List of illustrations

1 Edison’s Kinetoscope peep-show viewer
Author’s collection
2 Edison’s Studio, the Black Maria
Courtesy of the US Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Thomas Edison National Historical Park
3 Alice Guy-Blaché
Author’s collection
4 Cary Grant and Randolph Scott
Author’s collection
5 Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, May Robson, and Asta (the dog) on the set of Bringing Up Baby (RKO, 1938)
Author’s collection
6 Marlene Dietrich, entertaining frontline soldiers of the Unites States Third Army, 1944
Author’s collection
7 Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Warner Bros., 1939)
Author’s collection
8 On the Waterfront (Columbia Pictures, 1954)
Author’s collection
9 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Warner Bros., 1966)
Author’s collection
10 Do the Right Thing (40 Acres and a Mule/Universal, 1989)
Author’s collection
11 Toy Story (Pixar, 1995)
Author’s collection
12 “(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar” (2009)
Author’s collection