Film & Moving Image · Film History
A topic within Film History, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.
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Vachel Lindsay
Argues motion pictures deserve to be judged as a genuine new art form alongside architecture, sculpture and painting, and sketches a hierarchy of photoplay types to make the case.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Terry Ramsaye
Traces the birth of American cinema as a story of patents, hustlers and showmen battling for control of the new medium, arguing the industry's founding shape came from business warfare rather than any single inventor's vision.
link checked 17 Sept 2026