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  4. History of Cinema: Class 3, Early European Film

History of Cinema: Class 3, Early European Film

  • 1 England
    • 1.1 Cecil Hepworth
      • How It Feels to Be Run Over
      • Explosion of a Motor Car
      • The Other Side of the Hedge
      • Rescued by Rover
  • 2 Denmark
    • 2.1 Nordisk
    • 2.2 Asta Nielsen
      • Afgrunden (1910)
    • 2.3 steady decline with World War I
  • 3 France
    • 3.1 Pathé Brothers
      • vertical integration
        • cameras/projectors
        • films
        • theaters
      • Ali Baba et les Quarantes Voleurs
      • Reve et realite
      • La Revolution en Russie
      • Ferdinand Zecca
        • hand coloring
        • Red Spectre (1908)
      • Max Linder
        • comedian
        • middle-class tastes
        • Troubles of a Grasswidower (1908)
      • horizontal integration of studios
        • Italy
        • Russia
        • United States
    • 3.2 Gaumont
      • Alice Guy
        • trained filmmakers
        • longer films
        • left Gaumont in 1908
      • Louis Feuillade
      • Film d’Art
        • founded 1908
        • elite tastes
        • The Assassination of the Duc of Guise (1908)
        • sold in 1911
    • 3.3 George Méliès
      • Excelsior! Prince of the Magicians
      • Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjuror
      • Mermaid
      • The Black Imp
      • Living Playing Cards
      • The Eclipse: The Courtship of the Sun and Moon
      • Hilarious Posters
      • Long Distance Wireless Photography
      • A Trip to the Moon
    • 3.4
  • 4 Italy
    • 4.1 film companies
      • Cines (1905)
      • Ambrosio (1905)
      • Itala (1906)
    • 4.2 art films
      • permanent theaters
      • longer films
        • Nero and the Fall of Rome (1908)
        • Last Day of Pompeii (1908)
      • epics
        • Cabiria (1913)
  • 5 Cinema Europe

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