Early cinema

Filmmakers

• Ottomar Anschütz
• Alice Guy Blaché
• Jenő Janovics
• Jan Kříženecký
• Aleksandar Lifka
• Lumière brothers
• Yanaki and Milton Manaki
• Étienne-Jules Marey
• Gheorghe Marinescu
• Bolesław Matuszewski
• Paul Menu
• Oskar Messter
• Eduard Schreiber
• Max Skladanowsky

Publications

• Iris: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound 2(1): "Archives, Document, Fiction: Film Before 1907", 1984, 152 pp. Contributions by André Gaudreault, Jon Gartenberg, Patrick G. Laughney, Thomas Guillaudeau, Charles Musser, André Gaudreault, Roland Cosandey, Barry Salt, Jean Mottet, Tom Gunning, Noël Burch, and Marguerite Engberg. (French),(English)

• Maite Conde, Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil, University of California Press, 2018, 310 pp, ARG.

• Jiří Anger (ed.), Digitální Kříženecký. Nový život prvních českých filmů, Prague: Národní filmový archiv, 2023, 525 pp. Publisher. (Czech)

• Bibliography on WFPP

Resources

• Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, a guide to over 300 leading figures in Victorian cinema, defined as filmmaking in its broadest sense from the first glimmerings in the 1870s to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901. Maintained by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan.

• Women Film Pioneers Project, a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. Launched 2013 by Jane Gaines a.o.

• The Richard Balzer Collection: Phenakistascopes, Thaumatropes, Zoetropes, etc.

• A selection of Phenakistascope and Zoetrope strips converted to animated GIFs

See also

Experimental film

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