The Emergence of Film Art. The evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present. Contents are broken into the following parts and sub-sections: Part One: The Silent Film (1900-1930): I. Creative Pioneers, II. The Supremacy of Technique, III. Toward a Silent Film Esthetic, Part Two: The Sound and Color Film (1930-1950): Introduction: An Expanding Art: IV. New Plastic Elements, V. Originality and Style, Part Three: The Creative Present (1950-): Introduction: New Realities, New Visions, VI. Patterns of Involvement, VII. The Seeds of Change, Acknowledgments, and Index.