Source: S.D. Levings, ‘Urban-Smith Kinemacolor Demonstration’, The Nickelodeon, 1 January 1910, pp. 7-9 Text: There is a certain Englishman by the name of Charles Urban, well known to the moving picture industry as a manufacturer of high grade motion picture … Continue reading
Source: Anon. [Thomas Lediard?], The German Spy: or, Familiar letters from a gentleman on his travels thro’ Germany, to his friend in England (London: T. Cooper, 1738), pp. 312-318 Text: Letter XXXIV. Hamburg. SIR, I was just going to make … Continue reading
Source: Anon., ‘A Journey Around the Globe’, Punch, or the London Charivari, vol. 21 (1851), pp. 4-5 Text: We did not even take a carpet-bag, or a tooth-brush, or a clean collar with us. All our luggage consisted of a … Continue reading
Source: Anon., ‘Kinoplastikon: As Seen From the Stalls’, The Bioscope, 8 May 1913, p. 391 Text: The cinematograph industry, from its very inception, has been so prolific of novelties and sensations, that we have now grown almost accustomed to living … Continue reading
Source: Jack Common, Kiddar’s Luck (Glasgow/London: Blackie & Son, 1974 – originally published by Turnstile Press, 1951), pp. 104-107 Text: Our enthusiasms were kindled or quenched often enough by the accident of possession. It was the devil’s own job for … Continue reading
Source: J.P. Mayer, Sociology of Film: Studies and Documents (London: Faber and Faber, 1946), pp. 136-138 Text: Another possibility of getting at the children’s film taste is by listing their answers to question 23 of our questionnaire. They are as … Continue reading
Source: Violet Hunt (with a preface and two additional chapters by Ford Madox Hueffer), The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany (London: Chatto and Windus, 1913), pp. 281-287 Text: I had never seen a cinematograph show until I came to … Continue reading
Source: Basil Peacock, Tinker’s Mufti: Memoirs of a Part-Time Soldier (London: Seeley, 1974) Text: The first entertainment I recall, for which one had to pay, was a panorama display in the town hall. It was mainly educational and consisted of … Continue reading
Source: Leslie Halliwell, Seats in All Parts (London: Granada, 1985), pp. 59-60 Text: When at last the Odeon was ready, the family in its various ways prepared for the excitement of another premiere performance. We were all there, but I … Continue reading
Source: Walter Benjamin (trans. Howard Eiland), Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Cambridge, Mass./London: The Belknap Press of Hardvard University Press, 2006), pp. 42-44 Text: One of the great attractions of the travel scenes found in the Imperial Panorama was that it … Continue reading
