Encyclopedia of Early Cinema - Paperbackby Richard Abel (Editor) The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the mid 1910s. These early years of the history of cinema have lately been the subject of resurgent interest and a growing body of scholarship, and have come to be recognized as an extraordinarily diverse period, when moving pictures were