What Happened in the Beginning: Excerpted from the Transactions of the SMPE, Sept. 1925, pp. 63–114

F. H. Richardson

When one seeks to delve into the history of the motion picture industry during the period we usually refer to as “formative”-the space of time during which the inventions upon which the future success of the industry would be based were in process of discovery-one is immediately confronted with many apparently conflicting claims.

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1976-07
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J13271