American film criticism: from the beginnings to Citizen Kane. Reviews of significant films at the time they first appeared

A collection of American film criticism. Includes Edison's Vitascope, The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter), The Blue and the Grey, The Adventures of Dollie, The Song of the Shirt, Quo Vadis?, The Perils of Pauline, Cabiria, Charlie Chaplin, The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Safety Last, Harold Lloyd, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Cecil B. De Mille, Greed, Erich von Stroheim, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Sergei Eisenstein, Metropolis, Sunrise, The Jazz Singer, Al jolson, talkies, Carl Theodor Dreyer, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lewis Milestone, The Marx Brothers, The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, animation (sfx), Greta Garbo, King Kong, Luis Bunuel, Mae West, james Whale, Alfred Hitchcock, Fantasia, Walt Disney, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection