first film by Lumiere bros- workers coming out of Lumiere factory

phantom ride-tracking shots filmed from front of train

sick kitten-first close up shot

life of an american fireman- cross cutting between different locations

first film star-Florence Laurence

film production moved from east coast to Hollywood so that they were able to use a technique that stopped the film working without paying patents to Thomas Edison

Scandinavia is described by cousins as being the best in the world for film making in the 1910s because they were innovating effects and utilising light

benjamin christensen-the mysterious x

victor sjosttrom-the phantom carriage