Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Marta Braun is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Charles Keil is Director of the Cinema Studies Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto.

Rob King is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History, University of Toronto.

Paul Moore is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Ryerson University.

Louis Pelletier is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, where he is researching the history of film exhibition in Montreal.

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Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema

John Libbey Publishing Ltd.

Contents

Introduction Marta Braun, Charlie Keil, Rob King, Paul Moore and Louis Pelletier, 1, 
PART I CHARITY AND RELIGION, 
Chapter 1 "Neutrality-Humanity": The Humanitarian Mission and the Films of the American Red Cross Jennifer Horne, 11, 
Chapter 2 Early Missionary Filming and the Emergence of the Professional Cameraman Stephen Bottomore, 19, 
Chapter 3 Mission on Screen: the Church Army and its Multi-Media Activities Frank Gray, 27, 
Chapter 4 "Baits to Entrap the Pleasure-Seeker and the Worldling": Charity Bazaars Introduce Moving Pictures to Ireland Denis Condon, 35, 
Chapter 5 Paroles éducatives et religieuses lors des projections de films en France avant 1915 Martin Barnier, 43, 
Chapter 6 Mütter, verzaget nicht! (1911) [Mothers, Despair Not!]: Henny Porten's Promotion for Mothers' Welfare Martin Loiperdinger and Holger Ziegler, 51, 
PART II GOVERNMENT AND CIVICS, 
Chapter 7 The Tsar and The Kinematograph: Film as History and The Chronicle of the Russian Monarchy Oksana Chefranova, 63, 
Chapter 8 "Wheelbarrows" and "Real Soldiers": Advertising, Audiences and War Films of all Varieties Liz Clarke, 71, 
Chapter 9 "What is a Picture?": Film as Defined in British Law Before 1910 Ian Christie, 78, 
Chapter 10 Le cinéma et les élections au Québec: de l'attraction à la banalité Germain Lacasse, 85, 
Chapter 11 A Moving Picture Farce: Public Opinion and the Beginnings of Film Censorship in Quebec Louis Pelletier, 94, 
PART III EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY, 
Chapter 12 Health Instruction on Screen: The Department of Health in New York City, 1909–1917 Marina Dahlquist, 107, 
Chapter 13 John Collier, Thomas Edison and the Educational Promotion of Moving Pictures Amanda R. Keeler, 117, 
Chapter 14 "And They Can See Half-Naked Dancers, Catching Young Men In Their Nets": Teachers and the Cinema in Norway, 1907–1913 Gunnar Iversen, 126, 
Chapter 15 Documentaries, Family Film Nights and the First Film University: The Early Works and Big Ideas of Belgian Film Pioneer Hippolyte De Kempeneer (1876–1944) Gerda Cammaer, 131, 
Chapter 16 The School of the Future or Ganot's Physics?: Edison's Foray into Educational Cinema Oliver Gaycken, 143, 
PART IV SCIENCE AND MAGIC, 
Chapter 17 Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber's Experiment (Edison, 1911) Marsha Orgeron, 153, 
Chapter 18 Dissecting the Medical Training Film Scott Curtis, 161, 
Chapter 19 Corporal Permeability and Shadow Pictures: Reconsidering Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) Amy E. Borden, 168, 
Chapter 20 Eroticism and Death: The Skeleton in the Trick Film Murray Leeder, 176, 
Chapter 21 Magies en images, les prestidigitateurs et la machine Frédéric Tabet, 184, 
PART V ART AND AESTHETICS, 
Chapter 22 Early Film Colour, Today and Yesterday Charles O'Brien, 195, 
Chapter 23 Salvage Ethnography and the Exoticisation of Decay in Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate and Bill Morrison's Decasia Nadia Bozak, 200, 
Chapter 24 Picture Craft, Visual Education and the Lantern: A Lecture Fantasy Kaveh Askari, 207, 
Chapter 25 The Scope of Those Scopes: Production Diversity for the Mutoscope and Biograph During the Movies' Early Years Paul C. Spehr, 214, 
Chapter 26 The High-Stakes History of the French Camera Operators' Union before the First World War Priska Morrissey, 223, 
PART VI EXHIBITION AND SHOWMANSHIP, 
Chapter 27 Les séries culturelles de la conférence-avec-projection et de la projection-avec-boniment: continuités et ruptures André Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier, 233, 
Chapter 28 Les "conférenciers de cinéma" en France (1896–1930): Historique à travers différents lieux de projection, genres filmiques et réseaux Thierry Lecointe, 239, 
Chapter 29 Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l'Apollo de Düsseldorf Frank Kessler et Sabine Lenk, 247, 
Chapter 30 Royals, Rembrandts and Luxors: Patterns and Clusters in the Nomenclature of Dutch Cinemas André van der Velden, 255, 
Chapter 31 Local Showmanship in the Early Feature Era: The Case of Stanley Mastbaum Joel Frykholm, 263, 
Chapter 32 A Transformative Moment: Samuel Rothafel and the Rise of Multi-Class Moviegoing in the Midwest, 1911–1913 Ross Melnick, 271, 
PART VII COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE, 
Chapter 33 "This Splendid Temple": Watching Movies in the Wanamaker Department Store Caitlin McGrath, 281, 
Chapter 34 "Boost Your Town in the Movies": Municipal Film Companies in the United States, 1910–1917 Martin L. Johnson, 288, 
Chapter 35 Early Cinema and the Public Sphere of the Neighbourhood Meeting Hall: The Longue Durée of Working-Class Sociability Judith Thissen, 297, 
Chapter 36 Trans-Inter-National Public Spheres Wolfgang Fuhrmann, 307, 
Chapter 37 Turning the Social Problem into Performance: Slumming and Screen Culture in Victorian Lantern Shows Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek, 315, 
Editors and contributors, 325, 
Index of Films, 329, 
Index of Names, 332,