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A Trip to the Moon
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the film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release and is the best-kn…
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Oscar Micheaux
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was an American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films
Did not distributed his films: sending h…
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François Truffaut
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was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films.
The person responsible for…
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Lincoln, Reol, and Arista
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made African-American films for African-American audiences
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auteur criticism
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In film criticism, the 1950s-era holds that a director's films reflect that director's personal creative vision. In spite of - and sometimes even because of - the films in question being made as part of an industrial process, the author's creative voice is distinctive enough to shine thro…
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The Awful Truth
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is a screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.
coo coo clock
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Citizen Kane
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is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles.
No Trespassing Xanadu Rosebud introduced the principle actors at the end of the movie
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It Happened One Night
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is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
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William Foster
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The first black film company was formed by
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screwball comedy
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is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. Includes stories about the rich, dialogue is more important than physical humor, men are less competent than women
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The Homesteader
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is a 1919 black and white silent film by African American author and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, also directed The Exile
The film was produced, co-directed and written for the screen by Micheaux, based on his book of the same name. It is believed to be the first feature-length film made wi…
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Birth of a Race
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(1918) was a silent film directed by John W. Noble
Emmett J. Scott created a film that was hoped to counter the racist Birth of a Nation. The final title for his production was The Birth of a Race was released following the end of World War I.
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Astor Pictures, Harold Pictures and Million Dollar pictures
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known for creating films for black audiences
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Band of Outsiders
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is a 1964 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Movie about heist. Odile and Franz decide to leave France at the end of the movie and go to Brazil seeing the Louvre in less than 10 minutes
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Singinâ in the Rain
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is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography.
For The Dancing Cavalier movie in Singinâ in the Rain, Lina Lamontâs speaking and singing is actually rec…
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Italian Neorealism
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is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.
a pronounced social consciousness on the part of their makers, a concern for the lower classes and their despair and squalor, and a stark real…
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Victorio De Sica
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The director who is considered to have solidified the Neorealistic style is
was a Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
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Open City
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a 1945 Italian war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. The film won several awards at various film festivals and was also nominated for an Academy Award.
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The Broadway Melody
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is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930. Today the Technicolor seq…
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MGM
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is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs.
The Freed Unit was responsible for making musicals at The film studio that dominated musicals in the 1950s was
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Paramount
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Continental Musicals were most often made at
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RKO
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is an American film production and distribution company.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers began their film dancing careers at
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Warner Brothers
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The great choreographer Busby Berkeley made his reputation at
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Busby Berkeley
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born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer.
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Mario Camerini
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was an Italian film director.
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Jazz Singeer
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a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie s…
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The Benny Goodman Story
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is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal Studios in 1956. The film is based on the life of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman.
an example of a realistic musical.
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French New Wave
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was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema.
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
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inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison
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Grand Café
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the Lumière brothers first exhibition there is considered the beginning of commercial cinema
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Eadward Muybridge
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Horse bet that created motion picture
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Mack Sennett
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was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film.
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Thomas Edison
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an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
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Persistence of vision
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is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.
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Stagecoach film
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is a 1939 western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role.
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Mise-en-scene
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is an expression used in theatre and film to describe the design aspects of a production.
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Battleship Potemkin
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sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films.
The deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare are connected to a series of murders in a German mountain village…
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Ernst Lubitsch
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The first successful German director and the first to leave for the US.
The first German filmmaker who became prominent in the US with Madam Dubarry, or Passion as it was known in the US.
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G. W. Pabst
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The book describes this director as a âpsychological realistâ whose important works include. The Joyless Stree famous films concern the plight of women in German society, including The Joyless Street (1925) with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) with Lili Da…
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Nosferatu
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Alexander Dovzhenko
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was a Ukrainian screenwriter, producer and director of films, and is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, whose films often celebrated the lives and work of his fellow Ukrainians.
His films are âsaturated .…
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Sergei Eisenstein
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was a revolutionary Soviet Russian film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkin and October, as well as historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible.
The book calls him âThe greatest master of montage.â His works inc…
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Lev Kuleshov
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was a Soviet filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school (the Moscow Film School). a Soviet filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school. may well be the very first film theorist as he was a l…
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Vsevolod I. Pudovkin
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The book says he âsometimes considered film viewers to be a bit like the dogs in the experiments of . . . Pavolv.â His films include Mother and The End of St. Peteresburg. A student of engineering at Moscow University, Pudovkin saw active duty during World War I, being captured by the…
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Dziga Vertov
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was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories paved the way to Cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking.
His name translates roughly as âspinning top.â His films include the documentary series Kino Pravda and…
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Fritz Lang
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was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.[1] His most famous films are the groundbreaking Me…
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F. W. Murnau
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was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era.
Directed what the book describes as the âmost influential of the films that concentrated on psychology and realism. The film is The Last Laugh. A figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1…
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G. W. Pabst
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This Austrian born German director created the âmost interesting of the Street films,â The Joyless Street, and the book says that he âperfected classical film continuityâ editing.
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Leni Riefenstahl
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The primary documentary filmmaker for the Nazi party. The only director on the list that stayed in Germany through World War II. Prewar films include Triumph of the Will and Olympia which ranks the director âamong the very greatest of all filmmakers.â A German film director, actress a…
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Frank Capra
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was an Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934)
This director focused on âthe ingenious, homespun manners of the most American America.â His films include It Happened One Night, M…
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George Cukor
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was an American film director who mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations.
A Broadway director who would direct âcomedies of social mannersâ and be best known as a âwomanâs director.â His films include Little Women, The Philadelphia Story, and My Fair Lady.
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Preston Sturges
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was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois.
A writer and director of âwitty moral comedies on American subjectsâ. His films include Sullivanâs Travels, and The Lady Eve.
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Josef von Sternberg
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His films were âgleaming gems, rich in atmospheric detail, shimmering pools of light and contrasting shadow, the excitement of a perpetually moving, prowling camera.â His films included The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus and The Scarlet Empress.
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Walt Disney
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The book describes his post 1940s films as âtoo controlled and perfect.â His films include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbi, and The Three Little Pigs.
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John Ford
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was an American film director of Irish heritage famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath.
The book call him the spiritual descendant of D. W. Griffith. His films include The Info…
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Howard Hawks
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was an influential American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.
The book asserts that this director âcreated at least one film that might serve as the very best representative example of almost every genreâ. His films include Twentieth Century, Bri…
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Alfred Hitchcock
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was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.
The book describes his post 1940s films as âtoo controlled and perfect.â His films include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbi, and The Three Little Pigs.
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Orson Welles
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was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio.
Citizen Kane
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Charlie Chaplin
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was an English comedian actor and film director.
The little Tramp Gold Rush City Lights
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Buster Keaton
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was an American comic actor and filmmaker. God Father Harry Hudinni. Silent films, physical comedy, Vaudivile actor, MGM, Steamboat Bill Jr.
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Laurel and Hardy
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a popular comedy team composed of thin, English-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957). First worked together in the Lucky Dog. Sons of the Desert, Way out West, Big Bussiness
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Harold Lloyd
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an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.Silent and talking films. Best known for glasses character. Did stunts injured in 1919. Movies Safty Last, haunted spooks, tramp tramp tramp, long pants
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Douglas Fairbanks
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was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro.
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Cecil B. DeMille
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was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.
The Cheet Authors say no taste or intelligence
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Erik von Stroheim
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This director was âa ruthless realist committed to his art." His films include Greed and Foolish Wives.
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King Vidor
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was an acclaimed American film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.
Directed pictures such as The Big Parade, The Crowd, and Show People.
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D. W. Griffith
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was a premier pioneering American film director.
Founder of classic Hollywood Cinema Director of Intolerance and Birth of a Nation Five people attended his funeral.
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Louie Lumier
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He and his brother are credited with creating commercial cinema
Inventor of the Cinematographe--a camera, projector, developer.
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Georges Méliès
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Built the first movie studio in Europe
Creator of Star Films and director of A Trip to the Moon
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Edwin S. Porter
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was an early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company.
Father of the story film America's first major filmmaker Director of Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery
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