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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: emergence of cinema
    sub title: the American screen to 1907
  name:
    name part: Musser, Charles.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 613 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  table of contents: Pt. 1. Before cinema -- Toward a history of screen practice -- Thomas Edison and the amusement world -- Projecting motion pictures : invention and innovation -- Pt. 2. The novelty of cinema : 1896-1897 -- The vitascope -- Early motion-picture companies -- The proliferation of motion-picture companies and an assessment of the novelty year -- Pt. 3. The exhibitor plays a creative role : 1897-1900 -- Full-length programs : fights, passion plays, and travel -- Commercial warfare and the Spanish American War : 1897-1898 -- THe film industry achieves modest stability : 1898-1901 -- Pt. 4. The production company assumes creative dominance : 1900-1905 -- A period of commercial crisis : 1900-1903 -- The transition to story films : 1903-1904 -- Cinema flourishes within its existing commercial framework : 1904-1905 -- Pt. 5. The beginnings of the Nickelodeon Era : 1905-1907 -- Nickels count: storefront theaters : 1905-1907 -- Production as the Nickelodeon Era begins : 1905-1907.
  note: Charles Musser.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [529]-544) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Silent films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture industry
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Cinema
    topic: Films (Motion pictures)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Films muets
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Cinéma
    topic: Industrie
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  classification: PN1993.5.U6 H55 1990 vol. 1
  classification: PN1995.75
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History of the American cinema ; v. 1
  identifier: 0684184133 (alk. paper) :
  identifier: 90048307
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 900910
    record change date: 20151026054410.0
    record identifier: in00001831856