M
McAllister, Jessie, 392
Macart's Dog and Monkey Circus, 80
McClellan, Mayor George Brinton, 428
McCoy, Joseph, 266 -67, 278 , 381 , 384 , 416 -17
McCutcheon, Wallace:
leaves, 335 ;
returns, 384
leaves, 384 ;
as Porter's collaborator, 161 , 291 -92, 302 , 312 , 314 -15, 325 , 329 , 334 , 336 -37, 338 -40, 349 , 360 , 364 -67, 390
McDermott, Marc, 463
McGlynn, Frank, 456
McGovern, Terry, 139 -40
McGraw, John, 322
MacKaye, Steele, 305 -7
McKinley, Pres. William, 187
—films and slides of, 69 , 101 , 176 , 186 ;
inauguration (1897), 98 -99;
inauguration (1901), 161 ;
at Pan-American Exposition, 184 -86, 517 n.66, 518 n.85
—and Spanish-American War, 127 , 130
McLoughlin, Edmund, 87
Magic lantern, 23 , 83 , 167 . See also Lantern shows; Lantern slides
Magniscope projector, 92 . See also Amet, Edward H.
Magowan, Kenneth, 232 , 254 , 491 -92n.4
Maguire, Franck (Franz) Z., 46 , 115 , 127
Maguire &: Baucus, 46 -47, 49 , 115 , 507 n.21. See also Continental Commerce Company
Maher, James H., 374
Mail and Express . See New York Mail and Express
"Maine" (battleship), 126 -28
Mambert, S. B., 472
Mannie (the Edison dog), 173 -74, 268 , 271 , 311 , 312 , 318 -19, 344 , 344 , 375 , 377
Marble, Scott, 256
Marey, Étienne-Jules, 31
Marion, Francis J., 329 , 335 , 439 , 456 -57
Markgraf, William, 13 ;
heads Edison's Kinetograph Department, 236 , 252 ;
purchases defective Lumière film stock, 265 , 266 ;
purchases kinetoscopes, 45
Marks, F. Croydon, 335
Martin, Lee, 50
Martinetti, William, 240 , 391 , 525 n.72
Marvin, Harry Norton, 156 , 379 , 434 , 437 -38, 439 ;
on cinema, 163
Mass communication: cinema as, 372 , 401 , 402 , 406 -7
Mast, Gerald, 232 -33, 491 -92n.4, 492 -93n.13, 521 -22n.30
Matching action, 225 . See also Editing
Matthews, Harry C., 449 , 452 -53, 455 -56
Mayne, Judith, 179
Maysles, Albert and David, 476
Medea (travesty), 22
Méliès, Gaston, 239 -40
Méliès, Georges, 2 , 162 , 200 , 230 , 511 n.115;
copyrights films in U.S., 240 ;
film production, 240 , 253 , 417 , 516 n.65;
films distributed through New York office, 239 -40, 241 , 277 , 335 ;
films duped by American producers, 192 , 196 , 209 , 238 ;
films emulated by Porter, 172 , 200 -201, 209 ;
films exhibited on U.S. screens, 139 , 172 , 178 ;
member of Association of Edison Licensees, 377 ;
and Motion Picture Patents Co., 438 , 440 ;
representational techniques, 209 , 226 -27, 231 ;
sued by Edison for patent infringement, 333 ;
use of dissolves, 172 ;
waning role in industry, 277
Melodramas, 292 -303, 305 -7, 332 , 407 -9, 421 -22, 424 , 461 -62, 465 -70, 534 n.47
Men:
—as audiences, 40 , 47 , 107 , 179 -80, 246 -47, 346 -47
—as film subjects, 200 , 280 -82;
as audiences in films, 104 , 105 , 107 , 179 -80, 246 , 251 , 252 ;
homosocial world on film, 32 -35, 39 -42, 47 -49, 94 -95, 113 -14, 253 -59, 343 -47, 494 n.34
—homosocial work patterns among, 18 , 32 -35, 39 -40, 47 -49, 107 , 212 -23
Menzies, William Cameron, 539 -40n.80
Merry, Harley, 288 -89
Metz, Christian, 179
Mexican Central Railroad, 109
Michelson, Annette, 494 n.27
Michtom, Morris, 349
Middle class, 23 , 24 , 292 -304, 305 -11, 312 -17, 327 -28, 473
Miles Brothers, 374 , 377 , 520 n.146, 537 n.30
Milk White Flag (musical farce), 51
Millais, John Everett, 220
Miller, Arthur, 459
Miller, Ashley, 454 , 455 , 455 , 464
Miner's Bowery Theater, 91
Miner's Eighth Avenue Theater, 192
Minstrel shows, 275 , 319 , 321 -22, 378 , 396 , 396 -397
Miss Jerry (picture play), 78 , 82
Mitchell, Mason, 146
Molnár, Ferenc, 399
Monroe, Marilyn, 179
Montgomery, David, 6
Moore, Alex T., 13 ;
heads Kinetograph Department, 265 -67, 368 , 384 -85, 450 ;
leaves Edison Co., 453
Moore, Annabelle. See Whitford, Annabelle
Moore, Clement Clarke, 340
Morse, Salmi, 121
Mosher, Norman H., 268 , 271 , 515 n.33, 537 n.12
Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPCo), 1 , 13 , 178 , 455 -56, 459 , 463 , 471 , 473 , 545 n.31;
initial agreements, 438 -42;
process of formation, 432 , 433 -38. See also Association of Edison Licensees
Mottershaw, Frank, 3
Moulton, William, 449
Mount Pelee, 208
Moving Picture World (MPW ), 376 , 394 , 395 , 402 , 415 -16, 422 , 428 , 431 , 433 , 437 , 447 , 459 , 466 , 469
Mulhall, Lucille, 323
Münsterberg, Hugo, 194
Murdock, John J., 444
Murphy, Dudley, 476
Murphy, Richard, 391 , 410 , 412 , 466 , 539 -40n.80
Murray, Mae, 525 n.59
Museum of Modern Art, 4 , 14 , 232 -33, 321 , 491 -92n.4
Musical accompaniment for films: kinetophone, 53 -55;
vitascope, 62