The Rocket to the Moon

Novel

Thea Von Harbou

Die Frau Im Mond aka
Woman in the Moon aka
By Rocket to the Moon(1929)


High Treason

Play

Pemberton Billing

High Treason (silent 1929)

(transcript of sound
film dialogue

(L'Estrange Fawcett)

High Treason (sound 1929)


Lola

Photoplay novel

Owen Davis

Lola aka Without a Soul (1916)


Octave of Claudius

A Blind Bargain

Novel

book about the film

Barry Pain

Philip J. Riley

A Blind Bargain (1922)


The Star Rover

Novel

Jack London

The Star Rover (1920)


Voyage a travers
l'impossible

Whirling the Worlds

Play


Film Catalog Synopsis

Jules Verne & Adolph
d'Ennery

George Melies -
Williamson's Films catalog

Voyage a Travers l'Impossible aka
Whirling the Worlds aka
An Impossible Voyage (1904)


Black Oxen

Photoplay novel

Gertrude Atherton

Black Oxen (1924)


Atlantida

Novel

Pierre Benoit

L'Atlantide aka Atlantis aka
Missing Husbands (1920)


A Message from Mars

Play

Novel

Richard Ganthony

Lester Lurgan a.k.a.
Mabel Winifred Knowle

A Message from Mars (pre 1910)
A Message from Mars (1913)
A Message from Mars (1921)

 


The Golem

"Script"

Henrik Galeen

The Golem: How He Came Into the World aka
Der Golem Wei Er in die Welt Kam (1920)


The Young Diana

Novel

Marie Corelli

The Young Diana (1922)


The Battle Cry of
Peace


(Defenseless America)

Film tie-in story in pamphlet form with scenes from movie

(non-fiction)

J. Stuart Blacktonn



(Hudson Maxim)

The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)


Exploits of Elaine & Romance of Elaine

Photoplay novels of film serials

Arthur B. Reeve

Exploits of Elaine (1914)
New Exploits of Elaine (1915)
Romance of Elaine (1915)


Alraune

Novel

Hanns Heinz Ewers

Alraune (1928)

Intertitles

Henrik Galeen

(transcript of sound film dialogue)

(Charlie Roellinghoff,
Richard Weisbach)


Metropolis

Screenplay reproduction

Paul M. Jensen
(Screenplay originally by Thea Von Harbou)

Metropolis (1926)

Novel

Thea Von Harbou

Magazine
serialization

Unknown author from
"The Picture Goer"
October 1,8,15 of 1927


Omega - The Last Days of the World

Novel

Camille Flammarion

La Fin du Monde (1930)


Blow Your Own Horn

Play

Owen Davis

Blow Your Own Horn (1924)


The Black Box

Photoplay novel of film serial

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Black Box (1915)


"The Lost World"
of Willis O'Brien

The Lost World

Script


Photoplay novel

Marion Fairfax
(edited by Roy Kinnard)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World (1925)


The Spy

Photoplay novel

Thea Von Harbou

Spies aka Spione (1928)

Intertitles

Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou


20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea

Photoplay novel

Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)


She- A History of Adventure

She

Photoplay novel

Synopsis

H. Rider Haggard

"Thanhouser / The Moving Picture World,
Dec 23, 1911"

She (1925)

She (1911)


The Diamond From the Sky

Photoplay novel
of film serial

Roy L. McCardell

The Diamond From the Sky (1915)


The Mystery Mind

Photoplay novel of film serial

Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey (novelization by Marc Edmund Jones)

The Mystery Mind (1920)


The Very Extraordinary Voyages of Saturnin Farandoul in the 5 or 6 Continents of the World and in All the Lands Known or Even Unknown to Mr. Jules Verne

Introductory illustrations to chapters

Albert Robida

Saturnino Farandola (1915)


The Isle of Dead Ships - A Tale of the Sargasso Sea

Novel

Crittenden Marriott

The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
The Isle of Lost Ships (1929)


"The Story Without a Name" now named Without Warning

Photoplay novel

Arthur Stringer and Russell Holman

The Story Without a Name aka Without Warning (1924)


The Diamond Master

Novel

Jacques Futrelle

The Diamond Queen (1921)
The Diamond Master (1929)


One Way Street

Novel

Bealle Davis

One Way Street (1925)


The Fall of a Nation

Novel

Thomas Dixon

The Fall of a Nation (1916)


The Hand of Peril

Novel

Arthur Stringer

The Hand of Peril (1916)


The Hands of Orlac

Novel

Maurice Renard

Hands of Orlac aka Orlacs Haende (1925)

Translated transcript of film dialogue

Louis Nerz


Dr. Mabuse

Novels

Norbert Jacques

Dr. Mabuse (Part I The Gambler, Part II Inferno) (1922)

Intertitles

Thea von Harbou


Edison's Frankenstein (Review of an Unseen Classic)

Presumption; or,
The Fate of Frankenstein

Frankenstein, or
The Modern Prometheus

Book about the film



Play


Novel

Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr.



Richard Brinsley Peake


Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (1910)


The Sandman

Short Story





translated intertitles to Die Puppe 1919

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Gugusse eut l'Automate (1897)
Coppelia ou la Poupee Animee (1900)
The Doll Maker's Daughter (1906)
An Animated Doll (1907)
Tales of Hoffmann (1911)
Tales of Hoffmann (1915)
Die Puppe (1919)


The Voice on the Wire

Novel

Eustace Hale Ball

The Voice on the Wire (1917)


Aelita

Novel

Alexei Tolstoi

Aelita (1924)

Intertitles

Fedor Ozep, Aleksey Fajko


The Mysterious Island

Photoplay Novel

Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island (1929)

Intertitles

Lucien Hubbard


The Radio Detective

Photoplay Novel of film serial

Arthur B. Reeve

The Radio Detective (1926)


Invasion of 1910

Novel

William LeQueux

If England Were Invaded aka The Raid of 1915 (1915)


Isabella of Egypt

Novella

Ludwig Achim von Arnim(translated by Bruce Duncan)

Alraune und der Golem (1919)


The Adventurous Voyage of the "Arctic" - How Captain Kettle discovered the North Pole

The Adventures of Captain Kettle

Master of Fortune, Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle

Film Catalog Synopsis




(Captain Kettle stories)

from Robert Paul's Christmas Supplement catalog of 1903



(C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne)

Voyage of the Arctic (1903)


The Road to Yesterday

Play

Beulah Marie Dix & Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland ("rewritten and revised by Beulah Marie Dix Flebbe")

The Road to Yesterday (1925)


The Astronomer's Dream

Film Catalog synopsis

George Melies (Lubin catalog)

The Astronomers Dream aka La Lune a un Metre aka The Man in the Moon(1898)


200,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Film Catalog synopsis

George Melies (translated
by Gerry Carpenter)

Under the Seas aka Deux Cent Milles sous les Mers ou le Cauchemar d'un Pecheur aka 200,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907)


The Rear Car

Play

Edward E. Rose

Red Lights (1923)


Voyage Round a Star

Film Catalog synopsis

"Royal Bioscope
Animated Photographs"

Voyage Round a Star aka Voyage aurour d'une etoile (1906)


"Early British Trick Films"

The Elixir of Life

The Marvelous Hair Restorer

An Over-Incubated Baby


The Freezing Mixture


The Electric Vitalizer



Film Catalog synopsis

Film Catalog synopsis

Film Catalog synopsis


Film Catalog synopsis


Film Catalog synopsis



"Williamson's Films"

"Williamson's Films"

"Paul's Animatograph's & Films

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"



The Elixir of Life (1901)

The Marvelous Hair Restorer (1901)

An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)


The Freezing Mixture (1910)


The Electric Vitalizer (1910)


The Comet

Film Catalog synopsis

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"

The Comet (1910)


The Tunnel

Novel

Bernhard Kellermann

The Tunnel (1915)


New York to Paris by Automobile

Film Catalog synopsis

George Melies (translated by Gerry Carpenter)

New York to Paris by Auto aka Raid New York-Paris en Automobile (1908)


The Aerial Submarine

Film Catalog synopsis

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"

The Aerial Submarine (1910)


The Aerial Anarchists


Hartmann the Anarchist

Film Catalog synopsis


Novel

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"

E. Douglas Fawcett

The Aerial Anarchists (1911)


Liquid Electricity

Film Catalog synopsis

"Royal Bioscope Animated Photographs"

Liquid Electricity aka The Inventor's Galvanic Fluid (1907)


Elusive Isabel

Novel

Jacques Futrelle

Elusive Isabel (1916)


The ? Motorist

Film Catalog synopsis

"Paul's Animatograph's & Films"

The ? Motorist aka
The ? Motorist to Saturn (1906)


The Automatic Motorist

Film Catalog synopsis

"Catalogue of Kineto Film Subjects"

The Automatic Motorist (1911)


The Inspirations of
Harry Larrabee

magazine story

Howard Fielding

The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee (1917)


Yellow Typhoon

Novel

Harold MacGrath

Yellow Typhoon (1920)


Green Rust

Novel

Edgar Wallace

The Green Terror (1919)


The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or a Mis-Spent Life. A Drama in Four Acts



Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Novel


Play


Synopsis


Intertitles from 1920 -Barrymore film

Robert Louis Stevenson


Luella Forepaugh and
George F. Fish

"Thanhouser / Moving Picture News, Jan 6 1912"

Clara S. Beranger




Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908)
The Duality of Man (1909)
Den Skaefuesv Angre Opfindelse (c 1910)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1911)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
Der Januskopf (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Barrymore)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Lewis)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Mann)


The Death Ray aka Luch Smerti

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

Translated Intertitles


Novel

scenario by Lev Kuleshov (from Pacific Film Archives)

Alexei Tolstoi

The Death Ray aka Luch Smerti (1925)


She

Magazine short story

James Black

She (1916 UK)


Before Adam

Novel

Jack London

Man's genesis (1912)


Professor Wiese's Brain Serum Injector

Film Catalog synopsis

"Lubin Catalog"

Professor Wiese's Brain Serum
Injector (1909)


Inventions of an idiot

Film Catalog synopsis

"Lubin Catalog"

Inventions of an idiot (1909)


Measure for Measure

Film Catalog synopsis

"Lubin Catalog"

Measure for Measure (1909)


The Water Devil

Her Father's Gold

Short Novella

Synopsis

Frank R. Stockton

"Thanhouser / Reel Life,
Apr 29, 1916"

Her Father's Gold (1916)


The Master Mystery

Photoplay novel

Arthur B. Reeve

The Master Mystery (1918)


Terror Island

Magazine short story

Arthur B. Reeve and John Gray

Terror Island (1920)


The Man From Beyond

Intertitles

Coolidge Streeter

The Man From Beyond (1922)


Naidra, The Dream Woman

Synopsis

"Thanhouser / Reel Life, Nov 28, 1914"

Naidra, The Dream Woman (1914)


Looking Forward

synopsis

"Thanhouser / The Moving Picture World, Dec 24, 1910"

Looking Forward (1910)


The Magician

Novel

W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician (1926)


Atlantis

Novel

Gerhart Hauptmann

Atlantis (1913)


The Radio King

Magazine story from film serial

George Bronson Howard

The Radio King (1922)


Mess-Mend: Yankees
in Petrograd

Novel

Marietta Shaginian
(aka "Jim Dollar")

Miss Mend aka Adventures of Three Reporters (1926)


The Iron Claw

Newspaper serialization

Arthur Stringer

The Iron Claw (1916)

" Herald" for chapter 19

(author unknown)


The Mysterious Contragrav

Synopsis

Moving Picture World

The Mysterious Contragrav (1915)


By Radium Rays

Synopsis

Moving Picture World

By Radium Rays (1914)


Balaoo - The Demon Baboon

Balaloo

Synopsis

Story

Moving Picture World

Gaston Leroux

Balaoo - The Demon Baboon (1913)


Battle in the Clouds

Synopsis

Moving Picture World

Battle in the Clouds aka Aerial Torpedo aka The Airship Destroyer (1909)


The Flying Torpedo

Synopsis

Moving Picture World

The Flying Torpedo (1916))


The Invisible Fluid

Synopsis

Moving Picture World

The Invisible Fluid


The Sky Ranger

Synopsis

Library of Congress
copyright record

The Sky Ranger

Chapter Installments (12-14)

Herbert Crooker -
Photo Drama Magazine


The Miser's Reversion

Synopsis

Reel Life, March 21, 1914

The Miser's Reversion

Story

Peter Wade - Motion Picture Magazine, May 1914


The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

Synopsis

"H. M. Dawley" - Library of Congress copyright record

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain


The Unknown Purple

Synopsis

Library of Congress copyright record

The Unknown Purple


Algol

translated intertitles

scenario by Hans Brenert
& Friedel Koehne

Algol (1920)


Crimson Stain Mystery

Trade Journal Chapter summaries

The Moving Picture World
(Sept 2 to Dec 16, 1916)

The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916)


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