Charles Musser

Before Hollywood

Before the Movies

Before the nickelodeon

Boom and Bust

Charles Sheeler

Documentary Film Reader

Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900

High-class moving pictures

History of the American cinema

Motion picture catalogs by American producers and distributors, 1894-1908

Oscar Micheaux and his circle

Our Family Album

Politicking and emergent media

Resisting images

The Documentary Film Reader

The emergence of cinema

Thomas A. Edison and his kinetographic motion pictures