HIST200 Chapter Notes -Egyptian Hall, May Irwin, Science Fiction Film
27 Feb 2014
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This lecture is titled in the beginning the birth of movies. If we take the beginning of our modern world as starting around 1895, for example, and go to that year we would find that there was a lot going on. This was the year in which freud first published his works on psychoanalysis. This was the year when marconi was busy pioneering wireless telegraphy. This was the year when the flow of money between the united states and europe was reversed for the first time with the united states sending more money to europe than it owed. The cinema from the beginning performed several functions, not the least of which was the use that the large imperial powers put to cinema to show documentary footage of the empire, especially in exotic locales. That allowed people at home to see the peoples that were being.
