Introduction
Part I: The Kinora in Context
1. The Kinora and its Technological and Industrial Dynamics
2. Domesticating Moving Images: Discursively Framing the Kinora
PART II: Using the Kinora
3. Uncovering the Kinora's Use: The Smedley Collection
4. The Kinora in Everyday Life: Choice, Technology and Seriality
5. Performing for the Kinora: The Mundane as Spectacle
Conclusion
Appendix: The Smedley Collection

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. She closely analyses 84 previously unexamined Kinora reels, filmed between 1908-1913 and held by the Smedley Collection. These include 23 reels that were produced for public consumption and others that were meant solely for private viewing by the family. She goes on to consider the reels as material objects, examining not only the content that was created, but also how the collection was preserved and catalogued by members of the Smedley family"--