ABSTRACT
During the war, German fi lm production had expanded and infl uenced the industry due to the country’s isolation, though, as has also been pointed out in Chapter 2, imports had hardly ceased completely. It nevertheless still took some time after the war before foreign productions could offi cially be imported again into Germany. It was only in 1921 that the import ban on American fi lms was lifted after almost four years. Then, both the American and German fi lm industries that had changed so much during the war had to get reacquainted. In Germany this took place through the overabundant presence of serials.
