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Added review of Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 by Ray Zone

Added review of Jackie Coogan, The World’s Boy King by Diana Serra Cary

Added review of Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn by Bill Cassara

Added review of Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution by Richard Fleischer

Added review of Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn

Added review of The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era by David W. Menefee

Added review of digital edition of Pathé Films, Supplement 1, 1908
on CD-R

Added review of digital edition of Photoplay Magazine, August 1918
on CD-R

Added review of Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood by Richard S. Birchard

Added review of Edmond Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy by Matthew Kennedy

Added review of Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films and Sound Recordings by David W. Menefee

Added review of Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten by Judy Artunian and Mike Oldham

Added review of Garbo by Barry Paris

Added review of Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class by Mark Garrett Cooper

Added review of Conrad Veidt on Screen by John T. Soister

Added review of Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim, edited by Bret Wood

Added review of Buster Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down by Tom Dardis

Added review of Comedy is a Man in Trouble by Alan Dale.

Added review of The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood by Coy Watson Jr.

Added review of Silent Cinema: An Introduction by Paolo Cherchi Usai.

Added review of The Films of Lon Chaney by Michael F. Blake.

REVIEWS
Buster Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down
by Tom Dardis
Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
by Richard S. Birchard
Charlie Chaplin and His Times
by Kenneth S. Lynn
Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies
by Alan Dale
Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography
by John T. Soister
Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn
by Bill Cassara
Edmond Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy
by Matthew Kennedy
The Films of Lon Chaney
by Michael F. Blake
The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era
by David W. Menefee
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success
by Joseph McBride
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear
edited by Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann
Garbo
by Barry Paris
Jackie Coogan, The World’s Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood’s Legendary Child Star
by Diana Serra Cary
The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood
by Coy Watson Jr.
Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class
by Mark Garrett Cooper
The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg’s Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928
edited by Arnie Bernstein
Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten
by Judy Artunian and Mike Oldham
Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution
by Richard Fleischer
Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim
edited by Bret Wood
Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films and Sound Recordings
by David W. Menefee
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood
by Frederica Sagor Maas
Silent Cinema: An Introduction
by Paolo Cherchi Usai
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
by Scott Eyman
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952
by Ray Zone

BRIEF NOTES
Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
by Charles Musser
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
by Kevin Brownlow
Belgian Cinema
edited by Marianne Thys
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon
by Vanessa Toulmin
Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music
by Q. David Bowers
Nitrate Won’t Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States
by Anthony Slide
Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film
by James Card
Silent Cinema
by Brian J. Cobb
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
by John Bengtson
This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film
edited by Roger Smither
William S. Hart: Projecting the American West
by Ronald L. Davis

PUBLICATIONS ON CD-R
Motion Picture Magazine, July 1918 —NEW
Motion Picture Magazine, April-May 1920
Motion Picture Magazine, June 1921
Motion Picture Magazine, July 1921
Motion Picture Magazine, February 1923
Motion Picture Magazine, December 1924
Motion Picture Magazine, April 1925
Motion Picture Magazine, January 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, June 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, October 1927
Motion Picture Magazine, October 1928
Motion Picture Magazine, December 1928
Motion Picture Magazine, April 1929
Motion Picture Magazine, September 1929
Pathé Films, Supplement 1, 1908
Photoplay Magazine, April 1915
Photoplay Magazine, January 1916
Photoplay Magazine, September 1916
Photoplay Magazine, February 1917
Photoplay Magazine, June 1918
Photoplay Magazine, August 1918
Photoplay Magazine, April 1922
Photoplay Magazine, November 1922
Photoplay Magazine, January 1925
Photoplay Magazine, March 1925
Photoplay Magazine, February 1926
Photoplay Magazine, August 1927
Photoplay Magazine, September 1928

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