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First Public Projection of Film
Lumiere Brothers France |
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| small early theaters, before feature film. Popular with working immigrants |
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| Directed the first recognized feature length film The Birth of a Nation. Textbook cross cutting. |
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| The Birth of a Nation. DW Griffith. |
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| Cross-Cutting (parallel editing) |
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| cutting scenes to show action at two different locations at the same time. |
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| Shift from New York/New Jersey to Southern California |
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| 1912-1917. Escaping the Edison Trust. Good Climate, cheap land, lots of landscape. Distance from the eastern establishment. |
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| Three Branches of the Motion Picture Industry |
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| Production, Distribution, Exhibition |
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| Weekly Movie Attendance in 1925 |
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| The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin |
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| The Jazz Singer Alan Crosland starring Al Jolson Warner Brothers |
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| Five vertically integrated studios |
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Paramount
Fox Film
Warner Brothers
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1924
RKO 1928 |
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| Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack Warner |
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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924 |
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| David Sarnoff and Joseph P Kennedy |
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| structure of vertically intergrated studios in 1920's |
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| Public companies w/ business offices in NYC and production in LA |
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| Major Studios not vertically integrated |
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| Columbia, United Artists, Universal |
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MGM, created management system that held tight control over pre and post production
put a lot of faith in test audiences |
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Hollywood's first trade association, 1922
Motion picture producers and distributors of america |
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academy of motion picture arts and science
1927, Oscars |
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Written by Daniel Lord and Martin Quigley of MPPDA
1930
In 1934 Joseph Breen, a Catholic Lawyer, took over admin and enforced it. |
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| Classic Hollywood Standard |
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| Movies for people 8 to 80 |
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| horse's feet 4 feet off ground |
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| altering perception through the editing process |
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| Sound on Disc w/ Western Electric in mid 1920's |
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| Sound on film (sound on one side of the film) mid 1920's |
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| Booms for mics, blimps (enclosures) for cameras, rubber wheeled dollies, omni mic's. |
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| Rule for Color in in early cinema |
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| Color for musicals, B and W for serious |
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| It Happened One Night 1934 OSCAR |
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