JOUR 1210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Douglas Fairbanks, Warner Bros., Edwin S. Porter
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The development of movies: began in the 1880s, grew from 10 minute films, movie attendance peaked in the 1940s. The first movie makers: edison, marey, and muybridge, kinetoscope. Early french filmmakers: auguste and louis lumiere created early movie technology, cinetomagraphe: a portable movie camera, set standards for speed, one of the first movies to tell a story. Edwin porter: created one of the first hit movies in the us, action film, his movie told a realistic story. D. w. griffith: made the first modern length film. Feature length film: over an hour rather than 25 minutes. In the early days of movies producers were reluctant to give actors screen credit: the audience liked certain actors. The studio system: the first movies in america were filmed in new york and new jersey, moved to california to have almost constant sunlight and to avoid edison"s patenting control of the movie making industry. Studio system: paramount pictures, mgm, warner bros, block booking.
