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"During the short span of the nickelodeon craze (from 1905 to 1909) moviegoers were less than affluent folks. But theatre owneres who desired to make more money wanted a higher class of patrons (in terms of income). By 1910 movie theatre owners had taken direct aim on the emerging American middle class and with them would create the most profitable mass entertainment industry in the history of the United States to that time ... Years later the movies' first home would be recalled with a nostalgic innocence celebrating a populist shrine."
-- Douglas Gomery,
"The Nickelodeon Era,"
in Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States,
(Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press) 1992,
p. 29-30  

 

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Film History

Updated September 24, 2002



 Museums, Exhibits, Databases & Archives
  • NARA Audiovisual Information Locator (NAIL) Database from the National Archives is now publically accessible via the Internet
  • National Film Registry -- Titles [U.S. ]
  • National Museum of Photography, Film & TV - [U.K.]
  • Library of Congress Motion Picture and Television Reading Room - [U.S.]

     General Film Information
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
  • Black Film/White Money, History and Political Economy of African American entree into the U.S. film industry: 1896 to 1992, [book from Rutgers University Press]
  • Movie Poster List: one of many sites offering posters for sale
  • Native Americans In Silent Film [gopher], by Karen C. Lund
  • Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide [Dec. 1994]
  • The Web Wide World of Film Music

     Major Indices of Film Sites
  • CineMedia, by Dan M. Harries
  • A source of movie memories
     
     Pioneers, Actors, Directors & Other Folks
  • Charlie Chaplin, by Glen Pringle
  • The Buster Keaton Home Page, from the Picture Palace
  • Harold Lloyd Home Page, by Annette M. D'Agostino
  • Stars of the Silent Movies, by Glen Pringle
     
     Technologies
  • Path�, a leader in the early history of motion pictures.
  • Early Motion Pictures Home Page from the Library of Congress
  • Silent Movies, by Glen Pringle
     
     Journals
  • Animation Journal

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