In Message Fri, 17 Jun 1994 09:04:27 PDT, Gene Stavis <[log in to unmask]> writes: >The fact is that, whether we approve or not, the earliest >developments of cinema (i.e. pre-1915) came almost exclusively from "Western" >countries. Whether because of technology, prejudice, economic reasons, there >is simply no extant evidence that, in this specific period, significant >pioneering work was done outside traditional Western countries (France, GB, >Italy, U.S., Germany, Russia, Scandanavia). >This is not a value judgment, it is simply a fact of history. This is *not* a fact of history, but rather a fact of how silent film history has been taught and our limited access to/knowledge of silent cinema in other parts of the world. To cite but one example: the documentary film movement provoked by the Revolution of 1910 in Mexico. Ana Lopez Tulane University