The Movies Begin Comedy Spectacle and New Horizons 18941913 (2002)

This edition explores the establishment of cinematic genres in the first years of the 20th Century offering rare glimpses of the innovative visual comedy of Max Linder the pioneering Italian epic NERO or THE BURNING OF ROME the phenomenal animation of Windsor McCoy the social realism of Alice Guy Blachas MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN D W Griffiths early melodrama A GIRL AND HER TRUST and more