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Lackawanna Railroad, 253 , 263
Lacombe, Judge E. Henry, 333
Laemmle, Carl, 27 ;
and film exchange, 328 -29, 374 , 380 , 434 , 443 -44;
and film production companies, 445 , 463 , 471
Lake Shore Film and Supply Company, 399
Langtry, Lillie, 466
Lantern shows, 66 , 186 , 200 -201, 207 , 218 -19, 220 , 304 , 517 n.75, 523 n.25. See also Illustrated lectures
Lantern slides, 226 ;
combined with films, 122 -24, 129 -31, 136 , 278 -79;
depicting dreams and visions, 200 -201;
and dissolves, 172 ;
editorial organization of, 183 ;
made for illustrated lectures, 144 ;
providing "visual newspaper," 141 . See also Illustrated lectures; Illustrated songs; Magic lantern; Travelogues
Lasky, Jesse, 473
Latham, Woodville, 45
Latham family: and eidoloscope, 57 , 60 ,
and Kinetoscope Exhibition Company, 45 -46, 47 -49
Latham loop, 379
Lauste, Eugene, 30
Lawrence, Florence, 336 , 337 , 337 -39, 534 n.47
Leacock, Richard, 476
Léger, Fernand, 476
Lehigh Valley Railroad, 95 -96, 97 , 98 -99
Leigh, Fred W., 348
Leonard, Marion, 463
Leonard, Michael, 47
Leslie's Weekly , 163
Levy, David, 254 , 259 , 492 n.12, 509 -10n.72, 529 n.148
Lewis, Max, 328 , 438 , 443 . See also Chicago Film Exchange
Leyda, Jay, 521 n.28, 542 n.184
Library of Congress, 4 , 232 -33, 244 , 286 -87, 320 , 321
Lighting, 392 ;
complaints about, 422 , 426 , 451 ;
Cooper-Hewitt lights, 388 ;
Lights and Shadows of a Great City (lantern show), 523 n.25
Lincoln, Abraham, 186 , 415 -16
Lipton, Sir Thomas, 143
Little Christopher Columbus (musical burlesque), 51
Local views, 65 -66, 96 -98, 251 , 284 , 378 -79, 537 n.30. See also Actualities
Lombard, Thomas, 45
London Daily Mail , 132
Long, William J. (nature writer), 351
Los Angeles Herald , 82
Los Angeles Times , 82 , 83 , 84 , 368
The Lost Paradise (melodrama), 89 -90
Louisana Purchase Exposition (1904), 278 -79
Low, Seth, 191
Lubin, Sigmund, 114 , 115 , 237 , 439
—dupes Edison films, 197
—dupes foreign films, 239 , 253
—exhibition service, 155 , 163
—member of Association of Edison Licensees, 376 , 382
—member of Motion Picture Patents Co., 437 , 442
—productions, 140 , 146 , 197 , 218 , 253 , 286 , 310 , 314 , 334 , 417 , 427 ;
films remade by Edison, 174 , 180 , 286 , 515 n.35;
remakes Edison subjects, 163 , 244 -45, 310
—sued by Edison for copyright infringement, 197 , 207 -8, 213 , 237 -38, 244
—sued by Edison for patent infringement, 115 , 333 ;
flees to Germany, 178 ;
returns from Germany, 197
—theaters owned by, 398
Lubin Manufacturing Company. See Lubin, Sigmund
Lucy Daley's Pickaninnies, 50
Lumière, Auguste and Louis, 60
—cinématographe, 58 , 59 , 68 -69, 87 -88, 91 , 98 , 117 -18, 507 n.25;
U.S. premiere of, 87 ;
versus vitascope, 87 , 88 , 98 , 502 n.48
—film productions of, 98 , 162 , 260 , 317 , 506 n.168
—films acquired by Raff & Gammon, 67
—Maguire & Baucus as agent for, 115
—and quality of film stock, 265 , 266
—as source for Edison films, 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 -69, 94 , 102