Guide to Motion Picture Catalogs
Series One: Producers and Sales Agents -- Active Before 1900
Reel No. 1
A. -- RAFF & GAMMON |
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| A-002 |
(The Kinetoscope Company) Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Edison
Kinetoscope, 1894, 1 p [photocopy]: NR-GE. |
| A-003 |
(The Kinetoscope Company) Bulletin No. 1 (fragment), [December] 1894, 1 p
[photocopy]: MH-BA. |
| A-004 |
(The Kinetoscope Company) Bulletin No. 2 (fragment), January 1895, 1 p
[photocopy]: MH-BA. |
| A-005 |
Announcement . . . Price List of Films, [after late-June 1895], 4 pp [photocopy]:
MH-BA. |
| A-009 |
The Vitascope, [March 1896], 14 pp [reprint facsimile]: [NjWOE, NNMOMA],
DGU. |
| A-023 |
The Vitascope, Press Comments, [May 1896], 4 pp [photocopy]: ICFAR. |
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| B. -- MAGUIRE & BAUCUS, LIMITED |
| B-002 |
(Continental Commerce Company) Thomas A. Edison's Latest and Most
Remarkable Invention: The Kinetoscope, 1894, 6 pp: NjWOE. |
| B-005 |
(Continental Commerce Company) Thos. A. Edison's Kinetoscope [1894], 4 pp:
NjWOE. |
| B-008 |
(Continental Commerce Company) Thos. A. Edison's Kinetoscope: Edison's
Masterpiece [1894], 4 pp: NjWOE. |
| B-011 |
Edison Films for Projecting Machines and Kinetoscopes, 20 January 1897, 8 pp:
NN. |
| B-016 |
Preliminary Circular, Edison Perfected Projecting Kinetoscope, 16 February 1897,
2 pp: NN. |
| B-018 |
Edison "Projectoscope" or Projecting Kinetoscope, [1897], 4 pp: NN. |
| B-021 |
Catalogue: Edison and International Films, April 1897, 20 pp: NNMOMA. |
| B-032 |
(Fragment), [ca. summer 1897], 2 pp: NjWOE. |
| B-034 |
Lumière Films, Edison Films, International Films, Fall Catalogue 1897, 20 pp
[photocopy]: [NjWOE]*. |
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| C. -- C. FRANCIS JENKINS |
| C-002 |
The Jenkins Phantascope, 26 April 1896, 18 pp: PPS, MdSuFR. |
| C-013 |
Life Motion Realism - The Phantascope, [July 1896], 18 pp: PPS. |
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| D. -- AUGUSTE & LOUIS LUMIÈRE |
| D-002 |
(Société Anonyme des Plaques et Papiers Photographiques) Description of the
Cinematographe of August and Louis Lumière, 1897, 34 pp: CLAc, TxU-H. |
| D-020 |
Price List of Cinematographe-Lumière, [ca. 1898], 1 p [photocopy]: TxU-H. |
| D-021 |
(Société Anonyme des Plaques et Papiers Photographiques) Catalogue Général des
Vues Cinématographiques Positives de la Collection Lumière, [ca. 1901], 48 pp:
NNMOMA. |
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| E. -- THE INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPANY |
| E-002 |
International Photographic Films, [winter, 1897-98], 24 pp: NNMOMA. |
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| F. -- F. M. PRESCOTT |
| F-002 |
Latest Edison Films for Projecting Machines, [June 1897], 4 pp [photocopy):
[DLC], NN. |
| F-005 |
Catalogue of New Films, [1899], 44 pp: NjBaFAR. |
| F-028 |
'99 Model Combined Cineograph and Stereopticon, [1899], 36 pp: NjBaFAR. |
| F-047 |
Supplement No. 3, New Films, 20 November 1899, 4 pp: NjBaFAR. |
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Series Two: Producers -- Active after 1900
| G. -- EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY |
| G-003 |
Edison Projecting Kinetoscope and Stereopticon Attachment, [1898], 12 pp:
Hummel |
| G-013 |
Supplement No. 4, War Extra - Edison Films, May 1898, 12 pp: NjBaFAR. |
| G-020 |
Catalogue of Edison-Lalande Batteries, Edison Motors and Fans, Edison Projecting
Kinetoscopes, Edison X-Ray Apparatus, Edison Cautery Transformers, Edison
Electro-Medical Appliances, [1898], 68 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-057 |
No. 94, Edison Films, March 1900, Complete Catalogue, 48 pp [photocopy]:
CLCM. |
| G-082 |
No. 105, Edison Films, July 1901, Complete Catalogue, 100 pp [photocopy]:
[DLC], NjWOE. |
| G-132 |
No. 107, Instructions for Setting Up and Operating the Edison Projecting
Kinetoscope, [1901], 19 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| G-142 |
No. 135, Edison Films, September 1902, 150 pp [photocopy]: [DLC], NjWOE. |
| G-216 |
No. 142, Edison Films, May 1902, Pocket Edition, 50 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-242 |
No. 162, Edison Films, October 1902, Pocket Edition, 62 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-273 |
No. 166, The Edison Universal Projecting Kinetoscope, 1 January 1903, 32 pp:
NR-GE, CLAc. |
| G-290 |
No. 168, Edison Films, February 1903, Supplement, 24 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-303 |
No. 175, Edison Films, May 1903, Supplement, 40 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-324 |
Edison Film, Uncle Tom's Cabin, [1903], 8 pp [photographs]: NR-GE. |
| G-332 |
No. 185, Edison Films, October 1903, Supplement, 24 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-344 |
No. 192, Edison Film, Jack and the Beanstalk, 4 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-347 |
No. 200, Edison Films, January 1904, Supplement, 16 pp: NNMOMA. |
| G-356 |
No. 201, Edison Film, The Great Train Robbery, [1903], 7 pp [photographs]: NR-GE. |
| G-363 |
No. 210, Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, 2 May 1904, 40 pp: NNMOMA. |
| G-386 |
Circular Letter No. 1, 18 April 1904, 2 pp: NR-GE. |
| G-388 |
Circular Letter No. 2, 20 April 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-389 |
Circular Letter No. 3, 23 April 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-390 |
Circular Letter No. 4, 25 April 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-391 |
Circular Letter No. 5, 15 May 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-392 |
Circular Letter No. 6, 15 May 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-393 |
Circular Letter No. 7, 15 May 1904, 1 p: NR-GE. |
| G-394 |
No. 222, Edison Films, September 1904, Supplement, 16 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-403 |
No. 225, Edison Films to July 1, 1904, 68 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-438 |
No. 267, Edison Film, Poor Algy, 5 October 1905, 4 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-441 |
No. 268, Edison Film, Watermelon Patch, 24 October 1905, 4 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-444 |
No. 269, Edison Film, The Miller's Daughter, 6 November 1905, 4 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-447 |
No. 270, Edison Film, Down on the Farm, 2 November 1905, 4 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-450 |
No. 272, Edison Film, Everybody Works But Father, 15 November 1905, 1 p:
NjWOE, NNMOMA. |
| G-451 |
No. 273, Edison Film, The Train Wreckers, 27 November 1905, 4 pp: NNMOMA. |
| G-454 |
No. 276, Edison Film, Life of an American Policeman, 12 December 1905, 4 pp:
NjWOE, NNMOMA. |
| G-457 |
No. 288, Edison Films, July 1906, 114 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-515 |
No. 312, Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, 2 January 1907, 4 pp [photo copy]:
NNMOMA. |
| G-518 |
No. 315, Edison Films, January 1907, Pocket Edition, 76 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-556 |
No. 328, Edison Film, A Race For Millions, [1907], 1 p: NjWOE. |
| G-557 |
No. 335, Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, 15 February 1908, 48 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-580 |
No. 355, Edison Film, The Cowboy and the Schoolmarm, 1 April 1908, 1 p:
NjWOE. |
| G-581 |
No. 358, Edison Film, Nero and the Burning of Rome, 20 April 1908, 1 p: NjWOE. |
| G-582 |
No. 370, Important Notice - Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, 1 June 1908, 4 pp:
NjWOE. |
| G-585 |
No. 380, Edison Kinetoscopes, 1 September 1908, 9 pp: NjWOE, NNMOMA. |
| G-592 |
No. 410, Edison Projecting Kinetoscopes, 1 December 1908, 50 pp: NjWOE. |
| G-618 |
No. 415, Edison Kinetoscopes - Portable Gas-making Outfit, 8 December 1908, 4
pp: NjWOE. |
| G-621 |
(Kinetograph Dept.) Film Catalogue, [1905-14], 41 pp: DLC. |
| G-683 |
"The Whole Story about Walk-Over Moving Pictures," October 1908, 11 pp:
NjWOE. |
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Reel No. 2
| H. -- AMERICAN MUTOSCOPE & BIOGRAPH COMPANY
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| H-002 |
Picture Catalogue, November 1902, 251 pp: NNMOMA. |
| H-128 |
Film Catalogue, Supplement No. 1, April 1903, 30 pp [photocopy, missing pp 14-15]: [NNMOMA], Malkames. |
| H-142 |
Bulletin 33, The Escaped Lunatic, 10 October 1904, 1 p: NjWOE. |
| H-143 |
Bulletin 34, New English Subjects, 17 October 1904, 1 p: NjWOE. |
| H-144 |
Bulletin 36, The Lost Child, 26 October 1904, 1 p: NjWOE. |
| H-146 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.1], No.'s 1-499, 125 pp: NNMOMA, CLCM. |
| H-201 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.2], No.'s 500-1001, [missing No.'s 504-512 and 898-903 in both sets], 125 pp: NNMOMA, CLCM. |
| H-260 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.3], No.'s 1002 -1502, 125 pp: NNMOMA, CLCM. |
| H-324 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.4], No.'s 1503-2002 , 125 pp: NNMOMA, CLCM. |
| H-386 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.5], No.'s 2003-2502, 125 pp: NNMOMA, CLCM. |
| H-448 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog, Vol.6), No.'s 2583-3002 , [missing No.'s 2859-2958], 105
pp [some duplicate and out of sequence pages]: CLCM. |
| H-554 |
[Biograph Photo Catalog], No.'s 3171-3174, 3231-3234, 3271-3274, 3 pp [loose
sheets]: CLAc. |
| H-557 |
The Mutoscope, [1897], 18 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| H-566 |
The Mutoscope: A Money Maker, [November 1898], 8 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| H-574 |
Commercial Features of the Mutoscope, [ca. 1898], 4 pp [photocopy]: CLAc. |
| H-578 |
(The International Mutoscope Syndicate) The Age of Movement, 1901, 44 pp:
CLAc. |
| H-601 |
Directions for Operating and List of Parts, Type E Mutoscope, [ca. 1905], 8 pp:
CLCM. |
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| I. -- THE SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY |
| I-005 |
July Supplement of New Films, July 1902, 8 pp: PWbH. |
| I-010 |
Special Supplement of Colorado Films, November 1902, 24 pp: PWbH. |
| I-023 |
February Supplement of New Films, 2 February 1903, 16 pp: PWbH. |
| I-032 |
1903 Complete Catalogue of Films and Moving Picture Machines, 52 pp: PWbH,
CLAc. |
| I-058 |
Films of the Passion Play, 8 pp: CLAc, CLCM, DGU. |
| I-063 |
Naval Battles Between the Russian and Japanese Fleets at Port Arthur and
Chemulpo, [1904], 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-066 |
Tracked by Bloodhounds, [1904], 2 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| I-068 |
The Serenade, [ca. 1904], 2 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| I-070 |
The Hold-up of the Leadville Stage, [1905], 8 pp [photocopy]: CLCM. |
| I-075 |
The New Bullfight, [1905], 2 pp: CLAc. |
| I-077 |
Supplement No. 15, Special Series of the Columbia River, [1905], 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-081 |
No. 17, Tracked by Bloodhounds, 8 pp: CLAc. |
| I-085 |
Samoa and the Fiji Islands, [1905], 8 pp: CLAc. |
| I-091 |
Special Roosevelt Circular, [March 1905], 2 pp: CLAc. |
| I-093 |
The Gay Deceiver, [ca. 1906], 2 pp: CLAc. |
| I-095 |
No. 44, Hale's Tours Films, August 1906, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-098 |
No. 47, The Female Highwayman, November 1906, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-101 |
No. 49, The Tramp Dog, December 1906, 6 pp: CLAc, CLCM. |
| I-104 |
No. 52, The Girl From Montana, March 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-107 |
No. 56, The Masher, June 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-112 |
No. 57, Western Justice, June 1907, 4 pp: CLAc, CLCM. |
| I-115 |
No. 58, The Bookworm, July 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-118 |
No. 59, Matinee Idol, July 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-121 |
No. 60, The Onion Fiend, July 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-124 |
No. 62, All's Well That Ends Well, August 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-127 |
No. 64, A Life for a Life, September 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-130 |
No. 66/67, The Girl and the Judge/Motoring Under Difficulties, October 1907, 4
pp: CLAc. |
| I-133 |
No. 68, A Southern Romance, October 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-135 |
No. 69, What A Pipe Did, November 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-138 |
No. 70, Wooing and Wedding a Coon, November 1907, 4 pp: CLAc, CLCM. |
| I-141 |
No. 71, The Tin Wedding, November 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-144 |
No. 72, Mike, the Model, November 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-147 |
No. 74, The Eviction, December 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-150 |
No. 75, The Two Orphans, December 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-153 |
No. 76, The Four Footed Hero, December 1907, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-156 |
1907 Catalogue of The Selig Polyscope and Library of Selig Films, 1907, 144 pp:
CLAc. |
| I-230 |
No. 77/78, The Financial Scare/The Newly-Wed's First Meal, January 1908, 4 pp:
CLAc. |
| I-233 |
No. 79, The Irish Blacksmith, January 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-236 |
No. 82, Monte Cristo, January 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-239 |
No. 83/84, Just His Luck/A Leap Year Proposal, February 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-242 |
No. 88, The French Spy, March 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-245 |
No. 90/91, Friday the l3th/Swash-Buckler, 19 March 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-248 |
No. 94, Mishaps of a Bashful Man, 9 April 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-251 |
No. 96, The Holy City, 23 April 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-254 |
No. 97, Rip Van Winkle, 30 April 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-257 |
No. 98, The Blue Bonnet, 7 May 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-260 |
No. 99/100, Troubles of a New Drug Clerk/Summer Boarders Taken In 14 May
1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-263 |
No. 101, The Shadow of the Law, 21 May 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-266 |
No. 102/103, In the Nick of Time/Not Yet But Soon, 28 May 1908, 4 pp; CLAc. |
| I-269 |
No. 102/103, In the Nick of Time/Not Yet But Soon, May 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-272 |
No. 104, East Lynne, 4 June 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-275 |
No. 105, The Hidden Hand, 11 June 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-278 |
No. 106, The Fighting Parson/The Multnomah Falls, 18 June 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-281 |
No. 107, Damon and Pythias, June 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-284 |
No. 108, The Spirit of "76," 2 July 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-287 |
No. 109, An Indian's Gratitude, 9 July 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-290 |
No. 110, A Tale of Two Cities/The Only Way, 16 July 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-293 |
No. 111, Bobby White in Wonderland/Weary Waggles' Busy Day, 23 July 1908, 4
pp: CLAc. |
| I-296 |
No. 112, The Road to Ruin, 30 July 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-299 |
No. 113, The Cowboy's Baby, 6 August 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-302 |
No. 115, The Lion's Bride/A Hindoo's Ring, 13 August 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-305 |
No. 117, Romance of the Old Mill/A Pair of Kids, 27 August 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-308 |
No. 118, The Power of Labor, 3 September 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-311 |
No. 119, The Cattle Rustlers, 10 September 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-314 |
No. 120, Crazed by Jealousy, 17 September 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-317 |
No. 121, A Great Wrong Righted/A Magical Tramp, 24 September 1908, 4 pp:
CLAc. |
| I-320 |
No. 122, A Daughter of Erin, 1 October 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-323 |
No. 123, The Ranchman's Love, 8 October 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-326 |
No. 124, One of the Bravest, 15 October 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-329 |
No. 125, The Fisherman's Rival, 22 October 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-332 |
No. 126, Lights and Shadows of Chinatown, 29 October 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-335 |
No. 127, The Actor's Child, 5 November 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-338 |
No. 128, A Mountain Feud, 12 November 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-341 |
No. 129, A Hidden Treasure, 19 November 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-344 |
No. 130, On Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-347 |
No. 131, A Dual Life/The Football Fiend, 3 December 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-350 |
No. 132, The Queen of the Arena, 10 December 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-353 |
No. 133, A Montana Schoolmarm, 17 December 1908, 6 pp: CLAc. |
| I-356 |
No. 134, The Duke's Motto, 24 December 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
| I-359 |
No. 135, In the Shenandoah Valley, 31 December 1908, 4 pp: CLAc. |
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