- It was a period of experimentation, started with puppetry in ancient egypt. They used lights to project shadows.
- Everything was born out of magic lantern effect.
- Creates sense of persistence of vision
- Edward Murray, creator of Cinema?
- Created a camera with a frame rate of 30fps
- Added motor to it
- Paris became center of cinematography
- Led to creation of CinemaScope
1910's:
1920's:
- Henry King and Alfred Hitchcock make their marks directorially
- Alan Crossland
- The Jazz Singer becomes first musical
- F.W. Murneau is widely considered best of the time period
- Charlie Chaplin, Douglass Fairbanks
- First sound films released
- Most films do not survive because they were flammable
- Warner Brothers creates Vitaphone to record sound
- In 1929, they still gave the oscars to a silent films
- "The Golden Age of Hollywood"
- First drive-in theatre
- Talkies become popular
- Double-channel soundtrack
- Three Color Technicolor
- Flowers and Trees becomes first animated film.
- Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind
- "Damn" causes scandal in Hollywood in GWTW
- Snow White becomes first feature length animated film
- Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney actors
- George Cooper, Jack Conway directors
- It Happened One Night sweeps Oscars
- Mr.Smith Goes to Washington
- Gangster and Horror are popular
- Charlie Chaplins continues making silent films
- The Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton dominate comedy
- Most studios die during depression
- Real world plotlines during depression
- Charlie Chaplin surrenders in and makes first talkie(The Great Dictator)
- '40's feature star-studded extravaganzas
- Clark Gable, James Stewart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman actors
- Frank Capra directors
- Most plots take place during wartime
- A lot of wartime propaganda
- Casablanca
- Humphrey Bogart
- Film Noir
- Drive-Ins popular featuring films that have anti-establishment themes
- Eva Gardner, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn, James Dean actors
- TV causes decline in film attendance
- Bigger Screens, 3-D's and other gimmicks attempt to bring in audience.
- Cinerama pioneers I-Max
- Epics based on Greeks, Romans, and biblical stories
- Sexuality in films becomes more significant
- Anti-Communist films
- Adult themes become more apparent in film
- Wizard of Oz(TV Version), Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds
- Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Orson Welles directors
- Lawrence in Arabia, The Great Escape, In the Heat of the Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Bond films
- Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne
- First multiplex opens in 1963 in Kansas City
- Brian DePalma's Greetings becomes first X-Rated film
- The rating system is established
- Psycho creates the slasher genre
- Pornography becomes popular
- Sex and Violence becomes popular as seen in film posters
- Tickets cost 2.50
- Jaws, Star Wars
- VHS released
- Hollywood studios no longer directly controlled productions
- Independent studios and agents were in charge of everything
- On-location filming at rented production locations
- Actors also directed, produced, and wrote their films.
- New directors create new style of art
- Look and sound surpasses plots
- Halloween changes horror
- Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are highly successful
- Less experimental, more orginal
- Teenage aim
- The Brat Pack
- The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High,
- Useless Sequels
- Film's favor Reagan's type presidency
- Average film cost is around 53 million
- 5 dollar films
- More artistic, eccentric film
- Indy's compete with Hollywood
- VCR's owned by everyone
- 1997, first DVD made, better quality and durability.
- Special effects reach new levels
- Dreamworks is filmed in 1994
- Forrest Gump, Fight Club, Clerks, A Few Good Men
- Al Pacino, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt
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