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A Race for a Wife (play), 407 , 542 n.142
Racial prejudice, 20 , 303 , 312 -14. See also Anti-Semitism
Raff, Norman C., 45 , 58 , 65 , 70 -71, 505 n.121;
incorporates Vitascope Co., 70 . See also Raft & Gammon
Raff & Gammon. See also Gammon, Frank R.;
Raff, Norman C.; Vitascope; Vitascope Company
—and kinetoscopes: decline in business, 53 -56;
form Kinetoscope Co., 44 -45;
initial marketing of business, 44 -47;
involvement in film production, 49 -53, 56 ;
liquidate Kinetoscope Co., 70 ;
market kinetophone, 53 -56;
want Edison to invent projector, 53
—and vitascope: incorporate Vitascope Co., 70 ;
and plans for exploitation of, 58 -60;
reach agreements with Armat and Edison, 57 -58;
relations with Armat and Edison, 70 -71;
rename phantoscope, 58 ;
role of, in film production, 64 -70;
sell rights to, 70 -74
Railway films, 66 -67, 95 -96, 97, 98 , 99 -100, 105 , 106 , 180 , 191 , 241 , 286 -87, 316 -17;
comic relief in, 261 , 262 -64, 287 ;
Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World, 264 -65;
viewer-as-passenger convention in, 260 -65, 287
Ramsaye, Terry, 2 , 53 , 69 , 121 , 156 , 201 , 212 , 213 , 231 , 275 , 292 , 438 , 492 -93n.13, 505 n.147, 511 -12n.130, 529 n.145, 536 n.77
Ranous, William V., 449 , 536 n.77
Ray, Carrie Louis, 78
Raymond, Mellville B., 268
Realism, 55 , 62 , 63 , 83 , 84 , 167 , 211 , 259 , 264 -65, 293 -94, 306 -7, 308 -9, 331 , 388 , 401 -2, 416 , 420
Reception of films, factors in: audience foreknowledge, 182 , 202 , 203 , 243 -44, 340 -53, 393 -94, 403 , 407 , 420 -21, 494 n.28;
crisis in audience comprehension, 393 -96, 400 -403, 418 -19, 422 -24, 426 , 446 -53;
genre-based expectations, 218 -21, 255 -56;
ideological "slippage" and nickelodeons, 320 -21, 328 , 355 ;
reliance on lecture, dialogue, or effects, 182 , 202 , 205 , 243 , 359 -67, 369 , 393 -94, 407 ;
self-sufficient narratives within film, 198 -200, 260 , 353 -59, 367
Rector, Enoch, 45
Reenactments, 146 , 188 -90, 193 -94, 257 -59, 307 -8, 427 , 518 n.85
Reichert, Julia, 476
Religious films, 287 -89
Religious institutions, 23 , 66 , 328 , 427 -28, 431 , 536 n.94
Remakes. See also Duping
—by Edison or Porter of films made by: Biograph, 95 -96, 99 , 102 , 170 , 208 , 245 , 273 , 274 , 276 , 280 -82, 312 -13, 340 , 422 ;
Edison, 101 , 198 -99, 421 -22;
Lubin, 174 , 180 , 286 , 515 n.35;
Lumière, 65 , 67 , 68 -69, 101 ;
Smith, 245 -46;
Williamson, 219 -20
—remakes of Edison films by others, 198 -200, 244 -45
Renters. See Film exchanges
Representational practices. See also Cine-matography; Editing; Exhibitors; Film production; Narrative; Set design; Temporality
—crisis in and shift toward proto-Hollywood system, 393 -407
—interrelationship of techniques, 200 , 211 , 226 , 309 , 351
Representational practices (continued )
—mismatches in screen direction, 351
—presentationalism, 8 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 226 , 245 ;
assault on spectator, 63 , 79 , 94 , 95 , 95 -96, 97 , 264 ;
display, 41, 42 , 94 , 94 , 106 , 107 , 245 , 246 -49, 268 ;
frontal compositions, 31 , 101 , 150 , 242 , 247-48 , 288 ;
performers and objects isolated against plain background, 31 , 31 , 32 , 33, 40 , 41 , 42 , 65 , 84 , 102 , 114 , 246 -47, 250 , 264 , 524 n.48
—shift toward proto-Hollywood system, 7 , 372 , 403 -7, 461 , 469 , 477
—shots conceived as self-contained units, 201 -2, 224 -25, 226 , 242 -43, 309 , 351
—syncreticism, 8 , 167 , 172 , 211 , 226 , 249 , 274 , 285 , 287 , 351 -52, 409
Republican party, 183
Resistance to rationalization and efficiency, 6 , 7 , 11 , 24 , 27 , 355 , 392 -93, 394 , 406 -7, 417 -18, 433 , 449 -50, 458 , 475 -77, 535 n.74
Rex Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 460 -63, 464 , 465 , 466 , 469
Rice, Edward E., 50
Richard, Jacques, 233
Ridgely, Cleo, 461
Riis, Jacob, 523 n.25
Rip Van Winkle (play), 242
Rising, Will S., 268 -72, 269 , 292 , 297 , 424 , 459
Robetta and Doreto, 50
Rob Roy (musical comedy), 51
Roosevelt, Theodore, 135 , 322 , 368 , 369 -70
burlesqued on film, 163 -66, 169 -71, 275 , 303 -4, 349 -51;
Ross, Duncan C., 50
Rothapfel, S. F., 470
Ruhlin, Gus, 191
Russo-Japanese War, 273 -74, 322 -23
Rychner, Jean, 228 -29