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The Progress of Film History
Copyright © 2012, by Jay Seller, Ph.D.
In 1894 Thomas Edison and William Dickson invented the Kinetoscope and Vitascope
1895 Birth of Cinematography
The Lumiere Brothers were the earliest filmmakers.
1895 they created their own device combining camera with printer and projector, called the Cinematographe.
1895 Birth of Cinematography
1895 Birth of Cinematography
Robert W. Paul invented a film projector - Theatrograph, first public showing in 1895
1895 Birth of Cinematography
Films under a minute long and usually presented a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or slapstick.
Silent Era 1895-1927
Paris stage magician Georges Méliès did films of fantasy and the bizarre, including A Trip to the Moon (1902).
Silent Era 1895-1927
Edwin S. Porter, pushed forward the sophistication of film editing in works like the first movie Western, The Great Train Robbery (1903).
Boom in nickelodeons, the first permanent movie theaters - 10,000 in the U.S. alone by 1908.
(Cook, 1990)
Silent Era 1895-1927
Standard length of a film remained one reel, or about ten to fifteen minutes, partly based on producers' assumptions about the attention spans of their still largely working class audiences.
Silent Era 1895-1927
Silent Era 1895-1927
Leading the trend for longer movies, in America was director D.W. Griffith with his historical epics The Birth of a Nation (1915 - 190 minutes) and Intolerance (1916 – 197 minutes).
Birth of a Nation (1915)Credited with
securing the future of feature length films (films over 40 minutes) as well as solidifying the language of cinema.
Silent Era 1895-19271920s, U.S.
produced an average of 800 feature films annually, or 82% of the global total. (Eyman, 1997)
Talking Pictures 1927
1927, Warner Brothers Studios released The Jazz Singer,.
Golden Age of Hollywood
1927-1940’s
American cinema reached its peak of efficiently manufactured glamour and global appeal during this period.
Golden Age of Hollywood
Top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic movie stars, such as Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and the number one box office draw of the '30s, child performer Shirley Temple.
• Affordable for every household
• Brought the world to your living room
Golden Era of Radio 1930’s
Golden Era of Film 1940’s
Started in 1939 with The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind.
Television introduced to the American public at the 1939 NY World’s Fair
Golden Era of TV 1950’s
Filmmaking ProcessFilmmaking is a collaborative effort, bringing an assortment of talented people together.
Titanic (1997)
Pre-Production
Production
Post Production
Three Stages of Production
Batman: Dark Knight, (2008)
Pre-Production
Everything that takes place before filming begins
Script, budget, locations, set construction, casting, etc.
AFI Pre-Production Video The Avengers, (2012)
Shooting of the script, the filming process.
Production
The Hunger Games, (2012)
Editing and Marketing of a film
Includes; advertising, printing, and distribution of a movie.
Post Production
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, (2012)
Vaudeville, 1880-1920
Burlesque, 1840-1930
Follies, 1907-1931
Theatre Style Progression
Studio System
• Complete control
• Studio contract players & staff
Independent System
• Individual control
• Independent contract workers
Hollywood Systems
• Motion Picture Association of America, 1967 to today.
Censorship in Hollywood
• Production Code Administration – 1934 to 1967, also known as the Hays Office
(Will H. Hays, MPAA Pres. 1922-1945)