grade trivia best/worst films afi top 100 and best picture winners of last 10 years history of...
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Grade Trivia Best/Worst Films AFI Top 100 and Best Picture Winners of
Last 10 years History of Film
As you watch the clip…
Write down anything you notice from an analytical perspective – How do the filmmakers use techniques to tell a story?
The Birth of Film
1861 – Coleman Sellers patents the Kinematoscope – projects photos by flashing them rapidly on screen.
1890s – Thomas Alva Edison puts up a shack (“The Black Maria”) that becomes the world’s first movie studio
More Birthing
1895 - French Lumiere Brothers introduce cinematographe (printer, camera, projector) and organize first public performance of motion pictures
Example: The Sprinkler Sprinkled) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVj7kezK98&noredirect=1› Prepare to be amazed…!
Birth is a LONG Process
1903 – Edwin Porter produced first major American film, The Great Train Robbery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY› Let’s watch a clip
First film to have a beginning, middle and end (progression from movies about sneezes and train arrivals)
Visual Storytelling Focus on realism, action, compelling
plots The Birth of a Nation – 1915 – D.W.
Griffith – controversial Civil War film that pulled filmmaking together as an art form (close-ups, long shots, alternating close-ups, etc.)
Shifts in Industry
Move to The Hills (Hollywood, LA) 50% of films produced world-wide
came from here in 1914 Studios set up by independent
producers system
The Formation of the UA
1919 – United Artists Corporation and star› Producers and distributers tightening
salaries and creativity of stars.› So the film stars formed their own
company to control their work and their futures.
› Founders: Mary Pickford Charles Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks D.W.Griffith
Shifts in Industry
Stars over film 1926, 1927 - “Talkies” – Films with
sound Changed visual expression SO much
that some directors were hesitant to use sound
The Jazz Singer – first feature-length “talkie”
1920s also brought color – The Black Pirate, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz.
Studios
Large studios failed – too much $$$ 1930s and 1940s – desire to attract
MASS audience› Bland films› NOTHING objectionable
1950s – Communist paranoia invades Hollywood› Black lists› Witch hunts
Competition *Pick up here Monday, 12/2.
TV a major rival – Americans can be entertained without leaving home
To compete – films turn to sex and violence – topics banned from TV
The Birds and A Streetcar Named Desire had more adult themes
TV Movies of the Week – film industry realizes they can use TV for $
Film begins marketing TV; TV buys previously released movies
1960s and 1970s
Counter culture reflects in movies VCR Cable TV and HBO Celebrity magazines Theater chains Younger audiences
1980s-today First Blockbuster Video, Netflix, On Demand DVDS Pixar creates first short film – big step for
animation HUGE mergers (Sony buys Columbia and Tri-
Star, Warner merges with Time, Disney buys Miramax, Turner merges with New Line)
Dolby Stereo Digital Sound IMAX HDTV Illegal downloading