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Study tool for A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MOVIES: A FILM-BY-FILM LOOK AT THE ART, CRAFT, AND BUSINESS OF CINEMA"
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
09/04/2011

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1895
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First Public Projection of Film
Lumiere Brothers France
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Nickelodeon
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small early theaters, before feature film. Popular with working immigrants
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D.W Griffith
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Directed the first recognized feature length film The Birth of a Nation. Textbook cross cutting.
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1916
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Intolerence D.W Grifith
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1915
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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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65 million
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1925
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The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin
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1927
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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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Paramount
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Adolph Zukor
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Fox Film
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William Fox
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Warner Brothers
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Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack Warner
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924
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Louis B Mayer
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RKO in 1928
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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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Irving Thalberg
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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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MPPDA
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Hollywood's first trade association, 1922
Motion picture producers and distributors of america
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AMPAS
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academy of motion picture arts and science
1927, Oscars
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Production Code
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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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Leeland Stanford
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horse's feet 4 feet off ground
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Photoplay
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script for a silent film
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analytical editing
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altering perception through the editing process
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1913
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Edison messes with sound
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Warner Brothers Sound
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Sound on Disc w/ Western Electric in mid 1920's
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Fox Film Sound
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Sound on film (sound on one side of the film) mid 1920's
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1933 Sound impact
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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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Screwball Comedy
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It Happened One Night 1934 OSCAR
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