The “motion pictures school” as a notion was born at the beginning in the 1910’€™s. During World War I, French cinema retired from the international and exacerbated competition with American cinema. Therefore, movie critics became very nationalistic and compared French productions with American and German cinema. These stereotypes influenced most of the aesthetic analysis of moving pictures. In the 1920’€™s, the notion of “international film” was developed in the French industry to promote French cinema and “French thought” outside the country. The first historians made use of this cinematographic patriotism in order to accurate the preeminence of French cinema. Critics and the history of moving pictures was totally be marked by this nationalistic approach.