LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I.1    R. W. Paul Studio (b. 1898)

I.2    Lubin Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia

I.3    Gaumont’s first stage with set designers (ca. 1897)

1.1    Black Maria, summer 1903

1.2    Black Maria, circa winter 1893–1894

1.3    Ink drawing by Edwin J. Meeker of Edison’s Kinetographic  Theater

1.4    Interior View of Dickson’s Photograph Building

1.5    Dickson Greeting (1891)

1.6    Amy Muller (Heise, 1896)

1.7    Annie Oakley (Heise, 1894)

1.8    Robetta and Doretto (Dickson and Heise, 1894)

1.9    American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Rooftop Studio,  ca. 1896

1.10  Sandow (Dickson, American Mutoscope and Biograph, 1896)

2.1    Georges Méliès’s first studio (Studio A), interior

2.2    Méliès, Studio A, exterior (ca. 1897)

2.3    Une Chute de cinq étages (1906)

2.4    Le Portrait mystérieux (1899)

2.5    Le Portrait spirite (1903)

2.6    Méliès’s Studio B in À la conquête du pôle (1911)

2.7    À la conquête du pôle: Studio A

2.8    À la conquête du pôle: Studio B

3.1    “The Age of Movement” (American Mutoscope and Biograph  Film catalog cover, 1901)

3.2    The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken (1901)

3.3    Interior of an unidentified studio combining glass and  electrical lighting

3.4    Cooper Hewitt lamps on location

3.5    Panorama of Machine Company Aisle (1904)

3.6    “The Vitagraph Co. of America,” Moving Picture World  (June 8, 1912)

3.7    Vitagraph Studio, Brooklyn, New York

3.8    Edison Bedford Park Studio, Bronx, New York (ca. 1907)

3.9    Joseph Loth & Co. Silk Ribbon Mill (ca. 1892)

3.10  Interior, Edison Bedford Park Studio, Bronx, New York

3.11  Edison with a model of the “Concrete House” (ca. 1910)

3.12  “Seven Wonders of Today’s World . . .” St. Paul Daily News,  January 27, 1908

3.13  The Edison Aggregate (March 1910)

4.1    “Vue de la Cité Elgé,” Gaumont catalog (1913)

4.2    Henri Ménessier, Une prise de vues en plein air, Vincennes (1902)

4.3    Pathé’s Montreuil Studio, Interior

4.4    Usines Pathé-Cinéma de Joinville-le-Pont (after 1907)

4.5    “Vue de Notre Théatre (extérieur)” (ca. January 1906)

4.6    Clown, chien, ballon (Guy, 1905)

4.7    Ateliers et Magasins de Décors, Plan du 1er Etage (detail),  Auguste Bahrmann (March 1907)

4.8    “Studio Gaumont” (Photo Album, n.d.)

4.9    “Société des Etablissements Gaumont” (Gaumont catalog, 1912)

4.10  Une Héroïne de quatre ans (1907)

5.1    Kalem “Airdome” Studio at Glendale, California (July 6, 1912)

5.2    Fielding’s Collapsible Studio (February 6, 1915)

5.3    Biograph’s canvas-covered stage at Girard and Georgia  (July 10, 1915)

5.4    Selig Edendale Studio (July 1911)

5.5    “Lasky and De Mille Prospecting for Locations”  (December 12, 1914)

5.6    Universal City Tour Souvenir Guidebook Cover (1915)