In order of mention, all films in Eileen Boswer's contribution (vol. 2) to the University of California Press History of the American Cinema, edited by Charles Harpole, exploring how films went from nickelodeons and coin-operated viewers to grand movie palaces over a short time, increasing lengths and changing styles of films, the use of editing, the shift from interest in studio brand names to cast and creative teams, the legal battles between Edison and independent studios over the alleged patent violation of the Latham Loop, overthrown in 1912, the journey from New York/New Jersey through Jacksonville to Chicago to Hollywood as filmmaking hubs, the development of feature films, popular genres (Western, Indian, Civil War, slapstick, newsreel, detective/serial/feminist, prohibition, and labor), advancements in film technique including tracking shots, double exposure, and split screen, when possible, the films themselves, as many are lost. Red and White Roses gets a deep dissection.
