Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History

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Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History
by Q. David Bowers

Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History is the most complete study ever done of an early American motion picture company. Produced with the cooperation and support from the Library of Congress, the CD-ROM includes a narrative history of the company from 1909 to 1918, augmented by hundreds of reviews, biographies, photographs, magazine advertisements, illustrations and film clips from the activities of the Thanhouser film enterprise.

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Collected from public archives, private collections, family photo albums, and trade publications of the day, this extensive compilation of materials provides a new and unique perspective of Thanhouser as one of the pioneers in the early film industry. The text was researched and written by noted historian Q. David Bowers, with a foreword by film historian Anthony Slide. Developed with modern computer technology, this easy-to-use research tool sets a new standard for its depth of content of an American motion picture studio from the silent era, and is intended for use by film scholars, researchers, and cinephiles

FEATURES	BENEFITS
ü “Point and click” user interface	ü Intuitive navigation, easy to use
ü On-line Help command	ü Quick access to command usage
ü Powerful full-text search capabilities	ü Instant access to over 3,000 topics
ü Keyword index command	ü Pre-defined indexes for Narrative History, Filmography and Biographies
ü Bookmark, Annotation, and Copy commands	ü Powerful tools for serious research
ü Print Command	ü On-demand printing of any topic
ü Image gallery with text captions	ü Locate images by searching captions
ü Includes .TIF and .BMP images	ü High quality images for scholary reports

Runs on Microsoft Windows, requires Intel 486 or higher CPU, 8MB Memory and 13 MB free disk space.

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