The early nineteenhundreds saw the appearance in Denmark of both photography and silent-movies. The Romanoffs were very eager amateur photographers, and the new media silent-movies was a great means of showing off the official and public appearances of royalty. In Denmark, the pioneer Peter Elfelt was the very first photographer to introduce silent-movies, and accordingly “shot” a great many interesting and historic “living pictures”. Denmark actually became the very first “Hollywood” and had a thrilling and very productive period of silent-movie making. It is very interesting, that the newest and latest of technical inventions were also used so liberally in the service of royalty. The top photograph includes still photographs from the Danish production The Cossack-Prince featuring German actors, from 1910, The Bear Hunt from 1908 and even from Red Russia from 1912.