FILM TV 106A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cinerama Holiday, Bwana Devil, Mike Todd
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Three cameras, three screens, three projectors: could only show in few theatres, only made travel-on documentaries. 1962: wonderful world of the brothers grimm. Mistakes were common, 3d fad faded fast. Cinemascope: fox(cid:859)s trade(cid:373)arked (cid:374)a(cid:373)e for (cid:1006). (cid:1007)5:(cid:1005) widescree(cid:374) i(cid:373)age. Sdds (blue) sony dynamic digital sound. Dts time code (purple) cd has sound. Frozen foreign profits: revenue gained from foreign films could not be transferred to hollywood, used the profits to shoot at foreign locations instead. 1951: the miracle decision: movies are put into the censorship category of books, magazines, newspapers, movies cannot be censored anymore. 1972: deep throat (cid:858)7(cid:1004)s o(cid:374), (cid:374)e(cid:449)spapers (cid:449)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t ad(cid:448)ertise x-rated films because of complaints, informal ban on x-rated films because newspapers were the main source of advertisements. Radios and music industry began appealing to young adult, teenage audience. Movie industry saw this and began brainstorming how to tag along, eventually making more movies that appealed to teenagers instead of just the mass audience.
