Explores modern architecture in film sets of the 1920s and 1930s including a comparison of architectural photographs with movie stills. Chapter 1 covers a brief history of modern architecture from 1925 through 1939. Chapter 2 gives an overview of film decor before its designers adopted modernism in the mid-1920s. Chapters 3 and 4 run chronologically through four periods between 1916 and 1939 and chart the first steps, breakthrough, dissemination, and decline of modern architecture in movies. Chapter 5 examines nine specific types of modern film decor.