Estonian film did not appear in an empty place. Figuratively  speaking, every Estonian filmmaker has Johannes Pääsuke and his camera  standing behind him or her. If it weren’t for him, we would have no  reason to speak of the 100th anniversary of Estonian film. He created  the path that all future filmmakers took after him. World cinema was born in 1985 with the help of the Lumière brothers  in France. Besides those two, Thomas Alva Edison had something to do  with it as well. Their work was preceded by many kinds of optical toys  and the development of photography. Many were amazed by moving pictures.  The first film screened in Estonia, in Tallinn, in 1896 in the Great  Guild building on Pikk Street. The birth of Estonian film has been  marked at 1912. The first feature film, “Karujaht Pärnumaal” (“Bear Hunt  in Pärnumaa”), was completed in 1914. And thus it began... the birth  pains during the independence era, the work of Konstantin Märska and  Theodor Luts, and “Kutsu-Juku” (“Juku...