Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Moderator: Grazia Ingravalle (Brunel University London)
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – American Delsartism, Gestural Meaning, and Crafting Physical Performance in Early Biograph Films
Mark Williams (Dartmouth College) – Key Frames to Cinema History: New Studies of The Exhibitor Catalogs of The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Paul Spehr (independent) – Biograph and Edison Standard: The Shape (and Size) of Things to Come