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How To Use This Catalog This catalog consists of two parts: Motion Pic- tures, 1894-1912, which is a list of main entries ar- ranged alphabetically under title, and a Claimant Index, which is a list of the claimants of copyright in the motion pictures included in the main section. Motion Pictures, 1894-1912 The items which constitute each entry are given below in the order in which they appear. In gen- eral, the entry consists only of title, name of the claimant of copyright, date of the beginning of the copyright term, and registration number. Other information is included if given in the record books. Explanatory and corrective information not avail- able in the records of the Copyright Office and sup- plied by the compiler, Mr. Howard L. Walls, always appears in brackets. 1. Title. The title is given in the form in which it appears in the record book. The main title is followed, as applicable, by subtitle, alternate title, and translated title. Cross-references from alternate and translated titles are in- cluded in the list. Information which ap- pears in the title in the record book and which relates to the principal player or to the num- ber of parts and scenes is given in a brief state- ment follo\<'ing the title as described above. Sometimes such information includes a nu- meral which may well have had originally some descriptive value but which cannot now be identified, either as a production number, a catalog number, or a number indicating the relationship of the particular film to other films. In many instances, the successive scenes or parts of a motion picture were regis- tered separately, each registration including the main title and the title of the particular part. In such cases the main title is given, followed by other elements in the entry relat- ing to the whole motion picture, and the num- bers and titles of the separate parts are listed below the main part of the entry, each part of the title being followed by information relat- ing to it alone. 2. Name of the claimant. This name is given as it appears in the record book and is immedi- ately preceded by the copyright symbol ©. 3. Date. This date includes the day, month, and year of the beginning of the term of copyright protection and is determined by different re- quirements in the periods separated by the date July 1,1909. Prior to July 1 of that year, the date of the recording in the Copyright Office of the title page of a published work determined the beginning of the term of copy- right protection. During this period the law also provided for the deposit of two copies of the work when published. Because the record of these deposits was not consistently kept in the record books, the information has been omitted from the entries in this catalog. Be- ginning with July 1, 1909, provision was made for copyright protection both of published and of unpublished works in some classes, among which photographs and, later, motion pictures were included. For published works, the date of the beginning of the term of copy- right was determined by the date of publica- tion supplied in the application; for unpub- lished works, by the deposit of one copy in