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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Persons Discussed in Flickering Empire
Preface: Hollywood Before Hollywood
Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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
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