The movies mentioned here are a strong starting point for anyone who wants a unique course in American history, but a deeper dive into American cinema will paint a larger, stranger, and more ...

That made for a lot of competition in the early days of the movie business — competition that fueled the rise of an indie-films culture as early as 1909. Not that you'd know it from the history ...

While at first, movie audiences were located in poor areas of a city or town, business owners began to appreciate the broader appeal of film exhibition and opened theaters in nicer neighborhoods.

For more on early animation, you won't go wrong with Donald Crafton's Before Mickey —the most ambitious history of animation from 1898-1928 ever published. This post also appears on Brain Pickings.