ABSTRACT

First published in 1964.  When A Million and One Nights was first published in 1926, it was hailed as "the first complete source book on the motion picture" and its author, Terry Ramsaye, as "the first authentic film historian." The intervening years have established A Million and One Nights as a classic, standard work on the history of the motion picture from the beginning through 1925. The contents of this edition are identical with those of the original two-volume edition.

chapter 1|20 pages

FROM ARISTOTLE TO PHILADELPHIA, PA

chapter 2|33 pages

MUYBRIDGE IN MYTH AND MURDER

chapter 3|17 pages

IN THE HOUSE OF THE WIZARD

chapter 4|11 pages

IT MOVES!—OCTOBER 6, 1889

chapter 5|7 pages

150 SAVED; AN EMPIRE LOST

chapter 6|14 pages

WONDERS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR

chapter 7|13 pages

BLACK'S PRE-FILM PICTUREPLAY

chapter 10|15 pages

GALLANTS FROM VIRGINIA

chapter 9|13 pages

DANCING BUTTERFLIES —INTRIGUE

chapter 10|11 pages

MAJOR LATHAM CHALLENGES

chapter 11|12 pages

ARMAT ATTAINS THE SCREEN

chapter 12|16 pages

PAUL AND "THE TIME MACHINE"

chapter 13|15 pages

LUMIÈRE'S SIXTEEN -A- SECOND

chapter 4|16 pages

TEEN ROMANCES OF THE LATHAMS

chapter 15|18 pages

THE LEGEND OF RICHMOND

chapter 6|10 pages

TEEN BIOGRAPH STARTS WITH A PUNCH

chapter 17|8 pages

A TRADE SECRET OF 1896

chapter 18|11 pages

FIRST NIGHT ON BROADWAY

chapter 19|13 pages

THE INVASION O F LONDON

chapter 20|5 pages

FIRST PSALM OF THE CINEMA

chapter 21|11 pages

A DANCE FROM CAIRO AND A KISS

chapter 22|9 pages

VAUDEVILLE ADOPTS THE FILMS

chapter 23|12 pages

RECRUITING THE PIONEERS

chapter 24|11 pages

WHEN CORBETT FOUGHT "RUBY ROBERT"

chapter 25|9 pages

THE LATHAM STAR DECLINES

chapter 26|9 pages

CHICAGO—SPOOR AND SELIG

chapter 27|14 pages

THE LAWLESS FILM FRONTIER

chapter 28|11 pages

McKINLEY—BIOGRAPH'S FIRST NIGHT

chapter 29|10 pages

BARNUM'S GRANDSON ENTERTAINS

chapter 30|12 pages

EDISON, JR.,'' ON THE SPANISH MAIN

chapter 31|5 pages

THE CHARITY BAZAAR FIRE

chapter 32|10 pages

MARSHALL FIELD AND A BOOK AGENT

chapter 33|15 pages

THE SAGA OF CALVARY

chapter 30|10 pages

FOUD AND THEN THE FIGHT STARTED

chapter 35|5 pages

BLACKTON, SMITH AND ROCK

chapter 36|7 pages

MELIES MAGIC AND THE PIRATES

chapter 37|7 pages

ALASKA, WAR AND TAMMANY

chapter 38|8 pages

BRIGHT LIGHTS AND DARK DEEDS

chapter 39|15 pages

THE ''STORY PICTURE'' IS BORN

chapter 40|11 pages

THE SCREEN THEATRE ARRIVES

chapter 41|6 pages

ROOSEVELT AND DOCKSTADER

chapter 42|6 pages

WHEN ACTORS SCORNED THE SCREEN

chapter 43|9 pages

CARL LAEMMLE TAKES A CHANCE

chapter 44|6 pages

ENTER D. W. GRIFFITH WITH MSS

chapter 45|8 pages

KALEM AND THE FIRST ''BEN HUR''

chapter 46|8 pages

JEREMIAH J. KENNEDY, HARDBOILED

chapter 47|15 pages

AND NOW COMES CENSORSHIP

chapter 48|15 pages

THE TRUST WAR BEGINS

chapter 49|11 pages

INTRODUCING MARY PICKFORD

chapter 50|13 pages

GRIFFITH EVOLVES SCREEN SYNTAX

chapter 51|6 pages

T. R. GETS NATURE-FAKED, AGAIN

chapter 52|9 pages

IMP KIDNAPS TRUST STAR

chapter 53|12 pages

THE DISCOVERY OF CALIFORNIA

chapter 54|11 pages

A COWBOY, AN UNDERTAKER, ET AL

chapter 55|9 pages

THE LATHAMS' LAST DAY

chapter 56|13 pages

ADVENTURES OF KINEMACOLOR

chapter 57|11 pages

TOM INCE RAISES A MOUSTACHE

chapter 58|10 pages

HERRING, DIAMONDS AND SELZNICK

chapter 59|11 pages

ADOLPH ZUKOR AND SARAH BERNHARDT

chapter 6|9 pages

TY THE GISHES, "PINK" AND "BLUE"

chapter 6|10 pages

TY-ONE THE SCREEN DISCOVERS SEX

chapter 6|17 pages

TY-TWO LASKY RENTS A BARN

chapter 6|12 pages

TY-THREE "THE BIRTH OF A NATION"

chapter 6|9 pages

TY-FOUR "CHARLIE CHAPMAN" GETS AN OFFER

chapter 6|22 pages

TY-FIVE THE SCREEN AND PRESS CONSPIRE

chapter 6|6 pages

TY-SIX PANCHITO VILLA SELLS A WAR

chapter 6|9 pages

TY-SEVEN "ROXY" COMES TO BROADWAY

chapter 6|6 pages

TY -NINE JACK JOHNSON'S FILM KNOCKOUT

chapter 7|11 pages

TY BARA AND THE VAMPIRE

chapter 7|7 pages

TY-ONE $104,000 FOR MARY

chapter 7|13 pages

TY-TWO TRIANGLE, FAIRBANKS AND RIESENFELD

chapter 7|7 pages

TY-THREE HENRY FORD ANSWERS A WAR CRY

chapter 7|12 pages

TY-FOUR $670,000 FOR CHAPLIN

chapter 7|8 pages

TY-SIX TWO MILLION ON BELSHAZZAR

chapter 7|18 pages

TY-SEVEN ZUKORED AND SELZNICKED

chapter 7|12 pages

TY-EIGHT WILSON, HEARST AND CREEL

chapter 7|16 pages

TY-NINE MARY, McADOO AND MONTE CARLO

chapter 80|21 pages

WILL HAYS GOES TO LUNCH

chapter 81|15 pages

TODAY