Articles

“The Media History Digital Library,” The Journal of Film Preservation, No. 88, April 2013.

“Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage is Part of the Public Domain,” Film History, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007.

“Copyright, Preservation and Archives: An Interview with Eric Schwartz,” The Moving Image, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2009.

“‘Carl Laemmle’s Outstanding Achievement’: Harry Pollard and the Struggle to Film Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927),” Film History, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1998.

“Senile Celluloid: Independent Exhibitors, the Major Studios and the Fight Over Feature Films On Television: 1939-1956,” Film History, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1998.

“The Legion of the Condemned: Why American Silent Films Perished,” Film History, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1997. Reprinted in “This Film Is Dangerous,” Roger Smither,…

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“Success With a Dollar Sign: Costs and Grosses for the Early Films of Cecil B. DeMille,” in Paolo Cherchi Usai, Lorenzo Codelli (eds.), The DeMille…

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“Who Owns the Movies?,” Film Comment, November-December, 1994. (co-author with Elliot Forbes).

“Silent Movies and the Kodascope Libraries,” American Cinematographer, January 1989.

“Copyright Lost,” American Film, October 1985.