1918-1928: The Hollywood Machine

Buster Keaton. Keaton used many editing tricks and was highly inventive. the General is one of his most famous movies, all jokes are repeated throughout the film however amplified in the second half of the movie.

Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s first movie was inspired by his own childhood. City Lights (another one of his films) shows how he came up with his ideas due to the improvisation of the piece of wood in the sewer grate.

Harold Lloyd. Lloyd climbed a building for his movie while having vertigo and also missing two fingers.

Citizen Kane was ground breaking for the lighting technique and went on to inspire David Fincher’s “Mank”

Keaton inspired Ellie Suleman. Chaplin has inspired Nicolas Roeg as well as Billy Wilder. Lloyd inspired people such as Keaton and even Jackie Chan