At the beginning, Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (The March of the Movies) was merely a presentation/lecture given by Otto Nelson at two National Board of Review conferences, in 1925 and 1926, under the title Early History and Growth of the Motion Picture Industry. These proved so successful that work on a film version began, with historian Terry Ramsaye (who around the same time published the seminal study A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture) coming onboard the production.
Otto Nelson
Director
Terry Ramsaye
Director
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound68%
Radium Girls65%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
Oslo65%
The Current War66%
Mank66%
Mayerling62%
Suffragette71%
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend64%
The Celluloid Closet72%
Richard Jewell74%
Ararat61%
Blackadder: Back & Forth70%
Radioactive65%
7 Women65%
Shattered Glass69%
Padomju stāsts73%
The Monuments Men60%
Son of the South64%
Killer Legends58%