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Mind Map by Joanna MacQueen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joanna MacQueen
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Silent Films
- Early Inventions
- Kinetograph &
Kinetoscope
- Early moving pictures, concept for projection of films
- Kinetographic theatre: non fiction films
- Kinetographic theatre: non fiction films
- Early moving pictures, concept for projection of films
- Lumiere Brothers
- Cinematographe: camera & projector
- 1895 20 mins of 10 shorts. Streets of Lion. 'Arrival of a train'
- 1895 20 mins of 10 shorts. Streets of Lion. 'Arrival of a train'
- Cinematographe: camera & projector
- George Melies
- Hugo, 2011
- Trip to the Moon 1902
- First fiction in films
- Special effects, narrative, plots,
character development, illusion
- Special effects, narrative, plots,
character development, illusion
- First fiction in films
- Stage magician,
lacking close ups-
theatre like
- Hugo, 2011
- Kinetograph &
Kinetoscope
- Music Connections
- Short films. Crossover acts , cover
scene changes. Same audiences &
programmes.
- Street scenes used by
travelling showmen,
short life spans.
- Street scenes used by
travelling showmen,
short life spans.
- Nickelodeons
- Rise of feature film 1914
- 1909 fire safety, keeping
and projecting film-
Cinemotograph Act
- Small, cheap, cramped. Working Class. Unsanitary!
- Rise of feature film 1914
- Emotional cues for audience
- Cue sheet 'play happy'
- First score Birth of a Nation 1915
- Cue sheet 'play happy'
- Short films. Crossover acts , cover
scene changes. Same audiences &
programmes.
- Hollywood
- Renting not selling to
exhibitors
- Motion Pictures Patent Company
- 1908. Edison patents. Wanted a legal
monopoly. Aimed to stifle independents.
- Declared an illegal monopoly by 1915.
- Declared an illegal monopoly by 1915.
- 1908. Edison patents. Wanted a legal
monopoly. Aimed to stifle independents.
- Moving to california- Laemmle.
Universal City.
- Climate, location variety,
non union labour, cheap
property
- Population grew so that 60% US
film making here by 1915.
- Money saving as not film by film. Control
of directors and stars . Wall Street financing.
- Big 5: Warner Bros, Future
Paramount, RKO, MGM, Fox
- Population grew so that 60% US
film making here by 1915.
- Escapist entertainment; Serials (return audiences), Westerns (scenery), Gangsters, Romance,
Silent comedies, Classics adaptions (Shakespeare, News (inbetween shorts), Propoganda
- Renting not selling to
exhibitors
- Film makers
- DW Griffith, Birth of Nation, first 3 hour, original score, 12 reels, controversial pro KKK!
- German expressionism 1920s- art form
- Eistenstein Russian, montage,
Battleship Potemkin 1925.
(Compared to journey to the moon,
quick development)
- Hitchcock stylized. Europe influence.
- Moves to Hollywood. Silent film - no barriers in language. Rise of fascism in 1930s- happy to get out!
- DW Griffith, Birth of Nation, first 3 hour, original score, 12 reels, controversial pro KKK!
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