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By the mid-to-late-1920s, the silent "art film" was on the rise with some of the greatest silent film achievements, such as Josef von Sternberg's Underworld and The Last Command, King Vidor's The Crowd, and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Erich von Stroheim's ultra-realist films such as Greed also had a big influence.
The themes of Expressionism were integrated into later films of the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in an artistic control over the placement of scenery, light, etc., to enhance the mood of a film. This dark, moody school of filmmaking was brought to the United States when the Nazis gained power and many German film makers emigrated to Hollywood ...
The film initiated so many advances in American cinema that it was rendered obsolete within a few years. [10] Though 1913 was a global landmark for filmmaking, 1917 was primarily an American one; the era of "classical Hollywood cinema" is distinguished by a narrative and visual style which began to dominate the film medium in America by 1917. [11]
But in the late 1920s, sound production and distribution were starting to be adopted by the German film industry and by 1932 Germany had 3,800 cinemas equipped to play sound films. The first filmmakers who experimented with the new technology often shot the film in several versions, using several soundtracks in different languages.
Wallenstein (film) The War of the Oxen (1920 film) Watch on the Rhine (1926 film) Waterloo (1929 film) What the Stones Tell; When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922 film) With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail; With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo; With Kit Carson Over the Great Divide; The Women House of Brescia
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
The history of film chronicles ... Circa 80 percent of the films of the 1890s to the 1920s ... Since the late 2000s streaming media platforms like YouTube ...
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