A short history of the movies

A very broad and general chronological history of cinema from its invention (Lumieres, Thomas Edison, Cinematographe, Kinetoscope), technology, technique, narrative, editing, sound, colour, Technicolor, widescreen, Cinerama, CinemaScope, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, V.I. Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Georges Melies, Cecil Hepworth, Marlon Brando, Frank Capra, Studio system, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Italian Neo-Realism, Les enfants du paradis, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carne, avant garde, Michael Snow, Kenneth Anger, Oskar Fischinger, Stan Van der Beek, Soviet Montage, German expressionism, Ufa

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection