Cinema in the first decade of the 20th century in the USA

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The wheel follows the alphabetical order by default. Each highlighted letter corresponds to a word that contains it or begins with it. Read the descriptions carefully, some include images that you can enlarge if you click on them.

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Cinema in the first decade of the 20th century in the USAOnline version The wheel follows the alphabetical order by default. Each highlighted letter corresponds to a word that contains it or begins with it. Read the descriptions carefully, some include images that you can enlarge if you click on them. by Joanna A B C D E F G H I K N P R S T W Starts with A Nationality of most of the films produced and globally distributed in the first decades of the 20th century, specially when World War I started. Contains B An editing technique mastered by Griffith, it interrupts the forward linear progression of a story to show a past event. Starts with C Seventh modern art Starts with D Known as an actress, singer, producer, screenwriter and editor, Lois Weber was also a fruitful... Starts with E Industrialization and technological breakthroughs during the Progressive Era promoted the massive… Starts with F Cinema became so popular that movie palaces were built. How many thousands of seats had some of them? Starts with G Surname of a motion picture pioneer. He developed new techniques, directed the film "The birth of a Nation". Also, he supported the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan. Starts with H California is the location of this filmmaking empire. The first studio was established there in 1911. Starts with I Adjective to describe the monopoly of the Motion Picture Patents Company that was dissolved by the Sherman Antitrust Act. Starts with K Electric motion picture exhibition device with a scope on top through which one person can watch moving images. Predecessor of the modern film projector. Starts with N Name of the small cinema venues at the beginning of the 20th century in the USA. It is also the name of a current TV channel for children. Starts with P Occupation that the immigrants Samuel Goldwin, William Fox, Louis Mayer, and the brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner had after they stopped exhibiting films. Starts with R In 1903, Edwin Porter directed the short film “The Great Train….” Starts with S Main characteristic of the first motion films. Starts with T His aggressive and controversial measures on the patents of equipment and exhibitions from 1908 forced independent filmmakers to move from New York to the Western coast where they founded their own studios. Starts with W Major genre during the first decade of the 20th century starring outlaws in the frontiers.