From the Book - [Rev. ed.]
1. In the beginning: "A magic lantern run mad."
2. Georges Melies and Edwin S. Porter. -3. "This line is a klondike": the nickelodeon.
4. Griffith at Biograph (I): the miraculous year (1909).
5. Griffith at Biograph (I): more experiments.
6. Thunder on the right (1909-1913): Griffith leaves Biograph.
7. Foreign invasion (I): films from France, Britain, Scandinavia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia.
8. Films fine and foolish (1909-1918).
10. Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin.
11. Outpost of the cinema's advance: The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).
12. A good girl and a bad one: Mary Pickford and Theda Bara.
14. Broken Blossoms, and some Griffith films of the twenties.
15. Chaplin in the Twenties.
16. The American film, 1919-1924.
17. Foreign invasion (II): Ernst Lubitsch.
18. Two rebels: Erich von Stroheim and Robert J. Flaherty.
19. Foreign invasion (III): Films from Germany, France, Scandinavia.
20. The American film, 1925-1929.
21. "Thunder Drum for All Four Horsemen": presentation.
22. The experimental film.
23. Foreign invasion (IV): films from Russia; films of Carl-Th. Dreyer.
