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Overture / Julie Brown, Annette Davison -- Professional lecturing in Early British Film shows / Joe Kember -- "Now, where were we?" Ideal and actual early cinema lecturing practices in Britain, Germany and the United States / Judith Buchanan -- Eric Williams: speaking to pictures / Stephen Bottomore -- Sounding Scottish: sound practices and silent cinema in Scotland / Trevor Griffiths -- "Suitable music": accompaniment practice in early London screen exhibition from R.W. Paul to the Picture Palaces / Ian Christie -- The art of not "playing to pictures" in British cinemas, 1906-1914 / Jon Burrows -- "The efforts of the wretched pianist": learning to play to the pictures in Britain, 1911-1913 / Andrew Higson -- The reception of British exhibition practices in moving picture world, 1907-1914 / James Buhler -- Selsior dancing films, 1912-1917 / Stephen Bottomore -- Song of performance in the early sound shorts British pathé / Derek B. Scott -- Framing the atmospheric film prologue in Britain, 1919-1926 / Julie Brown -- Animating the audience: singalong films in Britain in the 1920s / Malcolm Cook -- Workers' rights and performing rights: cinema music and musicians prior to synchronized sound / Annette Davison -- Sound at the film society / John Riley -- Edmund Meisel's "visual sound" in The crimson circle (1929): the case of the vanishing part-talkie / Fiona Ford