MPF 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Theodore Case, Lois Weber, Phonofilm
26 Aug 2016
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Mpf 327: film history & criticism before 1945. Cyrano de bergerac (1900) directed by clement maurice. Sound sync 20 years prior to the jazz singer. The jazz singer- mostly silent, some scenes of sync. Frederick winslow taylor: scientific analysis of organization, maximizing efficiency, precisely defined work routinized, tasks broken down into smallest possible component parts, divorce of knowledge from practice. Fordism and taylorism are the basic principles of the motion picture industry. Films+ important expressions of independent desires of urbanites in radically altered leisure realm.
