The Movies Begin Experimentation and Discovery 18941913 (2002)

Frequently comical often risque and sometimes just plain baffling the twenty films of this anthology challenged the precepts of the visual representation of narrative thereby inventing the photographic and editing techniques that would quickly become accepted as cinematic syntax Includes Peeping Tom 1901 History of a Crime 1901 How It Feels to be Run Over 1900 and The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend 1906