1908-1918

According to Cousins, why did the hub of film production in the USA move from The East Coast of America to Hollywood? Filmmakers moved to escape the patents of Thomas Edison.

Which nation’s film industry does cousins describe to be “the best in the world” in the 1910’s and why? Denmark

Give an example of two films and two directors from this place and time cited by Cousin’s as remarkable. Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström, 1913)

Who directed Birth of a Nation (1915) and why did the film continue to divide opinions among film critics, practitioners and theorists? D. W. Griffith, Thomas Dixon Jr. Revived the Ku Klux Klan.