Title Flickering empire : how Chicago invented the U.S. film industry / Michael Glover Smith and Adam Selzer

Published New York : Wallflower Press Book published by Columbia University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- FOREWORD -- Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire -- PREFACE: Hollywood Before Hollywood -- Part One: Thomas Edison, Invention and the Dawn of a New Chicago -- 1. Edison's Kinetoscope and Pre-Motion-Picture Entertainment -- 2. The Columbian Exposition -- 3. The Dawn of Exhibition -- Part Two: Chicago Rising -- 4. Colonel William Selig -- 5. George Spoor, George Kleine, and the Rise of the Nickelodeon -- 6. Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson -- 7. The Edison Trust -- Part Three: The Golden Age of Chicago Film Production -- 8. The Golden Age of Essanay -- 9. The Golden Age of Selig Polyscope -- 10. Essanay Signs Charlie Chaplin -- 11. Chaplin in Chicago: His New Job -- Part Four: It All Came Crashing Down -- 12. The Decline Of The Chicago Studios -- 13. Major M.L.C. Funkhouser And The Chicago Censorship Code -- Epilogue -- Post-Script: Oscar and Orson -- Appendix A: Selig Polyscope's Pointers on Picture Acting -- Appendix B: A Complete List of the Extant Chicago-Shot Films Named in this Book and Where to See Them -- Appendix C: Some Censored Scenes of Chicago Films Noted in Local Newspapers -- Endnotes -- Index Summary This is the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907-1913). It illustrates the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (focusing principally on the Essanay and Selig Polyscope studios). It introduces colourful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, and shows that they were major players in the narrative of the city's involvement in film Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Motion picture industry -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Motion picture industry Illinois -- Chicago Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Selzer, Adam, author ISBN 0231850794 9780231850797

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