INDEX

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16mm film

35mm film

Abel, Richard

actualities

Adopts a Baby series. See also Interstate Film Producers

advertising, film

of camera equipment

by theaters

in local films

municipal. See industrial films; industrial romances; municipal booster films

“Advertising for Exhibitors”. See also Sargent, Epes Winthrop

Agfa-Ansco. See also 16mm film

Allen, Robert C.

amateur. See home talent

Amateur Cinema League (ACL). See also Amateur Movie Makers/Movie Makers

amateur fiction films

avant-garde films and. See also 16mm film

Amateur Movie Makers/Movie Makers

Amateur Service Productions

Amateur Theater Guild

American Film Institute-National Endowment for the Arts (AFI-NEA) grants

American Citizen, An

archival collections

archive, the

Aronson, Michael

Arvold, Alfred. See also Little Country Theater

ballyhoo. See also exploitation (publicity stunt)

banal localism

relation to banal nationalism

Barker, Melton

Barnum, P.T. See also confidence men

Biograph

Birth of a Nation, The

blackface

Blissveldt Romance, The

booster films. See municipal booster films

Bordwell, David

Bottomore, Stephen

Bunny, John

business culture

cameras. See exhibitor cameras; small-gauge cameras

Carson, Robert M.

Cedar Valley Romance, A

cinema: historical significance of

institutionalization of. See also classical era cinema

transitional era cinema

civic films

civic organizations. See also fraternal service organizations

civil rights

Civil War

classical era cinema

look of

Cliffside, North Carolina

confidence men

Country Life Commission

Cram, Margaret Showalter

Cramer, Adella. See also Amateur Theater Guild

Crossroads series. See also First National Exhibitor’s Circuit

Cudia, Salvatore

de Certeau, Michel

Dewey, John

Doane, Mary Anne

East Is West

Edison, Thomas

Elks Lodge

Elsaesser, Thomas

empathy

Entrikin, J. Nicholas

Eskin, A. Lincoln

exhibitor cameras

exhibitors

exploitation (publicity stunt). See also ballyhoo

exploitation managers

Fifty Thousand Feet of Kansas

film: as commodity

narrative fiction

film industry

consolidation in Hollywood

localization of

Movie Queen’s mockery of

in New York

nontheatrical

film production

amateur

booster

Hollywood

itinerant

local

film technology

Finch, Flora

First National Exhibitor’s Circuit

exploitation staff

folk drama

Fraser, Nancy

Frick, Carolyn

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H.

fraternal service organizations. See also Elks Lodge, Kiwanis Club, Rotary International Club

Gaines, Jane

Gleason, Marion

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Graham, Shad E.

archives of

papers of. See also Our Home Town series

Great Depression

Gullett, William Lou

Gullette, George S.

Gunning, Tom

Hagge, Hans. See also Blissveldt Romance, The

Halttunen, Karen

Hansen, Miriam

Harris, Neil. See also operational aesthetic

H. B. B. Motion Picture Company

historical reenactments

Hollywood

culture

directors

era

fans and

films about

history of

movie theaters and

newspapers and

as pejorative

producers

rise of

stars/stardom

studio system

Hollywood films

classical

local

Movie Queen and

home movies. See also 16mm film, amateur fiction films

home talent

relation to amateur

home talent films

hometown

movies. See also small towns

Honneth, Axel

Howlett, Marion Angeline. See also Amateur Theater Guild

Huff, Theodore. See also Amateur Cinema League (ACL)

industrial films. See also industrial romances

Industrial Film Syndicate

Industrial Moving Picture Company

industrial romances

Interstate Film Producers. See also Newland, Don O.

intimacy

itinerant filmmakers

business models of

fraud and

inclusive participation among

small-gauge

Jacobs, Lea

Jamieson, Hugh V.

Jowett, Garth

Kahana, Jonathan

Kannapolis, North Carolina

African American residents of

Waters’s films of

Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait (Taylor)

Kember, Joe

Kirby, Lynne

Kirby, O. T.

Kiwanis Club

Kodak. See also 16mm film

Kunkleman, Harry C.

Lamb, Oliver William. See also Special Event Film Manufacturing Company

Landsman, Sol. See also Our Home Town series

Lindsay, Vachel

Lions Club

Little Country Theater. See also Arvold, Alfred

local, the

banality of (see also banal localism)

local businesses

local culture

local film: bad effects of

as commercial ventures

Hollywood and (see also Hollywood films: local)

as mode

practices

preservation of

reclamation of

recovery of

reuse of

self-recognition in (see also self-recognition)

screen tests and

small towns and

sponsors of

video and. See also actualities; amateur fiction films; civic films; film production: local; home talent films; local filmmakers; local views; municipal booster films; mutual recognition: films/movies of

local filmmakers

local newspapers

local newsreels

local views. See also actualities

Loevin, Arthur. See also Our Home Town series (Graham)

Long, Gareth

Lovely, Louise

Lumberjack, The

Lumière, Auguste and Louis

Main Street

Maltby, Richard

Man at the Throttle, The. See also Norman, Richard E.; Superior Film Manufacturing Company; Tinsley, Charles D.

Margalit, Avishai

Marshall, T. H.

mass culture. See also local culture

Massey, Doreen

Melnick, Ross

melodrama

silent-era

memory

collective

common

shared

memory pictures

Mexican Raid, The. See also Tinsley, Charles D.

Mine Owner’s Daughter, The

misrecognition

Mitchell and Kenyon Company. See also Toulmin, Vanessa

modernity

Moore, Paul S.

motion picture industry

changes in

home talent and

national (see also Hollywood). See also film industry

Motion Picture Patents Company

movie fans

Movie Queen series. See also Amateur Theater Guild; Cramer, Adella

Movies of Local People (Waters)

movie theater managers

chance games and

independent

local

local films and

producers and

publicity and

small-town

movie theaters

African Americans and

chains

competitions and

declining importance of

local

newspapers and

opera houses and

purpose-built

small-town

sound in

Moving Picture World: and amateur film

coverage of local films

discussion of exhibitor cameras

importance of

relationship to small-town exhibitors

warnings against local films

municipal booster films

as mode of production. See also advertising, film: municipal

Musser, Charles

mutual recognition

films/movies of. See also local film: self-recognition in; place recognition; Ricouer, Paul; Waters, H. Lee

National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF)

Newland, Don O. See also Interstate Film Producers

newsreels

announcers

camera operators

Hollywood

local

Norman, Richard E.

Northeast Historic Film (NHF)

operational aesthetic

Our Gang

Our Home Town series (Graham)

Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915)

Paragon Feature Film Company

films produced by. See also American Citizen, An; Blissveldt Romance, The; Cedar Valley Romance, A; Fifty Thousand Feet of Kansas; Lamb, Oliver William; Lumberjack, The; Mine Owner’s Daughter, The; Present and Past in the Cradle of Dixie; Special Event Film Manufacturing Company

Parisher, Don. See also Our Home Town series (Graham)

Pickford, Mary

place recognition

Poll, Ryan

Present and Past in the Cradle of Dixie

Progressive movement

public, the

publicity campaigns

Rabinowitz, Paula

race films

recognition

audience

“gasp of”

of one’s neighbors

racial. See also misrecognition; mutual recognition; place recognition; self-recognition

Redding, Leo L.

Renwick, Vanessa

Ricouer, Paul

Rotary International Club. See also fraternal service organizations

Rothacker, Watterson Rounds

Rothacker Film Manufacturing Company. See also Industrial Moving Picture Company

Sargent, Epes Winthrop. See also “Advertising for Exhibitors”

Scheinman, Jenny. See also Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait

Schneider, Eberhard. See also exhibitor cameras

screen contests. See also exploitation (publicity stunt)

segregation

self-promotion

self-recognition

Sennett, Mack

sentiment

decline of

Sklar, Robert

small-gauge cameras. See also exhibitor cameras

small-town: audiences

culture

films

imagination

life

movie theaters

residents/inhabitants

small towns

blackface and

Hollywood culture in

home talent films and

in Home Town films

itinerant filmmaking and

local films and

Sobler, Al. See also First National Exhibitor’s Circuit

social imaginary. See also public, the

Souls for Sale. See also screen contests

sound

synchronous

Spears, Timothy

special effects

Special Event Film Manufacturing Company

spectatorship

Streible, Dan

Superior Film Manufacturing Company

Taylor, Finn. See also Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait

Tepperman, Charles

Thompson, Scott

Tinsley, Charles D.

Tramps series. See also Mexican Raid, The; Superior Film Manufacturing Company

Tinsley Film Company

Tisdale, Franklin

Toulmin, Vanessa

town promotion

and planning. See also advertising: municipal

transitional era cinema. See also classical film

Universal Producing Company. See also Woods, Lauren Kenyon

Verhoeven, Deb

visual culture

Vitagraph Company

voiceover narration

von Stroheim, Eric

Waller, Gregory A.

Waters, H. Lee. See also Movies of Local People (Waters); mutual recognition

Wecker, Charles

Whyte-Whitman Company. See also exhibitor cameras

Wiebe, Robert

Wilson, Woodrow

women

African American

as filmmakers (see also Howlett, Marion Angeline)

in Hollywood

in local films

as movie fans

as narrators

as theater directors

Woods, Lauren Kenyon. See also Amateur Theater Guild; Movie Queen series

World War I

World War II

Zimmermann, Patricia

Zunz, Olivier