A Victorian Film Enterprise. The history of the British Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1897-1915

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Deals with the very early production and exhibition of 'films', relating the history of the British business and its associations with its sometime owner and associate, the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. Chapters include: 'Adjusting the focus'; 'Beginning of a film enterprise'; 'The regional Mutoscope companies'; 'The social impact of the Mutoscope'; The British Mutoscope & Biograph Co'; 'Decline and a new beginning'; 'The exploitation and reception of Biograph's non-fiction films'; 'Biograph's approach to the fiction film'; 'British Mutoscope & Biographic Co films, 1897-1907'; 'Subject index to films'. Appendices include a list of Biograph shows, 1897-1903, and a listing of Mutoscope shops/parlours existing in 1899