American Silent Film

actors Advertisement Arbuckle scandal Arbuckle's artist audience Back to God's Ben-Hur Bray's camera character Charlie Steiner cinema cities Colleen Moore Colonel Heeza Liar comedy comic culture director early emblem shot ethnic exchange exhibition exhibitors feature female femininity fictional film industry film's spectators Fleischer genre God's Country Goldwyn Harry Rapf Hays Heeza Liar Hollywood Houston Hippodrome Hurd immigrant Irving Thalberg J. R. Bray Jewish John Randolph Bray June Mathis look Mathis's Max Fleischer Mayer Méliès melodrama Minsky Motion Picture Moving Picture World narrative Nell Shipman nickelodeon Nita Naldi organization Palmer Photoplay Corporation Paramount patent Pathé Photodramatist Photoplay play postfilmic address prefilmic address production reel release role rural scenario scene Schary screen screenwriting script sexual Shipman silent film small-town social star Steiner story studio style success Thalberg theater tion Torriani towns urban Valentino vamp vaudeville woman women writing Yiddish music halls Yiddish vaudeville York Zukor