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Kinetoscope
Seven Samurai
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Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Lady in the Lake
Stagecoach
Raging Bull
D.W. Griffith: Intolerance
Why do movie theatres serve popcorn?
Study film-making techniques employed in an adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints
How talkies replaced silent films
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