This widely praised site is the work of Tim Dirks of Palo Alto, California. This site has a handy internal search engine . EYE media produce this site in Chicago. Edited by Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross for Cinebooks Inc. of Chicago in 1985. This 12 volume encyclopedia presents basic information on some 50,000 titles including about 3000 entries on movies from the silent era.
All information is organized under movie title.
Greatest Films - Cinematic History by Decade Excellent history of cinema organized into a series of essays outlining the chronological development of films by decade and emphasizing the greatest American movies of the period. A subsection of Tim Dirks website - Greatest Films. The history of cinema is divided into six parts or chapters. 1996b - Hayden Reference Sklar, Robert. An International History of the Medium .