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That inexplicable something Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer

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Three Men and a Girl How (and why) United Artists was born

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What exactly is «Taxi Driver»? Filming the Age of Anxiety

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Charlie Chaplin's method Shooting «Modern Times» (and why discarding scenes)

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Writing dialogues for silent films «Watch out! You’re backing up into the goldfish!»

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The «kilometric» film The longer the better?

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But Miss Lasky is a woman, and so I asked, «Why?» One of the most remarkable woman in America

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«Have you ever been in a movie, Buster?» Destiny in a bag of flour

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A studio in Queens When Astoria, Queens, was better than Hollywood

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«Exhibs Lukewarm About Color» Color (in 1930) did not attract more money to the box-office

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«Was Joan of Arc Noah’s wife?» Edward Lambert, the man who answers Hollywood’s strangest questions

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Including yourself.

Romance in a Film Factory Within the white line

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«He did it a thousand times, like a kid» Douglas Fairbanks and the making of «Robin Hood» (1922)

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The genius of Billy Bitzer Changing cinema with a can of glue

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The invention of the «Cheenimartograrph» A pioneer, a pastor and a white lie

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(Literally) killed by a joke … there’s an insurance for that!

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On the margin of so many things George Cukor’s lessons in style

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The ballyhoo phonograph Music and early cinema

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«Doesn't Dickens write that way?» D.W. Griffith, the Biograph Company and an unusual picture

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«That’s he – that’s Valentino» The new Czar of Hollywood

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«The script is inane, vacuous, pompous, unreal, unbelievable – and dull» Joe Swerling, the man who knew how to take a story and tell it

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Freedom of censorship What was «obscene, indecent, inhuman, sacrilegious, likely to incite to crime» in 1915?

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«Garbo was man, woman and child.» Sunday brunch at John Gilbert’s

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«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.» The birth of screenwriting

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A stick in front of the screen Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America

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A great way to have fun and get paid for it Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent

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