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EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA IN TRANSITION _-11• •- WISCONSIN General Editors David Bordwell. Vance Kepley. Jr. studies In film Supervising Editor Kristin Thompson Film Essays and Criticism Rudolf Amheim Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies Edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I Leslie Midkiff DeBauche Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States Douglas Gomery lnvers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945 Edited by Jan-Christopher Horak The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942 Lea Jacobs Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film Kathryn Kalinak Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913 Charlie Keil Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s Donald Kirihara The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939 Ruth Vasey The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918 Denise J. Youngblood EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA IN TRANSITION STORY, STYLE, AND FILMMAKING, 1907-1913 Charlie Keil The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2001 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any fo=at or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written pe=ission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keil, Charlie. Early American cinema in transition: story, style, and filmmaking, 1907-1913/ Charlie Keil. 320 pp. cm.-(Wisconsin studies in film) Filmography: p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-17360-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-299-17364-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures-United States-History. 2. Motion picture industry-United States-History. I. Title. II. Series. PNI993.S.U6 K39 2001 791.43'0973'09041-dc21 2001003112 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-17364-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) For Cathy CONTENTS Tables IX Acknowledgments Xl 1 Introduction 3 2 "Boom Time in the Moving-Picture Business": Industrial Structure, Production Practices, and the Trade Press 20 3 "A Story Vital and Unified in Its Action": The Demands of Narrative 45 4 "An Immeasurably Greater Freedom": Time and Space in Transitional Cinema 83 5 ''The Modem Technique of the Art": The Style of Transitional Cinema 125 6 Analyzing Transition: Six Sample Films 175 7 Conclusion 205 Appendix A: Notes on Method 217 Appendix B: Shot-by-Shot Analyses for Chapter 6 220 Notes 236 Filmography: Viewed Titles, 1907-1913 270 Works Cited 287 Film Index 296 General Index 301 VII TABLES 3.1. Intertitle use, 1907-1913 62 5.1. Yearly comparison of average number of shots per 1,000-foot reel 173 5.2. Yearly comparison of highest number of shots per 1,000-foot reel 173 A.1. Sample devised by year and production company 218 IX
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