TY - DATA AU - Frykholm, Joel, TI - George Kleine and American cinema: the movie business and film culture in the silent era SN - 9781838710453 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - British Film Institute KW - Kleine, George. KW - Motion picture industry KW - United States KW - History KW - Silent films N1 - Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily; Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; London; Bloomsbury Publishing; 2019; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement N2 - "George Kleine was a New York City optician who moved to Chicago in 1893 to set up an optical store. In 1896 he branched out and began selling motion picture equipment and films. Within a few years he becameAmerica's largest film distributor and a pivotal figure in the movie business. In chronicling the career of this motion picture pioneer - including his rapid rise to fame and fortune, but also his gradual downfall after 1915 as the era of Hollywood began - Joel Frykholm provides an in-depth account of the emergence of the motion picture business in the United States and its development throughout the silent era. Through the lens of Kleine's fascinating career, this book explores how motion pictures gradually transformed from a novelty into an economic and cultural institution central to both American life and an increasingly globalised culture of mass entertainment."--Bloomsbury Publishing UR - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838710453?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections ER -