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Motion Pictures 1894–1912 Identified from the Records of the United States Copyright Office
COPYRIGHT OFFICE ☆ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
For sale by the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D. C. Price $2
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_Page_ Motion Pictures, 1894–1912 1 Claimant Index 71
_Motion Pictures, 1894–1912_, is a catalog of those copyrighted works identified as motion pictures by Howard Lamarr Walls which were produced during the pioneer period of the motion picture industry. Inasmuch as this catalog includes information supplied by Mr. Walls which does not appear in the records of the Copyright Office, it is not considered a part of the regular _Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series_. It supplements, however, the two volumes in the Cumulative Series, _Motion Pictures, 1912–1939_ and _Motion Pictures, 1940–1949_. These three volumes, together with the current issues of the _Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13, Motion Pictures and Filmstrips_, comprise an unbroken record of the copyright registration of motion pictures and, also, an extensive although incomplete record of motion picture production in the United States through the entire history of the industry.
The catalog lists 8,506 works, representing approximately 6,000 titles, which were registered in the Copyright Office as photographs and identified as motion pictures by Mr. Walls. In making this identification, the record books in the Copyright Office were searched for the years 1893 through 1913. The first such registration found is the _Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894_, copyright date January 9, 1894, and the last is the _Feast of Belshazzar_, copyright date January 23, 1913. Twenty-four motion pictures were registered in Class J, photographs, between August 24, 1912, the effective date of the amendment to the copyright law establishing classes for motion pictures, and the end of the year 1913. These twenty-four motion pictures are listed in this catalog.