A GLOBAL HISTORY OF FILM: ERAS, SCHOOLS, MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVES

I. Silent Period (1895–1929)

1. 1895-1908 – French/British/American Primitive Cinema (also referred to as The “Cinema of Attractions”, a.k.a. Pre-Classical Cinema)
2. 1898-1904 – British Brighton Film School
3. 1898-1928 – Japanese Silent Cinema
4. 1900-1945 – Japanese Colonial Cinema
5. 1905-1945 – German Colonial Cinema (German: Deutsche Kolonial-Film)
6. 1905-2010 – Italian Experimental Cinema
7. 1907-1930 – American Working-Class Film Movement (also referred to as The Working-Class Hollywood Cinema)
8. 1910-1927 – The “Golden Age” of Danish Silent Cinema