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)
Some Historical References
Frame
Settings
Titles
Éclair (1907-1931)
History
Inscriptions on Edges
Intertitles
Logotype
Mention of the Name Éclair
Catalogue Number
Parallel Brand Names
Film Title
Logotype
Series
Some Bibliographical
Éclipse
History (1906-1923)
Intertitles
Catalogue Numbers
Series
Bibliography
Lux
History (1906-1913)
Inscriptions on the Edges
Frame-lines and Characteristics
Logo
Intertitles
Catalogue Numbers
Series
Bibliography
Pathé
Pathé as Production Company
Logos in the Settings
Titles / Intertitles
Edge Printings
Pathé as Apparatus Manufacturer
Application of Colour
Frames
Perforations
Pathé as Film Manufacturer
Emulsion Numbers.

Positive Emulsions
Negative Emulsions
Eastman Kodak
1. Introduction
2. 35mm Film Manufactured in the United States
2.1 1913 to 1950
2.2 Strip Numbers, Frame-markers, and Other Symbols
2.3 Plant of Origin
2.4 1951-1996
2.5 Pre-print Letter Codes, 1989 to the Present
2.6 Color Print Film, 1996 to the Present
2.7 Black &
White Print Film, Late 1990s to the Present
3. 35mm Film Manufactured Outside the United States
3.1 Kodak Ltd. (United Kingdom)
3.2 Kodak Canada Ltd. (Canada)
3.3 Société Kodak-Pathé (France)
3.4 Kodak A.G. (Germany)
4. 16mm Film Manufactured in the United States
4.1 Camera Originals and Pre-Print
4.2 Prints and Reversal Prints
5. 8mm Film
Agfa
1920s to 1940s
1920s
1930s
1940s to 1960s
1940s
1950s-Mid-1960s
Gevaert and Agfa-Gevaert
Gevaert
Agfa-Gevaert
Orwo
Its Origins and Creation
Edge Printings
The Mid-1960s
The Late 1960s Until the Mid-1970s
From 1975 to 1998
1998 to the Present
Fuji
The Foundation of Fuji Photo Film
Edge Codes of Fuji Photo Film Products (35mm motion picture films)
Preliminary Notes on Soviet Nitrate Film Stock and Other Aids to Identification of Russian and Soviet Films
1. A Brief History of Soviet Film Stock Manufacture in the Nitrate Era
2. Identification of Soviet Nitrate Film Stock
Perforations
Reel Lengths
Film Stock and Edge Marks / Edge Codes
List of Soviet Film Stock Manufacturers and Their Marks
3. "Non-Physical" Characteristics
Production Serial Numbers and Censorship Numbers
Trademarks in Intertitles
Title Fonts
Some Information on Other Film Stock Manufacturers
3M
Ansco
Deko
Ensign
Ferrania
Foton
Ilford
Indu
Lucky Film Corporation
Mafe
Perutz
Contributors to the 2020 Edition
Index
1. General Index.

2. Trademarks Index
3. Edge Printings Index
4. Film Titles Index.