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Vardac, A. Nicholas, 201 , 365
Variety , 325 , 349 , 360 , 382 , 394 , 409 , 413 , 415 -16, 423 , 425 , 430 , 434 , 469 -70
Vaudeville: compared to cinema, 429 ;
depicted in films, 251 -52, 252 ;
film as a permanent feature on bill, 141 , 151 ;
impact on film production, 158 ;
and novelty, 81 ;
as venue for exhibition services, 144
Velle, Gaston, 341
Veriscope Company, 139
Verisimilitude, 8 , 62 -64, 163 . See also Realism
Viascope projector, 442
Victoria, Queen, 119 -20
Victoria, Vesta, 333 , 347 , 396 , 397 -98
Views and Film Index , 347 , 357 -58, 374 , 427
Vincent, Henry C., 121
Visual newspaper. See Cinema . . . as a visual newspaper
Vitagraph Company of America. See American Vitagraph Company
Vitascope (Edison's vitascope), 1 , 73 ;
and activities of Connellsville group, 73 -86, 88 -91, 503 n.54;
exhibition fees charged for, 60 , 72 ;
exhibition methods used, 63 -64;
local openings, 77 -78, 82 , 83 ;
New York premiere, 59 , 60 -64;
an outmoded machine, 92 ;
phantoscope renamed, 59 , 501 n.7;
press screening, 59 -60;
private screening for Edison, 59 ;
quantity produced, 92
Vitascope Company: and competitors, 86 -89, 91 -92;
and Connellsville group, 73 -86;
decline and demise of, 91 -93, 505 n.150;
Edison's break with, 92 -93;
organization and incorporation of, 70 ;
"states rights" method of exploitation, 70 -74, 75 , 87 , 92 , 502 n.48. See also Raft & Gammon
Von Stroheim, Erich, 7
Voyeurism, 40 , 44 , 114 , 179 -80, 246 -47, 267 ;
male, 346