In the early years of narrative cinema there was little pressure on directors to "evolve cinematic forms before nickelodeons" (Salt, 1990, pp31) as cinema became neither a product nor a high cultural product and was still a novelty, but in recent years "the profits of production companies were based mainly on sales of longer fiction films" (Musser, 1990, pp256), so the focus was on the production of folk tales, then I will show how the early development Fiction evolved from gimmicky films to complex narrative. I will analyze the short film Mary Jane's Mishap (1903, Smith) and an excerpt from the seminal The Birth of a Nation (1915, DWGriffith). Mary Jane's Mishap was made when "multi-scene films were becoming popular" (Salt, 1990, pp32) It is notable for its use of experimental transitions. To “separate subsequent scenes” (Salt, 1990, pp32) Smith used vertical blinds to transition to a wider framing shot. This efficiently showed a time ellipse from the funeral to the people visiting his grave. DWGriffith also used imaginative shots, but popularized them rather than invented them, such as shots that added rhythm to character movement and narrative. In the silent era the titles of film inserts were important to explain the narrative to the primitive viewer not familiar with films, especially in films where the audience was not familiar with the story unlike "Porters The Night Before Christmas" (Musser , 1990, pp258). Griffith used inserted titles which "changed around 1905 to summaries of the action" (Burch, 1990, pp221). Since the film had a "self-contained narrative" (Burch, 1990, pp221) that lasted more than three hours, with poor camera quality to recognize the characters. But they were "systematically anticipating that... half of the paper... sees this film as a transition between early deceptive films and narrative cinema. The Birth of a Nation evolved in relation to the articulation between shots in terms of space and time” (Gunning, 1990, pp89) belongs to the third and fourth ciné genres As the “multi-shot narrative” lasting approximately three hours is edited, the “cut is de-emphasized” (Gunning, 1990, pp89). and is placed in the "fourth genre", as the plot is interrupted through parallel editing (Gunning, 1990, pp90). In conclusion, we can see that the cinematic narrative The Birth of a Nation has progressed from the deceptive cinematic narrative of Mary Jane's Mishap. to being identified according to Gunning as belonging to the third genre, both for the profitability and popularity of realistic cinema Going from being a theatrical stage to complex cinematography to tell a story suitable for the screen.