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A videolecture by David Bordwell on the aesthetics of early Cinemascope in the United States.

This video lecture by David Bordwell looks at the artistic choices and changes that emerged in feature filmmaking from 1908–1920. Its primary focus is a general account of the changes in film style across this exciting period. Studying those changes obliges us to analyze sequences, which Bordwell does in a series of stills. The secondary focus of the lecture is an effort to trace three ways in which historians have s