregory La Cava & Grim Natwick; "Lotus Blossum" [1921] surviving reel; "Clash of The Wolves" [1925 feature] starring Rin-Tin-Tin; "Inklings: Series 12" [1925 animated short] by Dave Fleischer; "Lady Winde-mere's Fan" [1925 feature] by Ernst Lubitsch, with Ronald Colman & May McAvoy; "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" [1926 animated short], an 'Out of The Inkwell' sing-along by Dave Fleischer; International Newsreel, 1926; "Greeting by George Bernard Shaw" [1928 sound short]; novelist Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage, 1928; plus commercial & industrial films, trailers and more |
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"Treasures III: Social Issues In American Film, 1900-1934" [2007]
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"Saved From The Flames: 54 Rare & Restored Films, 1896-1944" [2008]
Flicker Alley DVD set [1/2008] 3 disks for $49.95 54 short films, including films created by Segundo de Chomon, D.W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, Ub Iwerks, Lumière, Georges Méliès, Georges Mendel, George Pal, puppetmaster Tony Sarg, Mack Sennett, Gaston Velle & Lois Weber; performances by Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Duke Ellington, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Django Reinhardt, Michel Simon & Jacques Tati; plus the early color & sound film "Cyrano de Bergerac" [1900] directed by Clément Maurice |
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"Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film, 1894-1941" [2005 box set] from Anthology Film Archives, produced by David Shepard Image Ent. b&w DVD set [10/2005] 7 disks for $79.99 official movie site |
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"The History of Cinema" on 12 DVDs [2004]
"This item has been discontinued by the manufacturer" (12/2008) – BUT may show up in the Used department:  Delta Video DVD box set [2/2004] 12 disks - out of prodn/scarce includes: "Battleship Potemkin" [1925] by Sergei M. Eisenstein; "The Beloved Rogue" [1927] starring John Barrymore; "The Birth of A Nation" [1915] by D.W. Griffith; "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" [1920] starring Conrad Veidt; "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" [1920] starring John Barrymore; "The General" [1927] by Buster Keaton; "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" [1923] starring Lon Chaney; "Intolerance" [1916] by D.W. Griffith; "Metropolis" [1927] by Fritz Lang; "Nosferatu" [1922] by F.W. Murnau, starring Max Schrek; "Orphans of The Storm" [1921] by D.W. Griffith; and "The Phantom of The Opera" [1925] starring Lon Chaney – plus 11 small posters |
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"The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of The Latino Image In American Cinema" [2002 documentary film] A film by Susan Racho, Nancy De Los Santos & Alberto Dominguez Questar color DVD [1/2003] for $22.99 Questar color VHS [1/2003] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb official movie site • Teachers Guide site |
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"Slapstick Encyclopedia, 1909-1927" [2002] Curated by film historians David Shepard & Joe Adamson Image Ent. b&w DVD [4/2002] 5 disks for $62.99 includes 53 complete shorts plus snippets, from directors & comedians Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Charley Bowers, Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Max Linder, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Will Rogers, Larry Semon, Mack Sennett, Ben Turpin, & Bert Williams |
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"The Movies Begin: A Treasury of Early Cinema 1894-1913" [2002]
Kino Intl b&w DVD [2/2002] 5 disks for $89.96    Kino Intl b&w VHS [2/2002] 5 tapes for $94.95 |
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"The Origins of Film" box set [2001] from the Library of Congress & The Smithsonian Image Ent b&w DVD [3/2001] 3 disks for $71.99 |
  | "Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies" [indep video release 2001] 90-minute documentary about the Hollywood that was not the major studios: B-movies, exploitation flicks, and sexploitation films Co-produced, written & directed by Ray Greene; interviewees include Forrest J Ackerman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Dick Miller & Vampira Pathfinder Home Ent. color DVD [12/2003] for $19.98 full credits at IMDb |
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"Hispanic Hollywood" docu feature [2000] and "Fiesta" [1941]
Passport color DVD [5/2000] for $12.99 Passport color VHS [5/2000] 2 tapes / out of prodn/used documentary not listed at IMDb "Fiesta" musical film [Hal Roach/United Artists Nov 1941] Produced, directed & choreographed by LeRoy Prinz; starring Anne Ayars, Jorge Negrete, George Givot, Armida, Antonio Moreno, José Arias & the Guadalajara Trio; full credits at IMDb |
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"Before Walt" historic animation compilation [1999] by Ray Pointer
Inkwell Images b&w DVD [5/2006] out of prodn/scarce Inkwell Images b&w VHS [11/99] out of prodn/scarce 60-minute documentary & bonus 45-minutes; featured animated shorts include "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" [Vitagraph 1906] by J. Stuart Blackton; "Fantasmagorie" [France 1907] by Émile Cohl; "Little Nemo" [1911] by Winsor McCay; "Dud Leaves Home" [J.R. Bray Studios 1919] by Wallace A. Carlson; "The Circus" [1920] from Fleischer Studios; "Aesop's Fables: Barnyard Olympics" [1924] by Paul Terry; "Felix All Puzzled" [1924] starring Felix the Cat; and "Alice Solves The Puzzle" [1925] by Walt Disney; compilation program not listed on IMDb |
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"Golden Age of Silent Films" box set [1998]
Marathon b&w VHS [8/98] 7 tapes - out of prodn/used includes John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1920], Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro" [1920], Mary Pickford in "Pollyanna" [1920], Rudolph Vantino in "Blood and Sand" [1922], Lon Chaney in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" [1923], Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" [1925], and Buster Keaton in "The General" [1927] |
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"Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" [Photoplay 1995 mini-series] Produced by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill; narrated by Kenneth Branagh & Jean-Louis Trintignant Image Ent b&w/color DVD [5/2000] for $44.99 Cinema Guild VHS [3/98] 3 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking" [P.B.S. 1995]
Image Ent. Fox b&w/color DVD [8/2000] 2 disks out of prodn/used Fox b&w/color VHS [3/95] 5 tapes / out of prodn/used series credits at IMDb Directed by Alain Klarer; episodes include "The Hollywood Style", "The Star", "Romantic Comedy", "Film Noir", "The Studio System", "Film In The Television Age", "The Western", "The Combat Film", "The Film School Generation" & "The Edge of Hollywood" |
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"Landmarks of Early Film" Volume 1 [1994]
Image Ent b&w DVD [7/98] for $26.99 includes Edison Kinestoscope films (1894-96), films by the brothers Lumière (1895-97), films by French special effects pioneer Georges Méliès, documentary 'actualities' {1897-1910), and selected short films from 1903 to 1913 "Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 2: The Magic of Méliès" [1994] Image Ent b&w/color DVD [3/99] for $26.99 includes the documentary "Georges Melies: Cinema Magician" [1978] and 15 restored shorts |
American  Film  Institute
100  Years  Celebration
now on a separate page
Pioneers  of  the  Cinema
Dorothy Arzner • Theodore W. Case • George Eastman
Wm. Friese-Greene • Louis Le Prince • Lumière Brothers
Georges Méliès • Eadweard Muybridge • Edwin S. Porter
Wm. Desmond Taylor • Erich von Stroheim
• and others...
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...plus Magic Lantern's individual pages for
Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]    ¸    Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948]    ¸    D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]
Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924]    ¸    Buster Keaton [1895-1966]
Harold Lloyd [1893-1971]    ¸    Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951]
Hal Roach [1892-1992]    ¸    Mack Sennett [1880-1960]
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"The Story of The Kelly Gang" [1906 Australian silent feature]
inventor Thomas Edison's "Frankenstein" [1910 silent]
"Zudora" [1914 20-chapter serial]
"A Daughter of The Gods" [1916 silent] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Daughter_of_the_Gods
"Cleopatra" [1917 silent] starring Theda Bara
WWI propaganda film "The Kaiser: Beast of Berlin" [1918 silent]
Walt Disney's first cartoon "Little Red Riding Hood" [1922 silent]
the 40-reel version of Eric von Stroheim's "Greed" [1924 silent]
D.W. Griffith's "That Royle Girl" [1925 silent] with W.C. Fields
"The Great Gatsby" [1926]
"Camille" [1927 silent] starring Norma Talmadge
"London After Midnight" [1927 silent] starring Lon Chaney
"The Divine Woman" [1928 silent] starring Greta Garbo
von Stroheim's "The Honeymoon" [1928], second half/sequel to "The Wedding March" [1928]
Ernst Lubitsch's "The Patriot" [1928] with Emil Jannings
"Heart Trouble" [1929 late silent] directed by & starring Harry Langdon
"Song of The West" [1930 all-Technicolor musical]
"No, No Nanette" [1930 early talkie]
"The Rogue Song" [1930 color musical] with Laurel & Hardy
"Convention City" [1933 comedy]
  | "Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation In The United States" [1992] by Anthony Slide McFarland & Co. 8¾x6 pb [8/2000] for $30.00 McFarland & Co. hardcover [2/92] out of print/used |
  | "Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared" [1996] by Frank T. Thompson Carol Publng pb [3/96] out of print/used 27 subjects/chapters include: "The Immortal Alamo" [1911]; "Saved From The Titanic" [1912] starring survivor & actress Dorothy Gibson; "The Battle of Gettysburg" [1913] from Thomas Ince; "Damaged Goods" [1914]; "Purity" [1916]; "A Daughter of The Gods" [1916]; "The Conqueror" [1917] directed by Raoul Walsh; "Cleopatra" [1917] starring Theda Bara; "Roped" [1919] directed by John Ford; "The Knickerbocker Buckaroo" [1919] with Douglas Fairbanks; "The Miracle Man" [1919] starring Lon Chaney; "Hollywood" [1923] with an all-star cast; "Pied Piper Malone" [1924]; Edna Ferber's "So Big" [1925]; "The Flaming Frontier" [1926] starring Hoot Gibson; "That Royle Girl" [1926 lost film] from D.W. Griffith; "The Rough Riders" [1927] directed by Victor Fleming; "Time To Love" [1927]; "Beau Sabreur" [1928] starring Gary Cooper; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" [1928]; "The Last Moment" [1928]; "The Divine Woman" [1928] starring Greta Garbo; "Legion of The Condemned" [1928] starring Gary Cooper; "Ladies of The Mob" [1928] starring Clara Bow; "The Patriot" [1928] from Ernst Lubitsch; "The Case of Lena Smith" [1929] directed by Josef von Sternberg; and "4 Devils" [1929] starring Janet Gaynor |
  | "Missing Reels: Lost Films of American & European Cinema" [2000] by Harry Waldman McFarland & Co. 9¾x7 pb [10/2007] for $35.00 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7½ hardcover [7/2000] for $55.00 |
  | "Moving Pictures and Classic Images: Memories of Forty Years In The Vintage Film Hobby" [2004] by Samuel K. Rubin, Foreword by Leonard Maltin McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [3/2004] for $39.95 out of print/used |
  | "America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide To The Landmark Movies In The National Film Registry" [2009] by Daniel Eagan Continuum Publng Group 9¾x7 pb [10/2009] for $17.96 Continuum Publng Group 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $97.06 |
List of Research & Preservation Archives
Assn. of Moving Image Archivists
A.T.A.S. Archive of American Television
U.C.L.A. Film & TV Archive
U.C. Berkeley Pacific Film Archive
U.S.C Moving Image Archive
archivists listed at Silent Era website
Looser Than Loose / Media Services {is restoring silent films + home movies restoration service}
Lobster Films [est. 1985] of Paris, France
NitrateVille Forum: Talking, Collecting & Preserving Classic Film
      
      
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