The selections from Beja Margitházi, assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University's Department of Film Studies, begin in Canada and move eastward. They also jump between genres and culminate in an early directorial effort from Michael Curtiz and a representation of the cinema of her native Hungary.

Beja is editor of the film theory and history journal Metropolis. She is also the author of The Cinema of the Face: Close-up and Film Style and co-editor of the anthology Visual Communication.

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• The Undesirable (1914) - Michael Curtiz
• Blue Blood (1914) - Nino Oxilia
• Fantômas (1914) - Louis Feuillade
• Daisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence Turner
• In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) - Edward S. Curtis
• The Student of Prague (1913) - Stellan Rye
• Atlantis (1913) - August Blom
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) - Victor Sjöström
• Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni Pastrone
• Nanook of the North (1922) - Robert J. Flaherty
• Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
• The Kiss (1896) - William Heise
• Photographing a Female Crook (1904) - Wallace McCutcheon
• The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad