List of my research files

I hold information on the following subjects related to early cinema, filed in a number of filing cabinets and box files. This list I'm afraid contains some abbreviations and too-brief entries which might not be immediately clear to those who don't understand my 'system'. All I can say is that this preliminary list should at least indicate, to those who are interested, the scope of my files. NB. An asterisk indicates an especially extensive file of information. On the other hand, some other files are quite sparse. I compiled this list in around 2009, so there will be some change since then… 


1913 (re film in the year 1913)
Acting, genl (incl differences from stage acting; credits; gesture; extras; salaries)
Actors, famous
Actors, stars (stardom)
Actors, stunts
Ads – municipal (advertising of towns, regions)
Ads; advertising* (advertising by film)
Africa – filming in
Africa, sub-Saharan
Agriculture
Air / Aerial  (films shot from/re aircraft, planes etc.)
Alexander Black
Amateur (See also Memento; Mutoscope)
Animal films (incl menageries, lion tamers (dompteurs))
Anthropology
Archives
Armat and Jenkins
Asia – filming in
Astronomy
Audience  (incl aud behaviour, snacking, ‘spooning’ (smooching))
Audience psychology
Australia
Austria
Background and scenery (Film systems to provide ‘back-plates’)
Balkan countries (incl Bosnia; Bulgaria; Herzegovina; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Yugoslavia – incl Draga assassination; Manaki bros)
Balkan Wars
BFI (history of, etc)
Biograph – Boer War
Biograph – mutoscope (Incl the viewer devices)
Biograph – Pope
Biograph – subway lighting
Biograph – technical (technology)
Black people  (in USA etc)
Boer War
Brabin*
Brighton
British picture palaces
Bullfights
Burlingham
Cabiria
Camera obscura
Cameras
Camerawork
Canada + Klondike (incl Mrs Hitchcock)
Cartoon animation
Cartoons and Paintings re early film
Cartoons/illustrations re early film
Censorship
Censorship – regulation
Chasers
Chases
Children (esp in audience)
China
Christmas
Christmas Eve Tragedy, 1908
Chronophotography
Cin genl  (+ influence of cinema)
Cinema in rest of world
Cinema in UK
Cinemas / cinema buildings (incl rinks, cinema accessories)
Circus; wild-west shows
Class (i.e. social class)
Close-ups (incl facials; iris masks)
Colonial
Colour – hand and stencil
Colour – Kinemacolor
Comedy (incl Chaplin)
Competitions
Composition/angle
Conferences
Consciousness: effect of film (modernism and early film)
Copyright
Cornwall: early cinema in
Costume; make-up; décor
Crime (copycat) (+ law and punishment)
Criticism (anti and pro cinema)
Cure or damage by film (incl eyesight/blind)
Czechoslovakia
Dance (incl tango and apaches)
Day, Will
Deaf  (incl lipreading)
Death/memento (incl funerals)
Deep staging
Dental
Detective films
Direction
Disasters – films re (volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, accidents, etc)
Dissolves and fades
Dogs
Film History, issues of – publication files
Donisthorpe
Doyen [medical]
Dreyfus
Duels
Duping
Durbar Kinemacolor
Early articles
Early cinema inventions (incl Patterson)
Early jnls + books (incl editors names)
Editing* (incl splicing)
Educational
Emigration – film ads for (Emigrad)
Emigration – filmed ads for
Endings
Entertainment, genl (incl amusement arcades)
Enthusiasm
Equipment for filming (filters; iris; clap board; tripods)
Evidence (via film)
Exactus Co. (US 1913 worldwide survey of film conditions)
Exhibition
Exhibition in UK
Expeditions/Exploration
Expos, incl exhibitions
Exposure, film sensitivity
Fairs/fairground (funfairs [under ‘exhib’])
Fakes
Fam Afghan and Iran
Fam George V
Fam Morocco
Fam* (‘Fam’ = famous royalty, incl nobility and society)
Famlit – genl (Famous literary figures, incl, e.g. Tolstoy and Max Beerbohm)
Famlit – particular writers
Far East – region
Fashion (Beauty contests; baby and fashion shows)
Features (longer films)
Feuillade*
Film – non-flam
Film base [celluloid etc]
Film schools; film societies/clubs
Film style
Films – major
Films d’Art
Films on films [FoF]
Films, named – France
Films, named – Germany
Films, named – UK
Films, named – USA
Fin de siècle
Fires (+ firefighting)
Fires – as film plot
First reactions to viewing films (re trains)
First reactions to viewing films* (re other themes)
Flicker and static (and other film defects, decay, damage)
France – early articles
France – Gaumont
France – general
France – Lumières
France – Méliès
France – Pathé
France – regional*
Freemasonry
Friese-Greene (F-G)*
Furniss
Future doubt and confidence in cinema
FX (Sound effects)
Gaumont (esp. UK branch - Bromhead)
GB beaten in film business (re British failure in early years, and reasons for)
General
Genl hist of precin
Germany
Government use
Great Train Robbery (GTR)
Hales Tours (+ phantom rides and tracking*)
Hangings, executions, cruelty
Hats (big hats annoy audience)
Hawaii
Health education / civic education ((Routzahn in US, WIHA in UK))
Heyl ; Sellers
Historians – Film
Historical scenes (incl Yale series)
Historiography + historical evidence
Hungary
Hunting/hunts
Iberia – Portugal
Iberia – Spain
India (incl Durbar Kinemacolor)
India* (Preservation problems: film decay in tropics. Social issues, politics, religion, missionaries, Visual Instruction Committee (Mackinder). Maharajas -- films for. British pioneers in India: Atherton, Jamilly, Knowles, Stevenson. Kearton in India. Colonial production: including Urban, FB Stewart. Later cinema: Zils etc. Kinetoscope: Harley in India, 1895. Pre cinema: including theatre. Indian stills photography. First Indian film shows. Church Missionary Society - Edward Cash films for, in India. Film exhibition in India: Bombay, Calcutta, etc. Film in education: Baroda examples etc. Indian themes in western-made films. Phalke.)
Indian subcontinent (North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal etc. Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Burma.)
Industrial (+ occupations)
Industrial – 1916
Industrial – safety training
Industrial – Taylorism
Industrial – training
Intermittents*
Intertitles
Invention, and process of
Ireland
Italy (and Greece)
Itinerant
Japan
Jewish
Junk film
Kinetoscope*
Labs – developing and optical printing
Language (metaphorical use of film terms)
Language, linguistics
Lantern (Exhibition practice. )
Lantern – early development (Early lantern -- including phantasmagoria. )
Lantern – genl  (Illustrations of lantern use. Lantern in education and science. UK showmen and companies. USA showmen and companies. Politics and advertising. Religious use - in West. Religious use - in developing world- missionaries. Lantern in foreign countries.)
Lantern – Life model and song slides (Bamforth; British life model; American song slides; other countries life model.)
Lantern – literary and metaphor (Famous literary figures and lantern. Lantern as metaphor.)
Lantern + cin
Latin America – filming in
Latin America (alpha by country)
Le Roy/ Latham
Lenses
LePrince
Libraries re film
Library of Congress non-fiction lists, 1912- .
Life of an American Fireman (LOAF)
Lighting
Linder, Max
Local films
Location butting in (i.e. passers-by think film action is real)
Low countries  (Netherlands/Holland; Belgium)
Lumières in GB
Magic / magicians
Mantle, J. Gregory (clergyman-cameraman)
Medical*
Mediterranean – misc countries
Melbourne Cooper/G.A. Smith
Melodrama
Memento
Metaphoric use of cinema words
Middle East

The Miracle

Misc uses – fashion; car speeds; train cinemas
Mistakes and continuity
Moral
Mountains – films shot in or about
Museums re film
Music Hall
Muybridge; Marey *
Myrioramas
Names, UK*  (listed alpha by individuals and companies, e.g. Bamforth; Haddow, Thomas; Urban)
Narrative [or fiction]
Natural history (incl Pike, Oliver; animal films and menageries; Bees and beekeeping; birds)
New Zealand
News – general and news films
News events – Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911
News events – Edward VII’s 1910 funeral
News events – Jubilee, 1897  (Qu Victoria’s)
News events genl. (incl Cailloux, Crippen, Bonnot, Thaw/White, etc)
Newspapers – films re, etc
Newsreels
Newsreels – French* (Lists of items from Gaumont, Éclair and Pathé (in Ciné Journal))
Niagara – films at or about
Non-fiction in general
North Africa  (Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia)
Novelisations
O. Winter
Oceania (South Seas)
One-shot aesthetics (early aesthetics of early films, like praise for being ‘full of animation’)
Opera
Other arts (in relation to film)
Padding
Pageants; parades; beauty contests; ceremonies/customs
Palestine
Panama Canal  (films of or about it)
Panning
Panoramas
Paul, R.W.
Percep/psychol re film
Perception
Persistence devices – stroboscope/zootrope
Personnel for exhibition (incl. Doormen)
Philippine war – Biograph, Ackerman
Philippines (incl missionary use)
Photodrama of Creation
Photog/proj/persis principles combined (incl Du Hauron)
Photography – general
Photography – in fiction
Photography – instantaneous
Photography – trick etc
Picture ballad shows
Pioneers
Pioneers – Lumieres etc (or in country files)
Places – London (incl. Hampstead)
Plays with cinema as storyline (e.g. Lady of Ostend; + theatrical spoofs of cin)
Poems/poetry and cinema
Poland
Poles and polar filming* (incl Shackleton and Scott expeds)
Political use (incl Propaganda)
Political*
Politics (political parties and politicians; labour/industrial action; poverty)
Pornography (incl risqué films)
Poses plastiques (Living pictures)
Pre cinema arts
Pre-Cinema - related to  (Phonograph/gramophone/audio)
Prehistory of film
Price (of seats; production; etc)
Prisons  (films shown in)
Producers
Programme
Projection
Psychology (incl use by psychol; insane; psychiatry)
Publicity  (incl. posters and trailers)
Puppetry (+ marionettes)
Quo Vadis
Rapid screenings (shown soon after filming)
Realism
Recreation surveys
Related  – Urban history
Relig – Catholic and Pope
Relig – Church Army
Relig – CMS
Relig – genl
Relig – Methodist
Relig – missionary use
Relig – Mormons
Relig – Passion Play
Relig – Salvation Army
Relig* (Church Army etc)
Rental
Revivals
Reynaud
Rider Noble (esp  reIlenden filming, 1904)
Rosenthal (+ see CPR)
Russia/Soviet
Russo-Japanese War (incl. Rogers, George; Japan)
Scandinavia/Baltics
Science, incl Microcin images  (bacteria etc)
Scotland
Screens
Scripts - film  (incl dialogue on set (i.e. actors speaking lines))
Seas  (incl fishing, whaling, and shipwrecks)
Serial films (Pearl White etc)
Serial image
Serial image with photography
Shadow shows
Shakespeare
Skladanowsky
Smellies etc. (expanded cinema)
Song slides/ Life model (see lantern)
Sound – change to (i.e. late 1920s intro of sound)
Sound – commentating, lecturing (the lecturer) 

Sound effects - see FX

Sound – music* (incl music/film theory, use of music on set, etc)
Sound – sync*
Sound – voicing genl
Sound – voicing, names (Selsior, Williams, Hemsley, etc)
Sound genl
South-East Asia (region and misc countries incl. Indonesia)
Speed (of taking and proj) (ie. frames per second)
Sport (incl athletics; baseball; bullfights; cricket; gambling; golf; regattas (Henley); rowing; sailing; soccer/football; swimming; tennis;)
Sport – fights (incl boxing and wrestling)
Sport – horserace (horse events/ racing;)
Sport – Olympics
Stereo; 3-D (incl wide screen)
Stories and prose – American
Stories and prose – British, 1896-1900
Stories and prose – British, misc * (incl GR Sims)
Stories and prose – French (incl Auvergnate)
Stories and prose – other countries
Studios
Subsea  (filming underwater)
Suffrage*
Switzerland
Telephone
Television, and sci fi - prediction of
Temperance
Terminology (of film)
Thailand (Siam)
Theatre – genl relations w early cinema
Theatre – Kinoplastikon
Theatre combo – Hemsley
Theatre combo – Selsior
Theatre combo – Williams, Eric
Theatre combo (ie. combined stage/film show)
Theorists/critics – early
Theory (2002- )
Theory, recent (and crit of theory)
Third dimension of film  (i.e. intermediality)
Time lapse
Titanic (incl Harbeck)
Trav – general travel-based filming/films (incl Lauste; see Harbeck (in Titanic))
TravC (travelling cameramen)– Burlingham
TravC – Kearton
TravC – Mantle
TravC – McKenzie
TravC – Ricalton
TravC – Schomburgk
TravC – Sintzenich
TravC = Travelling cameramen  (and cameramen in genl)
Tricks
Trust, the & Paris 1909 conferences
Turkey/Ottoman (incl Syria)
UK, misc
US Indians (i.e. native Americans)
US West – filming in
USA – early articles
USA – general
USA – names and companies (incl e.g. Kalem)
USA regional*
Vehicles – on ship
Vehicles – on train
Vehicles – Rail/train * (and CPR)
Vehicles/transport  (car/train ; bicycle)
Viewfinders
Wales
War (incl Alfred West, and war correspondents)
War (Early filmed wars, filed by war)
War (misc early filmed wars)
Westerns*
White slavery
Willie Sanders  (+ ‘child stars’ in adjacent file)
Women*
X-rays
Z – later technology (lighting; zoom lenses; deep focus)

©2009