Episode Details

1911 really feels like the beginning of the feature film. Oh sure, it didn’t suddenly define the output of the global film industry, but ambitious experiments from Italy, Denmark, Russia, and only very tentatively, America, sat alongside narrative, as well as plenty of non-narrative, successes and intriguing failures in the short form.

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Films mentioned:

• L’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De Liguoro
• L’Odissea (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De Liguoro
• The Black Dream (1911) - Urban Gad
• The Girl Behind the Counter (1911) - August Blom
• Defence of Sevastopol (1911) - Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vasily Goncharov
• Enoch Arden (1911) - D.W. Griffith
• Little Nemo (1911) - Winsor McCay and J. Stuart Blackton
• David Copperfield (1911) - Theodore Marston
• She (1911) - George Nichols
• A Tale of Two Cities (1911) - Charles Kent and William J. Humphrey
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911) - Albert Capellani
• A Heroine of ‘76 (1911) - Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Edwin S. Porter
• Ben Hur (1907) - Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose