Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
Contents:
Appendix 5. Michael Harvey -- Chapter 1. The kinetoscope legal action. Chapter 2. The arrival of the kinetoscope in Britian and early developments -- Chapter 3. Cameras and conflict -- Chapter 4. The legal and intellectual property context -- Chapter 5. Marketing the kinetoscope in Britain -- Chapter 6. Commercial decline and new beginnings -- Chapter 7. Edison's latest -- Chapter 8. The first British films -- Chapter 9. A premiere at the Nag's head -- Chapter 10. Magic, magnates and galvanic forces -- Chapter 11. Birt acres and the Kaiser's kinetoscope -- Chapter 12. Transatlantic filming -- Chapter 13. Making an exhibition -- Chapter 14. The machine as evidence : the survival of otherwise of the British kinetoscopes / Michael Harvey -- Appendix 1. Kinetoscope exhibitions in the UK, 1894-1895 -- Appendix 2. Paul/Acres and Acres films of 1895 -- Appendix 3. 'Outcasts of London' and the first portrayal of movie-making on stage -- Appendix 4. British dealers in kinetoscopes -- Appendix 5. The kinetoscope legal action.
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