W
Waddell, William E., 474
Wade, John, 392
Wagner, Richard, 288
Wagner from Within and Without (illustrated lecture), 288
Waite Comedy Company, 96
Waiting at the Church (song), 14 , 347 -49, 396 , 397
Walkover Shoe Company, 370 , 378
Wallace, Judge William James, 196 , 197 , 333
Walter, Gustave, 77
Walton, Charles, 50
War films (acted), 146 -48, 150 -51, 181 -84, 273 -74, 415 -16
"Wargraph" projector, 129 -131, 133. See also American Cinematograph Company; Spanish-American War
Waring, Bertha, 51
Warner brothers, 328
Warwick Trading Company, 196 ;
Washington, Booker T., 275
Waters, Percival, 155-56 , 527 n.128;
approves hiring of Alex Moore, 265 -66;
and film production, 280 -81, 368 ;
on office space, 159 -60, 333 . See also Kinetograph Company
Weber, Lois, 454 , 461 , 463 , 465 , 470
Webster, Charles H.: joins Raft & Gammon, 56 ;
and kinetoscope exhibition, 45 , 56 ;
leaves Raft & Gammon, 92 ;
takes vitascope to Europe, 60 ;
works for Edison Co., 513 n.168
Webster, Frank, 368
Weed, A. E., 291
Weller, G. J., 93
Welles, Orson, 1
Welton, Professor Harry (owner of cat circus), 50
Westchester Athletic Club, 139 -40
Westerns, 254 , 360 -63, 407 , 460 -61
Westinghouse Company, 25
Wheeler, Judge Hoyt Henry, 176 -78
White, Arthur S., 200 , 209 , 240 , 520 n.131, 520 n.2
White, Grace Miller, 469
White, James Henry, 10
—as actor and singer, 148 , 150 , 187 , 212 -14, 225 , 508 n.36
—with Edison Co.: film production (1896-1897), 93 -102, 146 -54;
as head of Kinetograph Department (1896-1903), 13 , 93 , 140 -41, 145 , 146 , 158 , 161 , 197 , 339 , 513 n.168;
and Life of an American Fireman , 212 -20;
at Pan-American Exposition and McKinley funeral (1901), 175 -76;
rehired by Edison Co., 453 , 458 ;
trip to California, Mexico, and the Far East (1897-1898), 105 -12, 114 , 125 , 285 , 506 n.2, 506 -7nn.5, 6 ;
trip to Europe (1902), 197 -98;
trip to Paris Exposition (1900), 152 -53;
trip to West Coast and Mexico (1901-1902), 191 -92;
trip to West Indies (1902), 240 , 285
—exhibits kinetoscope with Holland
Brothers, 45
—as head of Edison's European office, 235 -36;
sends European films to U.S. office for duping, 239 , 277
—as independent exhibitor, 45 ;
sells kinetoscopes and returns to phonograph business, 56
—and Kinetograph Company, 155 -56
—marries Pauline Dede, 213
—with Raft & Gammon, 60 ;
helps incorporate Vitascope Co., 70 ;
involved in film production, 64 -70
Whitford, Annabelle, 40 -41, 87 , 102
Whittier, Robert, 288
The Widow Jones (musical comedy), 65 , 80
Wilder, Marshall, 143
Williams, Brown & Earle, 376 , 379 -80, 435
Williams, Percy, 133
Williamson, James, 3 , 206 -7, 219 , 238 , 259
Willis, Susanna, 338
Wilson, Charles H., 416 -17, 448 , 450 , 453 -54, 472
Wilson, John W., 51
Winchester (play), 101
Women:
—as film subjects, 198 -99, 245 , 280 -82, 300 -302, 305 -7;
assuming male roles, 280 ;
as objects of male desire, 40 -41, 42 , 60 , 64 , 65 , 93 -94, 102 , 107 , 113 -14, 114 , 179 , 180 , 198 -99, 246 -48, 262 -64;
old maids, 167 -69, 245 , 280 -82, 304 ;
subservient to patriarchy, 55 , 60 , 346 -47, 355 ;
—as spectators: in heterosocial framework, 42 -44, 180 ;
in homosocial framework, 31 , 42 -44
Woods, Frank, 403 , 415 , 422 , 451 , 460 -61
Working methods: collaborative approach to invention, 25 , 32 -35, 105 , 293 ;
and leisure, 34 , 39 , 42 , 105 , 245 , 249 -51;
nonhierarchical, 33 -35;
regimentation of, 355 , 535 n.74. See also Collabora-
Working methods (continued )
tive system of film production; Exhibitors; Film production
Workplace films, 32 -35, 35 , 39 , 42 , 51 , 67 , 102 , 245 -48, 355
World Film Manufacturing Company, 459 , 548 n.8
World's Columbian Exposition, 32 , 39 , 144 , 498 -99n. 15
Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Circus, 119 -20, 249 -50, 250 , 515 n.33