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Victorian popular culture. Moving pictures, optical entertainments and the advent of cinema,

Electronic reproduction of a collection of rare books, printed ephemera, programmes, sheet music, cigarette cards, postcards, games, toys and other merchandise relating to the history of moving pictures and cinema in Britain and the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Kit
Language:English
Published: Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2012]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > History > 19th century > Sources.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century > Sources.
Motion picture actors and actresses > History > 20th century > Sources.
Cinematography > History > Sources.
Popular culture > History > 19th century > Sources.
Social history > 19th century > Sources.
Motion picture industry > Great Britain > History > 20th century > Sources.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century > Sources.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Sources.
Amusements > Great Britain > History > Sources.
Printed ephemera > Great Britain.
Panoramas.
Diorama.
Shadow shows.
Scientific recreations.
Optical illusions.
Lantern projection.
Stereoscope.
Optical instruments > Technological innovations.
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Description
Summary:Electronic reproduction of a collection of rare books, printed ephemera, programmes, sheet music, cigarette cards, postcards, games, toys and other merchandise relating to the history of moving pictures and cinema in Britain and the United States.
Item Description:Title from home page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013)
At head of title: Adam Matthew Digital presents a portal for ..
Includes material by or about the following people: Auguste and Louis Lumière, Thomas A. Edison, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Georges Méliès, Eadweard Muybridge, Emile Reynaud, Erich von Stroheim, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Fox Talbot, Buster Keaton, Cecil Hepworth, Rudolph Valentino.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.