MMC 2000 Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I Magazines Outline of Current Lecture II Start of Film a Early Pioneers Current Lecture Early Film Pioneers Technology Muybridge came up with the idea for the zoopraxiscope while taking pictures of horses The zoopraxiscope is a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface o The persistence of vision is the theory that allow for images grouped together be an retained It gives the perception that the image is moving Thomas Edison 1888 who saw Muybridge invention asked scientist William Dickson to take on the task of developing a new project o William Dickson is responsible for the kinetograph which takes 40 photographs per second Lumiere Brother s o Pantent the first cinematrographe in 1895 which was a device that photographed and projected action Kinetoscope Patented 1891 was a device to which you look down into to see the film it became popular and was feature in arcades and halls Films A trip to the moon 1903 Melies Was one of the first narrative movies Die for marriage 1913 First Chinese movie 400 million people biggest income market Content Porter invited the montage montages are several shots that combined together to add more meaning to the movies He taught how to tell a story Nickelodeons a theater where you could go and watch films where usually located in banks o You could watch movies for a nickel Griffith Taught people how to have passion in a movies started training artist Responsible for the passion and emotion in the movies o Made the movie The Birth of a Nation Thomas Edison Build the first motion picture studio called the Black Maria it was build to revolve with the sun to keep the actors illuminated The trust is the company responsible for producing movies had control over all production Established rules for making movies such a film length serious regulation Film makers were not enthralled about these regulations so they decided to move to the West because there were less enforcement and the weather was nicer so they had the year around opportunity to make films Film industry evolves Wild popularity o People could not read so film was more interesting o Immigrants were a great audience for production o Other countries did not makes movie could not compete with Hollywood o Other countries were involved in war and did not have the resources to produce or spirit to watch movies Warner Bro s o First movie with sound Censorship in Hollywood Studio control and vertical integration challenged the buying of studios 1938 the justice department begins to challenge the studios for monopoly practices o 1948 the supreme court ruled that the practice was illegal 1930 s the birth of the TV began to challenge the growth of the movie industry The movie industry starting investing more money to make better movies Religion groups and right wing people begin to accuse the film industry because of nude and drugs Starts self censorship MPPDA Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America o Founder General Will H Hays
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