War on the home front: The Anglo-Boer war and the growth of rental in Britain. An economic perspective

Film History: An International Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-36

  Brown, Richard ^a  

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EID: 60949865681     PISSN: 08922160     EISSN: 15533905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/FIL.2004.16.1.28     Document Type: Article

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1. Edison did however bring a successful trade mark infringement case in the English courts against Tragides and others.
2. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that the marginal utility of a good declines as more of it is consumed in a given time period.
3. These aspects are discussed by the author in R. Brown and B. Anthony, A Victorian Film Enterprise. The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company 1897-1915 (Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 1999), 5-37 and Table 1.
4. The Era 18 November 1899, p. 32. (All Era and Showman references relate to the cited company advertisement on the page given).
5. The Era 6 January 1900 p. 27.
6. Benett-Stanford was the War Office authorised correspondent for The Western Morning News. Public Record Office W032/7137.
7. 'To attract the Public', The Showman September 1900, p. 17.
8. This was Arthur Duncan Thomas. See, The British Journal of Photography 1 August 1902. p. 616.
9. The Showman 5 January 1901, p. 8 (full page advertisement).
10. E. G. Turner, 'From 1896 to 1926. Recollections of Thirty years of Kinematography', Kinematograph Weekly 17 June 1926, P. 53.
11. In a much later account, 'The Early Days of Cinematography', TheBioscope 12 December 1912, p. 811
12. J. D. Walker claimed that, 'The English producers refused to supply us if we hired . . . ' If this statement is true it must refer to events after 1902.
13. The Era 26 January 1901, p. 31.
14. Luke McKernan (ed. ) A Yank in Britain. The Lost Memoirs of Charles Urban, Film Pioneer (Hastings: The Projection Box, 1999), 58-59.
15. Gibbons' wedding to Ellie Payne was extensively reported in The Era 11 and 25 January 1902. A list of the wedding guests does not note any known members of the British film trade.
16. The Showman 21 March 1902, p. 77.