The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
00087
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Cfje C&eatre CHAPTER II While a single volume is wholly inadequate to reveal the scope and immensity of an industry which, while the work is in process of preparation, is expanding to overwhelming proportions, the author hopes to present as typical illustrations of the general progress in film institutions, a description of those representative organizations which inaugurated their activities in the earliest days of motion picture exploitation, and of these the Vitagraph Company of America is, indeed, a remarkable example. Starting, like many others, exploiting merely its apparatus, it is but fair to state that following the vogue of the Cinematograph and Biograph, and before the period when every vaudeville theatre was wont to give its own nam.e to the projecting machine, the Vitagraph was in more general use, at least in the East and North, than any of the countless 'graphs and 'scopes which for nearly ten years were exploited in theatres, museums and wherever public entertainment was a factor, and long after the period when clavers from the regular stage entered the studios and changed the entire output on the screen, the Vitagraph was still feat