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Martin Loiperdinger is Professor of Media Studies at Trier University and has published articles, books, television shows, exhibitions, and DVDs on the topic of early cinema.

Marco Pellitteri is a cultural sociologist and specialist in mass media and author of five books on comics, animation, mass media, and youth issues. He is the scientific director of the annual International Cartoonists Exhibition and was recipient of the 2009 John A. Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies.

Marta Braun is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University in Toronto.Charles Keil is Director of the Cinema Studies Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto.Rob King is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History, University of Toronto.Paul Moore is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Ryerson Univ...

Gerald Hamonic is a noted film and animation scholar whose interests span the golden age of American animation (1930-1955), the accurate use of science within apocalyptic cinema and representations of supernatural forces in horror films.Jerry Beck is author or editor of several books on classic animation including 50 Greatest Cartoons (1994) and The Animated Movie Guide (2005). Beck is an animation producer and a professor of animation history...

Philip Hayward is editor of the Island Studies journal Shima and holds adjunct professor positions at the University of Technology Sydney and at Southern Cross University (Australia). He has previously published books on topics such as horror cinema and cultural heritage in the Pacific. He is also a member of audio-visual ensemble The Moviolas and was co-curator of an exhibition entitled Making a Splash: Mermaids and Modernity being held at Sy...

Terry Borton holds a doctorate in education from Harvard and is Director of the American Magic Lantern Theater.Deborah Borton holds a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania and is President of the Magic Lantern Society of the United States and Canada.

Isak Thorsen is Research Assistant in the Section of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in Film Studies. He contributed to the anthology "100 Years of Nordisk Film" (DFI 2006) and has written for the journals Film History, Kosmorama, 16:9, Mifune and Sentura. He is editor and author of the Danish entries in the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema (Scarecrow 2012).

The 100th anniversary of cinema was marked throughout the world in 1995/6. Amongst the widespread celebrations it was largely overlooked that genuine motion pictures had been commercially shown 101 years earlier, and that the origins of the film industry lay in a peepshow device rather than the more familiar movie projector. Introduced in New York in April 1894 and in Paris and London later in the same year, Thomas Edison's electrically-driven...

Dori Koehler, PhD holds degrees in Mythological Studies with emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her main area of research is American popular culture, particularly Disney studies. She presents periodically at the Popular Culture Association¿s National Conference and the Film and History conference through the University of Wisconsin at Osh Kosh. She also presented at the first Discussing Disney conference held in 20...

Steve Neale is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Exeter. He is author of Genre and Hollywood, author (with Sheldon Hall) of Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History, editor of The Classical Hollywood Reader, editor (with Frank Krutnik, Brian Neve and Peter Stanfield) of ¿Un-American¿ Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist, and editor (with John Belton and Sheldon Hall) of Widescreen Worldwide.

Traces the rise and fall of Fort Lee, New Jersey, one of the first film towns in the U.S.

John Whitney was Director General of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1982 to 1989. He then held numerous posts within broadcasting and was Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

James W. Castellan is an independent scholar who has done extensive research on cinematographer Wilbur H. Durborough and journalist Oswald Schuette.Ron van Dopperen studied history at the University of Utrecht, Holland, where he wrote his academic thesis on American World War I documentary films.Cooper C. Graham is a retired film curator for the Library of Congress and author of Leni Riefenstahl and "Olympia.

Se¿J. Harrington is a writer and academic based in London. He is a lecturer in screen media at Brunel University and is currently involved in interdisciplinary research in the areas of animation and digital game design.

Peter Wyeth is a filmmaker with over 40 years of experience and is recognized internationally for his documentaries.

Dafna Ruppin holds a PhD in Media and Performance Studies from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research on the exhibition, consumption and production of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies forms part of the research project "The Nation and Its Other" funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Rudolf Kurtz (1884¿1960) was a leading participant in the German Expressionist movement, contributing a multitude of essays, lampoons, reviews, and commentaries. From 1914 until his death he worked in the film industry, writing scripts and directing his own movies.Christian Kiening is Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Zurich, Director of the National Competence Centre for Research Mediality, and co-editor of Deutsche Viertelja...

David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.Adam Hyman has been Executive Director and Programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum since 2003. A documentary filmmaker, he has produced and/or written a variety of historical and archeological films that have aired on PBS, the History Channe...

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor in the English Department at Western Washington University. Scott Curtis Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He is currently President of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema.Frank Gray is Director of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton.Louis Pelletier is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Universit¿e Montr¿ an...

Robi Engler is a graduate of animated film making at the Ecole National Sup¿eur des Arts D¿ratifs in Paris and indpendent animation filmmaker in Lausanne, Switzerland.