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Performing New Media, 1890-1915
Twelfth International Domitor Conference
University of Brighton, 2012
Programme
MONDAY 18th June 2012
8:30 Pastries and beverages; registration
9:00 Welcomes by Anne Boddington (Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton);
Frank Gray (Director, Screen Archive South East); Scott Curtis (President, Domitor)
9:30 Panel 1: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performing “Non-Fiction”
Panel Chair: Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)
Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University), “Circulating and Exhibiting Moving Pictures of the Australian
Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913)”
Rositza Alexandrova (University of Cambridge), “Cinegrammes from the Ilinden Uprising”
Rielle Navitski (University of California, Berkeley), “‘Mixtures of Féerie and Document’: Sensational
Theater and True-Crime Films in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1908-1913”
10:30 Break
10:40 Panel 2: Sallis Benney Theatre
Music, Opera, and Song
Panel Chair: Frank Gray (University of Brighton)
Beatrice Birardi (Società Italiana di Musicologia), “From ‘Chamber’ to Cinema: The Music by Carlo
Graziani Walter for Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Italy, 1913)”
Bernhard Kuhn (Bucknell University), “Intermediality Italian Style: Operaticality and Metareferentiality in
the Cinema of the Early 1910s”
Jaume Radigales (Université Ramon Llull, Barcelona) and and Isabel Villanueva (Universitat Internacional
de Catalunya, Barcelona), “Le rôle de l’opéra dans le cinéma primitif : Étude des cas”
Anupama Kapse (Queens College, City University of New York), “Song and Dance in the Indian Silent
Film”
Panel 3: Boardroom at Grand Parade
Exhibition beyond Theatres and Cinemas
Panel Chair: Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar)
Jon Burrows (University of Warwick), “Automatic Recreation: Early Cinema and the Amusement
Arcade”
Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), “‘Denizens of the Deep’: F. Martin Duncan, Natural History
Filmmaking, and the Brighton Aquarium”
Oksana Chefranova (New York University), “The Screen in the Garden: Moving Image Shows in Moscow
circa 1900”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Panel 4: Sallis Benney Theatre
Music, Colour, and Sound
Panel Chair: Denis Condon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Christopher Natzén (National Library of Sweden), “‘Such Music Cannot Be Regarded as Real or Genuine
Art’: Swedish Cinema Musicians in 1908-1909”
Mélissa Gignac (Université Paris VII), “Le son dans les années 1910 : un exemple d’autonomisation
progressive des films”
Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Lyrical Education: Music and Color in Early
Nonfiction Film”
Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews), “Colour as Performance in Visual Music, Film Tinting, and
Digital Painting”
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Panel 5: Boardroom at Grand Parade
Picture Personalities
Panel Chair: Frédéric Tabet (Université Paris-Est)
Charles O’Brien (Carleton University), “Actors’ Performances in the Griffith Biograph Films, before and
after the Move to California”
Laura Horak (Stockholm University), “Performing the Film Director: Mauritz Stiller and Vingarne”
Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Performers – On Stage and Now on Screen”
Chris O’Rourke (University of Cambridge), “In the Flesh: Personal Appearances and the Picture
Personality in Britain before 1915”
2:30 Break
2:50 Panel 6: Sallis Benney Theatre
Historiography, Nation, and Performance
Panel Chair: Natascha Drubek (University of Regensburg)
Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal/Université de Lausanne), “L’historiographie de la performance
dans le cinéma des premiers temps et l’émergence de l’histoire universitaire du cinéma”
Gunnar Iversen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Performing New Media and the
Creation of National Identity: Kräusslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910”
Stephen Putnam Hughes (University of London), “Performing Authority at the Cinema in Victorian India”
4:10 Break
4:40 Panel 7: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performance and Pedagogy
Panel Chair: Sarah Dellmann (Utrecht University)
Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University), “Health on Display: The Panama Pacific Exposition (1915) as
Sanitary Venue”
Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk (Utrecht University), “The Kinoreformbewegung Revisited: Performing the
Cinematograph as a Pedagogical Tool”
David Williams (independent scholar), “The Letchworth Experiment, 1913-1917”
Kaveh Askari (University of Western Washington), “The Artist’s Studio on Display: Workspace as
Educational Space”
6:00 Evening Event: Blackwell book reception
TUESDAY 19th June 2012
8:30 Pastries and beverages
9:00 Panel 8: Sallis Benney Theatre
Vaudeville and Comedy
Panel Chair: Charlie Keil (University of Toronto)
Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame), “McCay and Keaton: The Intermediality of Vaudeville,
Animation and Slapstick Cinema”
Maggie Hennefeld (Brown University), “Performing Film Form: Vaudeville Theater and Early Motion
Picture Comedy”
Gwendolyn Waltz (independent scholar), “20 Minutes or Less: Short-Form Film-and-Theatre Hybrids—
Skits, Sketches, Playlets, & Acts in Vaudeville, Variety, Revues, &c.”
Pierre Chemartin and Santiago Hidalgo (Université de Montréal), “Learning Film Performance through
Comics”
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Panel 9: Room G4
Transnational Corridors: Southeast Asia, the Americas, Scandinavia
Panel Chair: Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal/Université de Lausanne)
Nadi Tofighian (Stockholm University), “Circuit of Commerce and Cinema: Singapore and the Southeast Asian
Film Market”
Joel Frykholm (Stockholm University), “From Movie Palace to Media Spaces: New Perspectives on the
Exhibition Contexts of the Multi-Reel Feature Film, 1913–1915”
John Fullerton (Stockholm University), “Reframing the Panorama in Mexico: Early Actuality Film and
Nineteenth-Century Lithographs and Photographs”
Anne Bachmann (Stockholm University), “Trajectories between Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm: What
Norwegian Male Stars Brought to Swedish Biograph, 1913–1915”
10:20 Break
10:40 Panel 10: Sallis Benney Theatre
Old and New Media
Panel Chair: Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews)
André Gaudreault (Université de Montréal) and Philippe Marion (Université de Louvain), “D’un tournant
de siècle à l’autre : l’animation restaurée”
Wanda Strauven (University of Amsterdam), “The Performing Screens of Early Cinema”
Andrea Haller (Deutsches Filminstitut), “Presenting New Media of the Nineteenth Century in the
Context of the Twenty-First-Century Museum: The Case of the German Film Museum in Frankfurt”
Katherine Groo (University of Aberdeen), “Cut, Paste, Glitch, and Stutter: Remixing Early Film (History)”
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Panel 11: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performing Resistance
Panel Chair: Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Natascha Drubek (University of Regensburg), “Unruly Projectionists and Censorship in the Cinema of
Tsarist Russia”
Denis Condon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “‘Offensive and Riotous Behaviour’? Regulating
Irish Cinema Audiences in the mid-1910s”
Alison Griffiths (Baruch College, City University of New York), “Old New Media: The Time Warp Case
of Motion Pictures in Prison”
2:40 Break
3:00 Special Session: Sallis Benney Theatre
Digital Technologies and New Media circa 1900
Panel Chair: Frank Gray (University of Brighton)
Panelists: Richard Crangle (Lucerna database), Bryony Dixon (BFI), Luke McKernan (The Bioscope), Ned
Thanhouser (Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.)
4:20 Break
4:30 Panel 12: Sallis Benney Theatre
Magic Lantern
Panel Chair: Martin Loiperdinger (University of Trier)
Valentine Robert (Université de Lausanne/Université de Montréal), “De la page à la performance, de la
toile à l’écran − ou comment la nouvelle culture des médias s’approprie et transforme le tableau
vivant”
M. Magdalena Brotons Capó (Universitat de les illes Balears, España), “Les plaques de lanterne magique à
l’origine de l’image cinématographique”
Sarah Dellmann (Utrecht University), “Getting to Know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Series on the
Netherlands Considered as Screen Practice”
Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier), “Screening Sensations and Live Performance”
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6:00 Break
8:15 Evening Event: “Dickensian Light and Magic: Dickens, the Magic Lantern, and
the History of Entertainment” with Joss Marsh (writer/performer), Stephen Horne (piano) and
David Francis (lanternist)
WEDNESDAY 20th June 2012
8:30 Pastries and beverages
9:00 Panel 13: Sallis Benney Theatre
Narrators
Panel Chair: Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier)
Alain Boillat (Université de Lausanne), “Projections fixes / animées : approche historiographique et
théorique de la « conférence »”
Judith Buchanan (University of York), “‘Guttersnipe’ Dialects and ‘élocution soignée’: The Ranging
Cultural Performance Registers of Early Cinema Lecturers”
May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster), “A Late ‘Early’ Cinema: Orality and Siam’s 16mm Era”
Martin Loiperdinger (University of Trier), “Missing Believed Lost: The Film Narrator, Then and Now”
Panel 14: Room G4
Parallel Exhibition Histories, 1860-1914
Panel Chair: Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)
John Plunkett (University of Exeter), “Variety, Visuality and Town-Hall Venues: The Show-Business
Legacy of Touring Panoramas and Dioramas”
Joe Kember (University of Exeter), “The ‘Home of Animated Photography’: The Long Institutional
History of British Town Hall Picture Shows”
Rosalind Leveridge (University of Exeter), “‘A Complete Entertainment from the Moment They Enter’:
Cinema and Community in the Coastal Resorts of the South West, 1909-1914”
10:15 Break
10:40 Panel 15: Sallis Benney Theatre
Shadows and Circuses
Panel Chair: Kaveh Askari (University of Western Washington)
Thierry Lecointe (chercheur indépendant), “Entre nouveauté et continuité : Le spectacle
cinématographique, une remanence du théâtre d’ombres français?”
Marco Bellano (Università degli Studi di Padova), “The Sound of the Shadows: The Aesthetics of Music
for Shadow Plays in Late-Nineteenth-Century France”
Canan Balan (Istanbul Sehir University), “Early Multimedia Performances in Istanbul at the Turn of the
Century”
Annie Fee (University of Washington), “Circus and Cinema: A Fairground Audience at the Gaumont-
Palace”
12:00 Lunch
1:20 Panel 16: Sallis Benney Theatre
Literature, Visuality, and Early Film
Panel Chair: David Williams (independent scholar)
Laura Marcus (Oxford University), “Conrad’s Figurative Understandings of the Cinema”
Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), “G. A. Smith and Henry James: Visuality and Fiction-
Making circa 1900”
2:20 Break
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2:30 Special Session: Sallis Benney Theatre
Brighton 1978/2012
Session Chair: Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Panelists: Philippe Gauthier (Université de Montréal/Université de Lausanne) and Brian Real (University of
Maryland), David Francis (Indiana University), André Gaudreault (Université de Montréal), Paul
Spehr (independent scholar)
4:00 Sessions end
6:00 Evening Event: “The Brighton School – Revisited”
New approaches and insights on the work on G. A. Smith and James Williamson with Frank Gray
(lecturer) and Stephen Horne (piano); presented at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, the UK’s oldest
functioning cinema
THURSDAY 21st June 2012
8:30 Pastries and beverages
9:00 Panel 17: Sallis Benney Theatre
Technology I
Panel Chair: Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar)
Benoît Turquety (Université de Lausanne), “L’histoire des techniques comme source pour l’histoire des
pratiques performatives”
Katharina Loew (University of Oregon), “Specters of the Theater: 3-D Cinema in the 1910s”
Doron Galili (Oberlin College), “The Invention that Will Out-Edison Edison: Early Cinema and Moving
Image Transmission”
Ted Hovet (Western Kentucky University), “From Circle to Oblong: Standardizing the Borders of the
Projected Image in the 1890s”
William Boddy (Baruch College, City University of New York), “The Spectacle of Technology: Cinema
and Outdoor Advertising in Early-Twentieth-Century Visual Culture”
Panel 18: Room G4
Performance Beyond the Silent Screen: Comedy, Criminality and the Fashioning of a
Multimodal Cinema
Panel Chair: Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
April Miller (University of Northern Colorado), “Vamp until Ready: Parlor Songs, Pseudoscience, and the
Ephemeral Performance of the Silent Screen Vampire”
Vicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “Simulation Platforms for Writing Film History: A Scalar
Presentation on Mabel Normand and Cinematic Performance”
Michele Torre (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), “Transforming Comedic Performance for the ‘New
Media’: Lina Bauer Does Film Comedy”
10:30 Break
10:40 Panel 19: Sallis Benney Theatre
Performing Femininity
Panel Chair: Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University)
Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Lois Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity across
Media”
Liz Clarke (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Old Wars and New Women: Performing Active Femininity”
Diana Anselmo-Sequeira (University of California, Irvine), “‘Neither Here, Nor There, But Everywhere’:
How Early American Film Disembodied Adolescent Girlhood”
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), “When the Law Is the Audience:
Codifying Performance in a New Medium”
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Panel 20: Room G4
Technology II
Panel Chair: Sabine Lenk (Utrecht University)
Richard Brown (independent scholar), “A New Look at Old History”
Paul Spehr (independent scholar), “Scopes, Phones, Graphs and Grams: Movies and Phonographs at the
Introduction of Cinema”
Frank M. Scheide (University of Arkansas), “Freeman Owens: Early Arkansas Home Movie Exhibitor,
Cinematographer, and Inventor of Motion Picture Technology from 1908-1972”
Stephen Herbert (Kingston University, London), “Recreating the First Cameras: A Twelve-Year Project”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Panel 21: Sallis Benney Theatre
Place and Exhibition
Panel Chair: Peter Walsh (University of Sheffield)
Marta Braun (Ryerson University) and Charlie Keil (University of Toronto), “Architecture and
Performance: Toronto’s Screen Media Landscape at the Turn of the Century”
Paul S. Moore (Ryerson University), “Moving Picture Postcards: Local Views in North American Picture
Shows before the Nickelodeon”
Leigh Mercer (University of Washington), “Barcelona on the Move: The Metropolitan Cinemaway at the
Intersection of Tourism, Entertainment, and Urbanism”
Begoña Soto Vázquez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), “Cinema as Extension of the Train and the
Journal: Considering a New Audience for the Cinematograph, Madrid 1900-1912”
2:20 Break
2:40 Special Session: Sallis Benney Theatre
Domitor General Assembly
4:00 Break
4:20 Panel 22: Sallis Benney Theatre
Programming and Performance
Panel Chair: Diana Anselmo-Sequeira (University of California, Irvine)
Laurent Guido (Université de Lausanne) and Laurent Le Forestier (Université de Rennes), “Performance
et projections filmiques : le cinéma des premiers temps comme programmation du spectacle vivant”
Ansje van Beusekom (Utrecht University), “Performing Films in Winter 1904, 1905, and 1906: Albert
Frères and Their Exhibition Skills in Multipurpose Buildings in Dutch Cities”
6:00 Evening Event: Reception at the Royal Pavilion (details to be announced)
Domitor is invited to the Pavilion as the guests of the Mayor of Brighton & Hove (Councillor Bill Randall)
and the City of Brighton & Hove
FRIDAY 22 nd June 2012
8:30 Pastries and beverages
9:00 Panel 23: Sallis Benney Theatre
Fregoli, Reynaud, and Lightning Sketches
Panel Chair: Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame)
Frédéric Tabet (Université Paris-Est), “La transparence du Fregoligraph”
Christelle Odoux (chercheuse indépendante), “L’application par Émile Reynaud de la photographie à son
Théâtre optique : les Photo-peintures animées (1896)”
Jean-Baptiste Massuet (Université Rennes 2), “L’appropriation des Lightning Sketches par le
Cinématographe, de la performance scénique au dessin animé”
Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London), “Performance Times: The Lightning Cartoon
and the Emergence of Animation”
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Panel 24: Room G4
Early Cinema (A)live! Sound, Body Performances, and Media Constructions of
Presence
Panel Chair: Frank Kessler (Utrecht University)
Wolfgang Fuhrmann (University of Zürich), “Listening to the Image: Ethnographic Film’s Long Beginning”
Kristina Köhler (University of Zürich), “Tango Mad and Affected by Cinematographitis: The 1910s Dance
Crazes, Early Cinema, and Rhythmic ‘Contagions’ between Screens and Audiences”
Daniel Wiegand (University of Zürich), “‘Performed Live and Talking. No Kinematograph’: Amateur
Performances of Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900”
Franziska Heller (University of Zürich), “Lumière Re-Mastered? Early Cinema Today and Its ‘Digital
Performance’”
10:20 Break
10:45 Panel 25: Sallis Benney Theatre
Reconsidering Early Japanese Film: Sounds, Stories, and Performances
Panel Chair: Hiroshi Komatsu (Waseda University)
Ryo Okubo (University of Tokyo), “Teachers, Benshi, and Itinerant Entertainers: Magic Lantern
Performances in Japan at the End of the Nineteenth Century”
Sawako Ogawa (University of Tokyo), “From Kodan to Kyugeki: How the Japanese Storytelling Tradition
of Kodan Was Assimilated into Early Japanese Cinema”
Manabu Ueda (Ritsumeikan University), “The Development of Regional Characteristics during the
Emergence of Moving Picture Theaters: A Comparison between Tokyo and Kyoto”
Masaki Daibo (Waseda University), “Reception of Film d’Art and Its Impact on Japanese Sound Culture”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Panel 26: Sallis Benney Theatre
Showmen
Panel Chair: Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)
Caitlin McGrath (independent scholar), “‘The Eye Is a Great Educator’: J. K. Dixon at Kodak”
Peter Walsh (University of Sheffield), “Standards of Practice in Transition: The Showmanship of Jasper
Redfern as It Emerged”
Maria A. Velez-Serna (University of Glasgow), “Mapping Showmanship Skills and Practices in Scotland”
Artemis Willis (University of Chicago), “‘Marvelous and Fascinating’: L. Frank Baum’s Fairylogue and Radio
Plays”
Panel 27: Room G4
Stage and Screen
Panel Chair: Gwendolyn Waltz (independent scholar)
Ivo Blom (VU University of Amsterdam), “The Cross-Medial Case of Lyda Borelli”
Nic Leonhardt (LMU Munich), “Pictorial Dramaturgy in Theatre and New Media, 1890-1915”
Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar), “The Lady of Ostend (1897): The First Stage Play about
Cinema”
2:20 Break
2:40 Special Session: Sallis Benney Theatre
Closing Roundtable: The Future of Early Cinema Studies
Panelists: Frank Gray (University of Brighton) and Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)
3:40 End of conference
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