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| Introduction: The Man Who Made Movies | |
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| Introducing Mr. Dickson | |
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| Family Matters | |
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| 1883-1888 With Edison, Electricity and Iron Ore | |
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| Goerck Street | |
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| The Business of Invention: Electricity, Ore and the Phonograph | |
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| Personal Matters | |
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| From a Ladies' Watch to a Locomotive: The New Laboratory | |
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| 1888-1893 The Quest for the Kinetoscope-Kinetograph | |
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| The Germ of an Idea | |
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| The Beginning of a Quest: The Kineto-Phonograph | |
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| Trials, Errors, Mergers, Shenanigans and Speculation: Cylinders, Electricity, Phonographs and Iron | |
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| Competition! | |
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| A Certain Precipitate of Knowledge: The Kinetograph, Spring 1889 | |
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| Edison Triumphs in Europe and Dickson has a Busy Summer | |
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| "Good Morning, Mr. Edison": The Strip Kinetograph | |
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| Caveat, Film, an Announcement and a Conundrum: The Kineto After Paris | |
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| "We Had a Hell of a Good Time...". Ore Milling and Electricty: Dreams and Reality | |
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| The Nickel-in-the-Slot Phonograph | |
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| "See the Germ Work... Edison 'Out-Edison's Edison" | |
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| Edison's Agent | |
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| "A Method of Taking and Using Photographs". Patenting the Kineto | |
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| "... Unaltered to Date". Creating the Modern Motion Picture | |
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| The Kinetoscope and Black Maria | |
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| 1894-1896 Making Movies and Marketing the Kinetoscope | |
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| Personal Affairs. Pictures, Words and Inventions | |
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| Wizard Edison's Wonderful Instrument: The Kinetoscope | |
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| A Discontented Winter | |
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| Between Careers. Publishing and New Opportunities | |
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| 1896-2003 Biographing: Filming in the States and Abroad | |
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| The Age of Movement. A New Enterprise | |
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| The Playful Specter of the Night. The Biograph on Screen | |
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| Home Again | |
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| The Pope and the Mutoscopes | |
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| News in a Pictorial Way | |
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| The Road to Ladysmith: The Biograph Goes to War | |
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| To Pretoria and Beyond: The Heart of the Biographer at Rest | |
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| 1903-1935 After the Movies: A Laboratory and a Search for a Place in Posterity | |
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| The Hope to See a Bright Future. The W.K-L. Dickson Laboratory | |
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| A Peculiar Memory for Details | |
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| The Grandad of Us All | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |