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Contents Part One The Birth of the Film 1895-1908 THE FIRST STEPS AN EARLY MASTER MAKING A FILM IN IpOO MUSEE GREVIN ART FILMS COMEDIES AND ANIMATED CARTOONS FAIRY TALES AND TRANS FORMATIONS A BUSINESS ANECDOTE OF 1898 NARRA TIVE FILMS TALKING FILMS AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION THE AMERICAN FILM A GLANCE BACKWARDS Part Two The Prewar Film 1908-1914 37 TRADITIONS ESTABLISHED THE FILM D ART THE ITALIAN FILM DRAMAS THE RUSSIAN FILM THE DANISH AND GERMAN FILM THE SWEDISH FILM THE AMERICAN FILM SERIALS REALISM FRENCH COMEDIES MAX LINDER AMERICAN COMEDIES THE COMING OF CHAP LIN THE THIRD INDUSTRY OF THE WORLD Part Three The Cinema During the World War 1914-1918 9 1 NEWSREELS I. The Italian Film 95 II. The American Film 98 THE INDUSTRY TRIANGLE CORPORATION THE ROMAN TIC LIFE OF MRS. PICKFORD ZUKOR AND HIS VORRIES D. W. GRIFFITH CECIL B. DEMILLE THOMAS INCE THE FRENCH IN AMERICA SERIALS TOM MIX AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS THE COMEDIANS CHARLIE CHAP LIN V Contents ml II. The German Film 251 THE END OF CALIGARISM G. W. PABST THE NEW REAL ISM E. A. DUPONT DIFFICULTIES FRITZ LANG CZECH FILMS III. The Scandinavian Film 263 THE FILM IN SWEDEN NORWEGIAN FILMS THE DAN ISH FILM IV. The Russian Film 266 THE SOVIET FILM THE IDEAS OF VERTOV THE MARTIAL REVOLUTION THE REVOLUTION ROMANTICIZED PUDOV KIN THE PACIFIC REVOLUTION V. The American Film 283 ART AND COMMERCE FOREIGNERS ATTEMPTS TOWARD ARTISTRY COMEDIANS CHAPLIN THE END OF THE SILENT FILM VI. The Death of cm Art 300 Part Six The Talking Films i 29-1 3 33 I. The American Film 305 INVENTIONS NEWSREEL SOUND FILMS KING VIDOR DRAMAS AND STORIES COMEDIES NEW COMEDIANS ANIMATED CARTOONS II. The French Film 325 RENE GLAIR FAILURE AND PROGRESS DISCOVERIES CANNED THEATERIII. The German Film 341 ADVANCES OPERETTAS AND VIENNESE FILMS YOUTH FILMS NAZI FILMS IV. The Russian Film 353 FROM SILENCE TO SOUND EISENSTEIN DRAMAS AND COMEDIES viii Contents V. A World Industry 361 ITALIAN FILMS THE NORDIC COUNTRIES AND ASIA, TOO Part Seven Forty Years of Film 367 THE MUSIC OF IMAGES Editorial Postscript 1935-1938 381 Index of Film Titles 391 General Index 405 ist of Illustrations D. W. Griffith directing The Birth of a Nation Frontispiece Louis Lumieres Pastime in the Family Circle 1896 1 8 The May Irwm-John C. Rice Kiss 1896 1 8 An Impossible Voyage, by Georges Melies 1904 19 Georges Melies studio 1 9 The Great Train Robbery z 903 50 Rescued from an Eagles Nest 7.907 50 Re jane in Madame Sans-Gene 1911 5 1 The Last Days of Pompeii 1913 5 l Shermans march to the sea from The Birth of a Nation 1915 9 8 Pearl White in a characteristic episode 99 William S. Hart and Bessie Love in The Aryan 1926 99 Mary Pick-ford in Polly anna 1920 130 Barney Oldfields Race for a Life 0.1913 130 Douglas Fairbanks in American Aristocracy 1916 131 Gloria Swanson in Male and Female 1919 131 The Covered Wagon 25 178 Severin-Mars in La Roue 1922 1 78 Greta Gar bo in The Story of Gosta Berling 1923-4 179 Edna Purviance and Adolphe Menjou in A Woman of Paris 7 23 210 Zasu Pitts in Greed 1924 2 1 1 Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti in Variety 1925 211 Scene from the U. S. S. R. film, Potemkin 1925 258 Charlie Chaplin in The Circus 1928 259 Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer 1927 290 IX x List of Illustrations Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney in Smart Money W 290 From The Italian Straw Hat 1927 291 Qroucho, Harpo and Chico Marx 338 La Kermesse Heroique 1936 339 Die Dreigroschenoper 1931 339 forewordT JL . e H i IS History of Motion Pictures has the merit of approach ing its subject in a form which hitherto has not been available to the large public interested in the film. It very properly attempts to survey the entire history of film making in Europe and in America and to describe the exchange of influences to which the film as a whole has been subject...

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