This essay will endeavour to look critically at the development of cinematic practices between 1895 and 1940. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian dog) (1928) and Birth of a Nation (1915) will be examined, with consideration to their impact on cinematic practices: both technical and theoretical. The first commercial film ever was screened during the Christmas of 1895 to a paying public at the Grand Parade Café in France. This is seen as the invention of cinema. During the next twenty …showed first 75 words of 1072 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1072 total…of thinking so that directors were free to try new methods to achieve their ultimate visual goal. Thanks to these two films, cinema is what it is today. Bibliography ·www.wayney.pwp.lueyonder.co.uk/CA.htm Saturday 22nd November 3.31pm ·www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~basement/reviews/chienanadlou ·Film as Art seventh edition, 2003, David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson. McGraw Hill Productions ·Time and Space Lecture Notes week 4 and week 7 ·Time and Space required reading notes