MSS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Keystone Studios, Mack Sennett, Douglas Fairbanks
28 Oct 2016
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The 1st film 1903 the great train robbery edwin s. porter. Poor man"s theater : elite people went to plays so poor people went to the movies. 1915: first epic film d. w. griffith"s the birth of a nation . Fox, metro-golwyn-mayer, paramount, warner brothers, columbia, universal, disney. Vertical integration- studio controlled every part of the process. Made the movies, distributed the movies, owned the theaters, money made was put back into making more movies. Paramount: model of what happened in hollywood over the years. Griffith, chaplin, douglas fairbanks and mary pickford(america"s sweetheart) Attendance jumps from 46million to 90 million in the 30s and 40s. 1927: silent movies to talkies : the jazz singer with al jolson. 1939: gone with the wind and the wizard of oz. Motion picture producers and distributors of america , 1927. Don"ts and be careful - guidelines to censor films.
