1922
Robert Flaherty directs “ Nanook of the North ”, which portrays intimate details of Inuit life.
1924
Fernand Leger makes “Le ballet mechanique ” his landmark avant-garde film in which he experiments with camera-created motion and rhythm.
Anna Pavlova is filmed dancing her solos, including The dying swan , on the set of Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad.
Rene Clair makes Entr'acte , a dadaist film, to be shown during the intermission of the ballet Relache by Picabia.
 
1927
John L. Baird demonstrates the first video system.
1928
Diaghilev uses film projections in Leonide Massine's ballet Ode.
Sergei M. Eisenstein makes a rapid montage of three soldiers dancing in three different styles in his film October.
1928
First scheduled television broadcasts by WGY, Schenectady, NY.
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First color motion pictures exhibited by George Eastman in Rochester, NY.
1929
All-dancing, all-singing revue films begin to appear.
Rouben Mamoulian directs Applause , which contains very fluid, rhythmic motion by the standards of early sound film.
Mary Wigman's Hexetanz is filmed in Germany.