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    This comprehensive study of the Danish film company demonstrates how it became one of the most important innovators of the silent era.Established in 1906, Nordisk Films Kompagni's rise and fall is one of the most dramatic stories of the early film industry. Based on archival research, primarily in the company's surviving business archives, this volume describes and analyzes how Nordisk Films ... Read more

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    One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population to the Black Death in 1349, ended up in a union with Denmark that lasted until 1814, and then became ... Read more

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