American Film Personnel and Company Credits, 1908-1920

Download or read book American Film Personnel and Company Credits, 1908-1920 written by Paul C. Spehr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einar Lauritzen and Gunar Lundquist published the definitive American Film Index, 1908-1915, and its companion volume for the years 1916 through 1920. The current work indexes Lauritzen and Lundquists works and stands in its own right as a definitive reference work on early American filmmaking, with or without access to the ground-breaking predecessor volume. This work lists 33,664 films, 23,159 names, 1,025 companies and 785 works that were adapted into movies. The work includes extensive cross-referencing and "see" references for alternate titles and names.