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CINEMA OF THE UNITED STATES

Specialty Definition: Cinema of the United States

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Significant people during the earliest era of film history (1872-1903)

Eadweard Muybridge
Thomas Edison
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
George Eastman
Edwin Porter

Significant people during the beginnings of Hollywood (1912-1925)

Theda Bara
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
Robert J. Flaherty
D. W. Griffith
Thomas Harper Ince
Mary Pickford
Mack Sennett
Gloria Swanson

Classic Hollywood Era (1930-1945)

IMR

Frank Capra
John Ford
John Grierson
Howard Hawks
Preston Sturges
Orson Welles

Bing Crosby
Clark Gable
Cary Grant
Edward G. Robinson
Mickey Rooney

Katherine Hepburn
Carole Lombard
Elizabeth Taylor
Shirley Temple

Others

Walt Disney

See also

MPPC
Independents
Fox Film Corporation
Paramount Pictures
Film history
Cinema in other countries

External links

History of Hollywood's Aerial Cinematography

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