Cinema Across the World

Hammer Films is Britain’s most well known horror film studio, which started as a small company set up by William Hinds, a stage comedian who went by the stage name Will Hammer. The company got off to a slow start only producing five films before declaring bankruptcy. In 1938 the distribution company Exclusive Films invested… Continue reading British Horror

New Zealand’s film industry started to grow later than most other countries, yet has been producing feature films since 1914, when the film Hinemoa (George Tarr, 1914) was released as New Zealand’s first feature length film. Unfortunately the film is lost, along with all other films made up until 1922. The earliest surviving footage comes from The Birth… Continue reading New Zealand Cinema

After World War One, the German society was left feeling broken and isolated. This feeling was reflected in the art styles popular at the time, leading to the German expressionism art movement. From the 1910s to the 1930s, expressionist cinema was incredibly popular and led to a lot of important and influential films. As part… Continue reading German Expressionism

Throughout the history of filmmaking, Hollywood became and has remained the most prominent and well known place associated with film. From the early 1900s, filmmakers became interested in Los Angeles as a location due to its variety of landscapes and generally sunny weather with long hours of daylight. Hollywood at the time was a small… Continue reading The Hollywood Film Industry