In the beginning a woman emerges from darkness and goes through a door. She glances fearfully into an imponderable exterior shaded midnight blue. What follows occurs rapidly, with related motifs: There is a slapstick (fat men and tall guys) and risqué images (women in changing rooms), melodramatic and moving scenes, while others are silly and destructive. 'Film ist. (7-12)' is a collection of moving pictures from the first thirty years of a medium which was then still silent. According to Gustav Deutsch, film is so many thing that a catalogue of what it can be must necessarily remain open.