Dan Erdman is an A/V archivist and video preservationist at Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA, where he is responsible for a variety of media materials as they are reformatted, cataloged and ingested into the digital repository. He has published film reviews in Senses of Cinema, The Moving Image, Public Books and Democratiya, and co-wrote a chapter for Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader (2016).

• Introduction1. The Earliest Stag Films: to 1923.2. The Stag Scene and the Debut of 16mm Film: 1923 to World War II3. Stag Films During the War Years: 1941 to 19454. Post-war: 1945 to 1970Conclusions and Directions for Further ResearchIndex

I am fully convinced that this book is as much as we can currently know about the world of stag films … it is, without question, the new bedrock for future historical work.

Dan Erdman is an A/V archivist and video preservationist at Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA, where he is responsible for a variety of media materials as they are reformatted, cataloged and ingested into the digital repository. He has published film reviews in Senses of Cinema, The Moving Image, Public Books and Democratiya, and co-wrote a chapter for Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader (2016).

• Introduction1. The Earliest Stag Films: to 1923.2. The Stag Scene and the Debut of 16mm Film: 1923 to World War II3. Stag Films During the War Years: 1941 to 19454. Post-war: 1945 to 1970Conclusions and Directions for Further ResearchIndex

I am fully convinced that this book is as much as we can currently know about the world of stag films … it is, without question, the new bedrock for future historical work.

Dan Erdman is an A/V archivist and video preservationist at Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA, where he is responsible for a variety of media materials as they are reformatted, cataloged and ingested into the digital repository. He has published film reviews in Senses of Cinema, The Moving Image, Public Books and Democratiya, and co-wrote a chapter for Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader (2016).

• Introduction1. The Earliest Stag Films: to 1923.2. The Stag Scene and the Debut of 16mm Film: 1923 to World War II3. Stag Films During the War Years: 1941 to 19454. Post-war: 1945 to 1970Conclusions and Directions for Further ResearchIndex

I am fully convinced that this book is as much as we can currently know about the world of stag films … it is, without question, the new bedrock for future historical work.