Early Cinema Gateway
A selection of websites on early cinema, broadly defined as the period of filmmaking to 1914, when Charles Urban's career was at its height. Also included are some general sites on pre-cinema, silent cinema, colour cinematography, and Urban-related themes such as phonographs.
- General Resources
Archives, databases, catalogues, histories - Genres
Types of early cinema production - Non-Fiction
Non-fiction or documentary production - Companies and Studios
Early film studios and production companies - Moving Pictures
Streamed video and pre-cinema animations - Biographies
Lives of actors and filmmakers - Colour and Technology
Early motion picture technologies - Cinemas
Cinemas, fairgrounds and other film exhibition venues - Pre-Cinema
Magic lanterns, chronophotography, optical toys etc - Other Themes
Phonographs, optical illusions etc - Alphabetical Listing
A simple listing by title of all sites listed above - Dead sites
Early cinema websites no longer active