FILM 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Studio System
Document Summary
The cartoon was more like a children"s book with narration of each and everything happening on screen, it was relying on telling rather than showing. Animation was treated as an abstract art in that time before realistic animation came into place. Cartoons have a hollywood history and were carried on to television. It is not just a simple genre, but gave some complex social and political messages too. The main target were children on saturday and sunday mornings. Cartoons became associated with childhood as an integral part of it. The second cartoon critiqued and ridiculed the usual hollywood films with clich s like scientists having a revolutionary formula, a villain wanting the formula, a femme fatale getting into the scientist"s life to get the formula from him, etc. Marty was a tv drama based on the film-noir genre. Robin hood"s serial structure was organized around sequential advertising. The end of classic hollywood was the beginning of television.
