When President Theodore Roosevelt retired from the Presidency, he immediately traveled to Africa to hunt big game in the name of the Smithsonian Institute. In the wake of this expedition, movies were made both with his permission and without it.

In the middle of the Trust War, and the indie rebellion, The French eye the American market and start establishing branch companies in the US.

Theater operator Roxy Rothephal started a drive to create a better movie watching experience by promoting better looking and larger movie theaters with the kind of amenities found in theater and high class department stores.

The moralist attitudes of Victorians was starting to focus its attention on the movies, and the Trust was responding in kind.

As the movie companies become interested in making western themed movies, a shift takes place as some ofthe companies start making westerns in the west.

The Edison Company was one of the few early movie companies to leave some historical record about how it made movies. We'll take a bit of a look at the work process.

A look at D.W. Griffith's early work at Biograph Studios.

In the shadow of Florence Lawrence's success at Biograph, another young actress appeared - MAry Pickford. This is her early story.

Not very long after the studios started hiring actors on a permanent basis, on of those actors suddenly became popular - The Biograph Girl.