Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Early Cinema" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Cinematographe, Chronophotographic, Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, Kodak, Motion Pictures, Moving Pictures, Mutoscope, Muybridge, Nickelodeon, Thomas Edison, Vitascope.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"All the Gaits of Horses"
New York Sun (New York, NY), November 18, 1882, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"Photographing Flight"
New York Tribune (New York, NY), April 18, 1882, Page 9, Image 9, col. 4.
"Kodak Camera"
New York Tribune (New York, NY), April 28, 1889, Page 28, Image 28, col. 6.
"The Kinetograph"
Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, UT), May 29, 1891, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"A Look into the Kinetoscope"
Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, UT), September 3, 1894, Page 1, Image 1, col. 6.
"Novelties in the Realms of Science, Literature, and Art"
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), December 27, 1896, Page 25, Image 25, col. 1.
"Edison's Latest"
Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE), April 19, 1896, Page 16, Image 16, col. 4.
"A New Corporation"
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), November 19, 1898, Page 9, Image 9, col. 4.
"Armat Company Wins its Suit Against Wizard Edison"
Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 18, 1902, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"Moving Pictures Interesting Item"
Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), September 3, 1905, Page 3, Image 83, col. 1.
"Yankee Business Ingenuity"
The Washington Herald (Washington, DC), May 14, 1907, Page 7, Image 7, col. 1.
"After the 5 Cent Theaters"
The Sun (New York, NY), July 6, 1907, Page 4, Image 4, col. 3.
"Moving Picture War On"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), February 26, 1908, Page 5, Image 5, col. 3.
"This City has over 500 Moving Picture Shows"
The Evening World (New York, NY), January 16, 1909, Final Results Edition, Page 9, Image 9, col. 1.
"Theater Fire in a Mexican Western Port"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), February 18, 1909, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Colored Moving Pictures"
The Sun (New York, NY), March 21, 1909, Third Section, Page 3, Image 35, col. 7.

Early Cinema: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America