Lecture 6 - Development of Film in America.pptVIP

Lecture 6 - Development of Film Oral English: Mr. Lee Juniors Classes 3 4 Video Production 2 In The Beginning Picture Wheels 1867 – Zoetrope –Male audience content Motion Pictures 1895 - France –portable camera -Cinematographe Thomas Edison 1891 – Kinetoscope – 1 viewer – sound experiment 1892 – 1st motion picture studio – male audiences 1896 – 1st commercial projector –Vitascope – Projectoscope – audiences theaters - vaudeville Developing The Motion Pictures 1896 – 1900– Edison Film Production Actuality Films – everyday occurrences tourist sights Comedy - skits Copyrights – film began in 1896 1898 – Spanish American War Filmed Burials, actual war footage reenactments The Motion Picture 1900 – 1906– Fictional Film in Nickelodeons ‘Jack the Beanstalk’ Assassinated President McKinley’s Funeral 1904 ‘The Great Train Robbery’ saw the advent of the 1st western star Bronco Billy 1904 also saw audiences demand acted films over actualities Small Nickelodeons emerged into movie theaters Era of Silent Film Black White 1900 -1910 – shorts 1910 -1920 Europe important until WWI 1920 – 1930 Hollywood Studio system – star system Interspaced with dialogue frames The slapstick comedy – keystone cops Charlie Chaplin – Buster Keaton Popcorn Theaters Talkies 1927 – 1st Sound Warner Brothers China – ‘The Goddess’ 1934 Wu Yong Gang 1930’s – Sound Saved Hollywood Disney – Snow White The Seven Dwarfs Wizard of Oz – 1st Color Monster Films - King Kong, Frankenstein Alfred Hitchcock – Britain – suspense thrillers Westerns–- Gone With The Wind Crime – Little Caesar – James Cagney The Golden Age of Hollywood 1940’s – Glamour Global Appeal Newsreels Stars – Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, John Wayne Animation – Disney - Dumbo, Fantasia, Bambi Westerns – Gene Autry, Tom Mix Life Politics – Citizen Kane – Orson Wells Patriotism Propaganda Casablanca Watch on the Rhine, Little Dictator Repression The Red Scare 1950’ s – House on Un-Amer