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Silent Films
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Bachelors Degree Media History Mind Map on Silent Films, created by Joanna MacQueen on 05/01/2015.
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Silent Films
Early Inventions
Kinetograph & Kinetoscope
Early moving pictures, concept for projection of films
Kinetographic theatre: non fiction films
Lumiere Brothers
Cinematographe: camera & projector
1895 20 mins of 10 shorts. Streets of Lion. 'Arrival of a train'
George Melies
Hugo, 2011
Trip to the Moon 1902
First fiction in films
Special effects, narrative, plots, character development, illusion
Stage magician, lacking close ups- theatre like
Music Connections
Short films. Crossover acts , cover scene changes. Same audiences & programmes.
Street scenes used by travelling showmen, short life spans.
Nickelodeons
Rise of feature film 1914
1909 fire safety, keeping and projecting film- Cinemotograph Act
Small, cheap, cramped. Working Class. Unsanitary!
Emotional cues for audience
Cue sheet 'play happy'
First score Birth of a Nation 1915
Hollywood
Renting not selling to exhibitors
Motion Pictures Patent Company
1908. Edison patents. Wanted a legal monopoly. Aimed to stifle independents.
Declared an illegal monopoly by 1915.
Moving to california- Laemmle. Universal City.
Climate, location variety, non union labour, cheap property
Population grew so that 60% US film making here by 1915.
Money saving as not film by film. Control of directors and stars . Wall Street financing.
Big 5: Warner Bros, Future Paramount, RKO, MGM, Fox
Escapist entertainment; Serials (return audiences), Westerns (scenery), Gangsters, Romance, Silent comedies, Classics adaptions (Shakespeare, News (inbetween shorts), Propoganda
Film makers
DW Griffith, Birth of Nation, first 3 hour, original score, 12 reels, controversial pro KKK!
German expressionism 1920s- art form
Eistenstein Russian, montage, Battleship Potemkin 1925. (Compared to journey to the moon, quick development)
Hitchcock stylized. Europe influence.
Moves to Hollywood. Silent film - no barriers in language. Rise of fascism in 1930s- happy to get out!
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