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Silent Film Era

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Women Filmmakers in Silent Cinema: Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, and Contemporaries (1900-1929)

1896 - 1929

Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope and Early American Nickelodeons (1894-1912)

1891 - 1908

Swedish Golden Age: Sjöström, Stiller, and Svenska Biografteatern (1917-1924)

1913 - 1924

Soviet Montage Movement: Kuleshov, Eisenstein, and Vertov (1924-1929)

1924 - 1929

Silent Film Sound Experiments and Early Synchronization Systems (1900-1927)

1902 - 1927

Japanese Silent Cinema and the Benshi Tradition (1910-1930)

1897 - 1932

Harold Lloyd's 'Glasses' Character and Feature Comedies (1919-1928)

1917 - 1928

German Expressionist Cinema (1919-1926)

1917 - 1926

Georges Méliès at Star Film Company (1896-1913)

1896 - 1913

French Impressionist Cinema and Abel Gance (1918-1929)

1918 - 1929

Early Animation in the Silent Era: Winsor McCay, Bray Studios, and Out of the Inkwell (1911-1928)

1911 - 1928

D.W. Griffith at Biograph and Feature Breakthroughs (1908-1919)

1908 - 1919

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