1. Introduction
2. Prologue: introduction
3. At the beginning: motion picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere Companies / Charles Musser
4. Film projection and variety shows: introduction
5. Now you see it, now you don't: the temporality of the cinema of attractions / Tom Gunning
6. The Kiss in the tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the emergence of the edited film in England / Frank Gray
7. The cinema of attractions in France, 1896-1904 / Richard Abel
8. Storytelling and the nickelodeon: introduction
9. Moving towards fictional narratives: story films become the dominant product, 1903-1907 / Charles Musser
10. Path ̌goes to town': French films create a market for the nickelodeon, 1903-1906 / Richard Abel
11. Manhattan nickelodeons: new data on audiences and exhibition / Ben Singer
12. Cinema and reform: introduction
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