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From today's perspective of Hollywood's hegemony in the field of movie business, it may seem surprising that in the years before the First World War Europe, especially the French film industry, played a major role on the US market. European immigrants in general helped to shape cinema in the US, as producers, directors, actors, writers - but also as spectators. This new issue of KINtop will explore different facets of this complex and stimulating topic. KINtop 10 - Europäer in den USA presents the following essays: The issue opens with a German translation of Richard Abel's seminal study on Pathé's role in the creation of a market for the movies in the US, 1903-06. Judith Thissen describes the movie-going experience of Jewish East-European immigrants on New York's Lower East Side. Nanna Verhoeff analyses the complicated nationality of Pathé Westerns produced on the American East Coast. Michael Wedel presents transatlantic conflicts in the career of Mime Misu, maker of the first "Titanic" film.  Rainer Rother discovered a most interesting document: A 1917 article by German diplomat Carl Ludwig Duisberg on D. W. Griffith's editing techniques and their impact on audiences. Hanns-Georg Rodek has compiled a list of about 400 names of Europeans having worked in the US film industry before 1920. Outside the main section Roland Cosandey presents a series of ten articles by Swiss hunter and explorer Adam David on an expedition in Africa where Alfred Machin participated as a cameraman for Pathé.                                        Stroemfeld Verlag: Basel, Frankfurt am Main 1992 ISBN 3-87877-781-7

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