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This section is still under construction.
Many books, journals, newspapers, websites and other sources have been used in compiling Chronomedia. Bearing in mind that the material has been gathered over a period of more than 30 years, some sources used to check a single reference may not have been recorded at the time and have been forgotten.
        In response to a number of requests from readers for more details and/or clarification, a fresh start has been made on compiling a list of references. This should allow more transparency in determining sources of information. In future, a reference number will be added to entries, where appropriate, with a link to this page. An attempt will also be made to add such references retrospectively to existing entries.

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0001 • Albert Abramson: Electronic Motion Pictures. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1974. [Thanks to Patrick von Sychowski for lending a copy.]

0002 • John Barnes: The Beginnings of the Cinema in England 1894-1901. 5 volumes with revisions. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1976-1998.

0003 • Andrew Bibby, Cathy Denford and Jerry Cross: Local Television: Piped dreams? Milton Keynes: Redwing Press, 1979.

0004 • Robert Bridges (ed): The BBC's Recommendations for Pronouncing Doubtful Words. SPE Tract no XXXII. London: Clarendon Press, 1929, 3rd imp 1931.

0005 • Asa Briggs: History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Oxford: OUP, 5 volumes.

0006 • Joel W Finler: The Hollywood Story. London: Octopus Books, 1988.

0007 • Ivan Harris: History of the CBC. Ottawa: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1976.

0008 • Melvin Harris: ITN Book of Firsts: The invention and origin of nearly everything. London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1994.

0009 • Paul A Harris: When Pirates Ruled the Waves. Aberdeen: Impulse Publications, 1968. 4th edn, August 1970.

0010 • Penelope Houston: Keepers of the Frame: The film archives. London: British Film Institute, 1994.

0011 • Peter M Lewis: Community Television and Cable in Britain. London: British Film Institute, 1978.

0012 • Lawrence Lichty and Malachi Topping (eds): American Broadcasting. New York, Hastings House, 1975.

0013 • Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (ed): The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: OUP, 1996.

0014 • George Perry: The Great British Picture Show. London: Pavilion Books in association with Michael Joseph, 1974. 2nd edn, 1985.

0015 • Patrick Robertson: The Guinness Book of Film Facts and Feats. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives, 1980.
—especially for identifying first film productions

0016 • Royal Television Society History and Archives Group: Television Buildings. London, Royal Television Society, June 1997.

0017 • Anthony Smith (ed): British Broadcasting. Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1974.

0018 • Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow: "Flickering Screens: Film Studios and Cinemas in Waltham Forest" exhibition, December 1991.

0019 • Patricia Warren: British Film Studios, An illustrated history. London, B T Batsford, 1995.

0020 • Shell Book of Firsts.

0021 • The Guardian and BBC Worldwide: The Guardian Century CD-ROM. London, 2000.

0022 • Kine Yearbook.

0023 • Whitakers Almanack, various years.

0024 • Who's Who of Victorian Cinema website.

0025 • Scott Eyman: The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the talkie revolution 1926-1930. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

0026 • Journal of the SMPTE.
    a Vol 60,1, January 1959
    b E I Sponable: 'Historical Development of Sound Films', Vol 48,4, April 1947

0027 • Elisabeth Weis and John Belton (eds): Film Sound: Theory and Practice, Columbia University Press, 1985.

0028 • Association of Motion Picture Sound Newsletter Spring 1994.

0029 • Daily Chronicle, 27 August 1913.

0030 • The British Film Industry, PEP (Political and Economic Planning), London, May 1952.

0031 • Thomas Cripps: Hollywood's High Noon: Movemaking and society before television. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

0032 • Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, Commissioner of Education of New York, et al. No 552, Supreme Court of the United States 343 U.S. 495. 1952 [The full text is available online.] 

0033 • Rachael Low: Film Making in 1930s Britain. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985

0034 • Personal communication from Gergely Juhász, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. [Thank you!] References: G Latré: 'The 1535 Coverdale Bible and Its Antwerp Origins' in Orlaith O'Sullivan (ed): The Bible as book. The Reformation. London: British Library, 2000; P Arblaster, G Juhasz and G Latré (eds): Tyndale's Testament. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002

0035 • Michael Wakelin: J Arthur Rank, The man behind the gong. Oxford: Lion Publishing, 1996.

0036 • Kristin Thompson: 'The Rise and Fall of Film Europe' in Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (eds): "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, commerce and cultural exchange 1920-1939. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.

0037 • www.eurasianet.org.

0038 • Richard Maltby: 'The Cinema and the League of Nations' in Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (eds): "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, commerce and cultural exchange 1920-1939. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.

0039 • League of Nations Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change, Bloomington, Indiana.

0040 • Thomas H Guback: The International Film Industry: Western Europe and America since 1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

0041 • Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (eds): "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, commerce and cultural exchange 1920-1939. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.

0042 • Parliament of Australia Parliamentary Library website.

0043 • Radio Vatican website.

0044 • Maurice Gorham: Sound and Fury: Twenty-one years in the BBC. London: Percival Marshall, 1948.

0045 • J Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. London: Polity Press, 1989.

0046 • Mervyn LeRoy: Mervyn LeRoy, Take One

0047 • Jason Jacobs: The Intimate Screen: Early British television drama. Oxford Television Studies, OUP, 2000.

0048 • William Boddy: ‘The beginnings of American television’ in Anthony Smith (ed): Television: An international history, 1995.

0049 • Iris: Legal observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, 1995.

0050 • Matthew Bernstein: Walter Wanger: Hollywood independent, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

0051 • Brighton Herald, 28 January 1899.

0052 • Judy Middleton: Film-makers, Cinemas and Circuses at Hove, [self-published] October 2001.

0053 • D Robert Elleray: A Refuge from Reality: The cinemas of Brighton & Hove, Hastings: Olio Books, 1989.

0054 • James Wood: History of International Broadcasting, Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus/The Science Museum, London, 1994. An interesting book, spoiled by sloppy editing that let through numerous small errors

0055 • Motion Picture Herald, 15 June 1940.

0056 • Derek Bouse: Wildlife Films, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

0057 • Tele-Tech & Electronic Industries, July 1954.

0058 • Lewis Jacobs: The Rise of the American Film: A critical history, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1939.

0059 • Clayton R Koppes & Gregory D Black: Hollywood Goes to War: Patriotism, Movies and the Second World War from 'Ninotchka' to 'Mrs Miniver', Tauris Parke Paperbacks, London, 2000.

0060 • BBC Handbook 1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1958.

0061 • Robert Selvey, head of audience research: BBC internal memo, October 1937.