An expansive, multicultural look at the history of film, with illustrations.

Developments prior to 1895 that led to the motion picture --
International childhood of a new medium and art, 1895-1914 --
Rise of the American film, 1914-1919 --
Scandinavian film, 1917-1924 --
Great German silents, 1919-1925 --
Art and dialectic in the Soviet film, 1925-1929 --
French impressionists and the avant-garde, 1919-1929 --
Hollywood in the twenties, 1919-1929 --
Sound comes to America, 1927-1935 --
Golden age of Frenc