FILM 2401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Silent Film, Melodrama, Industrial Revolution
4 Dec 2014
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Chapter 1: started as a tool for science, first 10 years of movies were documentaries (called actualities then, either everyday events or major world events, narratives became dominant after 1907. 1893 edison invents kinetiscope, can only be viewed by one person at a time: lumiere brothers of france credited with development of cinema, first to offer projection. Marked the beginning of cinema (produced train arriving film, Griffith, 1909: early film industry was centered around new york and new jersey, cameraman ran the whole production. Chapter 2 how the movies became big business: moved to west coast for a variety of reasons, weather. Independents took them to court, by 1915 court declared mppc an illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade. Certain individuals were in demand: mary pickford and charlie chaplin, leveraged popularity into enormous salaries, control, and becoming producers of their own work. Chapter 3 the emergence of the studio system of production and labor relations in.
