Cover
Title
Copyright
Table of contents
Foreword
Harold Brown, a True Pioneer of Film Preservation
Editor's Notes on the New Edition
Genesis
Methodology
Notes on the Present Edition
Chronology
Structure
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
PART I
Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification
1. Preface to the 1990 Edition
2. Introduction to the 1990 Edition
3. Perforation Shapes
4. Embossed and Punched Marks
5. Producers' Edge Marks
5.2 Lumière
5.4 Pathé
5.5 Gaumont
5.6 Cines
5.7 Vitagraph
5.8 Selig

5.9 Pasquali
5.10 Warwick
5.11 Ambrosio
5.12 Sascha
5.13 Messter
5.14 Éclair
5.15 Urban
5.16 Lux
5.17 Motion Picture Patents Company
5.18 Post-War Edge Marks
6. Stock Manufacturers' Edge Marks
6.2 Eastman Kodak
6.3 Agfa
6.4 Selo
6.5 Brifco
6.6 Gevaert
6.7 Pathé
6.8 Lignose
6.9 Goerz Tenax
7. Frame Characteristics and Features of Margins
7.2 Méliès
7.3 Paul
7.4 Edison
7.5 Pathé (Early Films with Small Perforations)
7.6 Lumière
7.7 Warwick
7.8 Hepworth
7.9 Vitagraph
7.10 Selig
7.11 Pasquali
7.12 Gaumont

7.13 Cines
7.14 Thanhouser
7.15 Pathé (Films of 1905 Onward)
7.16 Lubin
7.17 Kalem
7.18 Essanay
7.19 Ambrosio
7.20 Itala
7.21 American Biograph Company
7.22 Lux
8. Title Styles
8.3 Hepworth (1907-1913)
8.4 Gaumont (1906-1914)
8.5 Cines (1909-1914)
8.6 Vitagraph (1906-1919)
8.7 Thanhouser (1910-1915)
8.8 Selig (1908-1915)
8.9 Éclair (1908-1915)
9. Production Serial Numbers
10. Letters, etc
11. Trademarks in Scenes
11.2 Méliès
11.3 Hepworth
11.4 Pathé
11.5 Gaumont
11.6 Vitagraph
11.7 Thanhouser
11.8 Kalem

11.9 Éclair
12. Essay Thanhouser
13. Essay Hepworth
Appendices: Film Lists
1. Gaumont (1906-1914)
2. Cines (1909-1914)
3. Éclair (1908-1915)
4. Selig Polyscope (1908-1915)
5. Thanhouser (1910-1915)
Title Styles
Illustrations in Colour (* = new to this edition)
Hepworth
Gaumont
Cines
Vitagraph
Thanhouser
Selig
Éclair
*American Standard (Éclair)
*Scientia (Éclair)
Pasquali
*Ambrosio
*Eclipse
*Edison
*Le Lion
*Lubin
*Lux
*Messter
*Mirror Films
*Nordisk Films Kompagni
*Pathé Frères
*Robert W. Paul

*Warwick Trading Co
*Welt-Kinematograph
PART II
Lumière
History (1892-1905)
General Characteristics
Perforations
Inscriptions on the Film Reel
Frame Characteristics
Logotype
Original Cans
Bibliography
Identifying a Georges Méliès
Fiction Films
Trademarks
Non-Fiction Films
Frame-lines and Frame Characteristics
Perforation Shapes
Splices
Attributing a Film to Méliès Is One Thing, Finding a Title and a Date Is
Title
Shooting Date
Parnaland and Éclair
Camille Blot-Wellens and Pierrette Lemoigne Parnaland (1895-1907)