Camouflage - Wooden Guns - A camouflage gun in a camouflage town. A large part of the camouflage companies of the United States Army will be made up of full strength was recruited in 1917, from willing volunteers in Los Angeles, among the moving picture specialists. A demonstration held in one of the Los Angeles studios was a revelation of what camouflage means when it is done by expert movie men. These men changed the scene with a dexterity that was bewildering. A village was raised and its place taken by a forest. Photo shows huge gun camouflaged and filled with the aid of movie smoke

By 1908 there were 10,000 permanent movie theaters in the U.S. alone. For the first thirty years, movies were silent, accompanied by live musicians, sound effects, and narration. Until World War I, movie screens were dominated by French and Italian studios. During Great War, the American movie industry center, "Hollywood," became the number one in the world. By the 1920s, the U.S. was producing an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82% of the global total. Hollywood's system and its publicity method, the glamourous star system provided models for all movie industries. Efficient production organization enabled mass movie production and technical sophistication but not artistic expression. In 1915, in France, a group of filmmakers began experimenting with optical and pictorial effects as well as rhythmic editing which became known as French Impressionist Cinema. In Germany, dark, hallucinatory German Expressionism put internal states of mind onscreen and influenced the emerging horror genre. The Soviet cinema was the most radically innovative. In Spain, Luis Buñuel embraced abstract surrealism and pure aestheticism. And, just like that, at about its peak time, the silent cinema era ended in 1926-1928.