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Book Notes 2

THE INCORPORATED MOVING PICURES STORY
PRE-1920 FILMOGRAPHY (cont.)
<insert in Chap 2, or work it up to stand alone?>
4. THE MAN WITH THE MONOCLE (68 min, dir. Floyd Boyfriend, 1919)
Thanks to the obsessive detective work of Grant K. Olson (Films When They Were Good: a history of missed chances and lost roads, New York, 1996; and Maplessness: [...]

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Book Notes 1

THE INCORPORATED MOVING PICTURES STORY
PRE-1920 FILMOGRAPHY (footage extant):
<insert in Chap 2. The Silent Years, Part One>
1. SWANKBREAD STRENUOUSLY DENIES ALL KNOWLEDGE (5 min, 1min 28sec extant, dir. Ross Worth, 1915)
Fragment of a short. One scene, stationary camera. In a sparsely furnished room a well-dressed young man is attempting to charm his scowling girlfriend, or perhaps [...]

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