Screenwriter's Corner

Between 1919 and 1924 the offspring of Caligari, the Schuerfilme (films of fantasy and terror), flourished in Germany.  You can see one of ...

Besides being full of scandals due to the “new morality” during the 20s, Hollywood was also full of comedy.   It was the golden age of silen...

Early filmmakers flocked to Hollywood and it wasn’t just because it never rains in Southern California.  It was because it was close to the ...

Before the revolution films weren’t very popular in Russia so there wasn’t much of an industry.  The working class was too impoverished and ...

Let’s take a dark journey, one that brings us to pre-war Germany, before the first World War.   The German’s have not taken to creating thei...

The Birth of a Nation was not the first film to make an artistic statement nor was it the first epic film -- that second distinction belongs...

While most studios were forced into one reels by the MPPC and believing film would never be more than churned out cheap entertainment,  some...