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!a! HISTORY O F THE AMERICAN CINEMA Volume 3 - 1915 1938 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA CHARLES HARPOLE, GENERAL EDITOR 3 A N EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT: THE AGE O F THE SILENT FEATURE PICTURE 1915 - 1998 Richard Koszarski CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MACMILLAN L I B M Y REFERENCE USA Simon & Schuster Macmillan NEW YORK Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International LONDON MEXICO CITY NEW DELHI SINGAPORE SYDNEY TORONTO Copyright O iggo by Richard Koszarski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koszarski, Richard. An evening's entertainment: the age of the silent feature picture. 1915-1928 1 Richard Koszarski. p. cm.-(History of the American cinema; v. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-684-18415-X (alk. paper) 1. Silent films-United States-History and criticism. 2. Motion pictures-United States-History. 3. Motion picture industry- United States-History. I. Title. 11. Series. PNlgg3.5.U6H55 vol. 3 [PNlgg5.751 791.43'0973 4 ~ 2 0 179 '-43'09731 90-48305 CIP ISBN 0-684-18415-X Charles Scribner's Sons An Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019-6785 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. Impression Printed in the United States of America Advisory Board Coordinators IANJ ARVIE E. ANN KAPLAN York Uniuersity State University of New York at Stony Brook JOSEPHL . ANDERSON DANIELJ . LEAB WGBH, Boston Seton HaU Uniuersity JAMESL EAHY TINOT . BALIO University of Wisconsin-Madison Slade School of Fine Art, London JAYL EYDA~ EILEENB OWSER New York Uniuersity Museum of Modern Art JOHNM ERCER HENRYS . BREITROSE Southern Illinois Uniuersity at Stanford University Carbondale PETERJ . BUKALSKI Southern Illinois University at PETERM ORRIS Edwardsuille York Uniuersity NOEL BURCH JOHNE . O'CONNOR JACKC . ELLIS New Jersey Institute of Technology Northwestern University EDWARDS . PERRY RAYMONDFI ELDING Middlebury CoUege Florida State University VLADAP ETRIC DONALDF REDERICKSEN Haruard Uniuersity Cornell University RAYMOND RAVAR Centre International de Liaison des MICHAELG LENNY Ecoles de Cinema et de Television, RONALDG OTTESMAN Brussels Uniuersity of Southern California ROBERTR OSEN JOHNG . HANHARDT Uniuersity of Calt$ornia, Los Angeles Whitney Museum of American Art DONALDE . STAPLES LEWISJ ACOBS Uniuersity of North Texas GARTHJ OWETT ALAN WILLIAMS University of Houston Rutgers Uniuersity JOHN B. KUIPER VITALY ZHDAN University of North Texas VGIK State Film School, Moscow The Cinema History Project and the History of the Ametican Cinema have been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. Contents Preface An Industry and an Art I Going to the Movies 2 3 Corporate Organization 4 Making Movies 5 Technology 6 The Show 7 Watching the Screen 8 The Filmmakers g The Stars lo The Envelope, Please List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Picture Sources General Index Index of Films
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