Early Motion-Picture Companies Although "Edison's vitascope" was the first successful screen machine in the American amusement field, competing projectors and enterprises began to appear within a month of its Koster 16 December 1896, P. 7. 45. At...

The Lid Comes off It is not uncommon to see licensed and independent films on the same program these days. -"The Answer Man," Moving Picture World, 25 October 1913, P. 375 Two series of events in 1912 marked the beginning of a realignment of the film...

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most...

A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897-1915. By Richard Brown and Barry Anthony. Wiltshire, U.K.: Flick Books, 2001. xiv + 345 pp. Appendix, bibliography. Cloth, $65.50. ISBN 0-948-91127-1. Reviewed by Gregory D. Black The first...