3000 presentation 9: cinema history part 2 the southern gentleman
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Cinema HistoryThe Wizard and The Southern Gentleman
Edward Bowen
Introduction to Motion Pictures
History of Motion PicturesThomas Edison, "The Wizard of Menlo Park,” inventor of the electric light, the phonograph, and the movies.
True of False?
History of Motion PicturesThomas Edison - The Films (1891 – 1918)
http://youtu.be/jBoyzwLBXpU Edison.mov
History of Motion Pictures“The Sneeze” (1894) Edison
About 5 Seconds
http://youtu.be/2wnOpDWSbyw
History of Motion PicturesL'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) Lumiere
About 1 minute
http://youtu.be/b9MoAQJFn_8
History of Motion Pictures“The Kiss” or “May Irwin Kiss” (1896) Edison
About 20 seconds
http://youtu.be/Q690-IexNB4
History of Motion Pictures“Santa Claus” (1898) George Albert Smith
About 1.5 minutes
http://youtu.be/bmSJ5SAXHws
History of Motion PicturesHistoire d'un crime (1901) Ferdinand Zecca
Around 5 minutes
http://youtu.be/4fzObxlvOC8
History of Motion Pictures Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) Georges MeliesAround 15 minutes
http://youtu.be/iTEODB_s87M
History of Motion Pictures“The Life of an American Fireman” (1903) William S.
Porter / Edison About 6 minutes
http://youtu.be/nyjceskGZIc
History of Motion Pictures“The Great Train Robbery” (1903) William S. Porter /
Edison About 12 minutes
http://youtu.be/Bc7wWOmEGGY
History of Motion Pictures“Rescued by Rover” (1905) Cecil HepworthAround 6 minutes
http://youtu.be/QzygbgYCa5U
History of Motion Pictures“The Story of the Kelly Gang” (1906) Charles Tait 70 minutes
http://youtu.be/ExG5iY8QgaQ
History of Motion Pictures1908 – Edison founds and heads the Motion Picture Patents Company, known as “the Trust.” By 1910 the Trust controls half of all U.S. theaters.•D.W. Griffith directs his first film, “The Adventures of Dolly,” for American Mutoscope and Biograph.
History of Motion PicturesFrom 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.
7:12 http://youtu.be/lO75AXdZ3IE
History of Motion Pictures1910 – D.W. Griffith starts traveling to Los Angeles to shoot films, following a trend that began in 1907.
History of Motion PicturesFrom 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.
History of Motion Pictures
From 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.
5:30 http://youtu.be/GDxRWtaNYRc
History of Motion PicturesWomen in early cinema.
5:15 http://youtu.be/Ip24wEq1fzE
History of Motion Pictures1910 - 26 million people are going to the movies a year – roughly a quarter of the population.
1914 – Nearly every city in American with a population of more than 4,000 has a movie theater.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.•Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.•Sykes-Picot Agreement: The governments of Britain and France secretly agree to overtake the Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq), and establish their own zones of influence.
History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.•Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.•Sykes-Picot Agreement: The governments of Britain and France secretly agree to overtake the Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq), and establish their own zones of influence.•1915 - The U.S. Department of Justice declares the Edison trust an illegal monopoly and breaks it up.
History of Motion Pictures1915•50th Anniversary of the End of the Civil War
History of Motion Pictures1915•The Romance of the South
History of Motion Pictures1915•50th Anniversary of the Passage of the 13th Amendment
History of Motion PicturesFebruary 8, 1915
http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/Nickeledeon Birth Premiere.mov
History of Motion Pictures
“The Birth of a Nation”
27:54 https://www.fandor.com/films/dw_griffith_father_of_film
History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”
http://youtu.be/ymhKFaeLVmE http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/ebowen/ Father of Film Birth. Mov
History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”
http://youtu.be/YeTeYGRWpvU
History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVognai5P4
History of Motion Pictures1915•The Ku Klux Klan is reborn•At it’s peak in the 1920s, membership exceeded 4 million
http://youtu.be/5u1QARlCph0 1928
History of Motion Pictures1915•Growth in membership of NAACP•1909 – Three hundred•1917 – Nine thousand•1919 – Ninety thousand
http://youtu.be/5u1QARlCph0 1928
History of Motion Pictures1865•The Passage of the 13th Amendment
History of Motion Pictures1898•The Wilmington Insurrection•Racial Segregation and Disenfranchisement•White Supremacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 1928
History of Motion Pictures1910-1930 The Great Migration
1.6 million moved from rural areas in the south to Northern and Midwestern industrial cities.
History of Motion Pictures1915 “The Birth of A Nation”
Exporting racism?
History of Motion Pictures1916•Congress holds hearing on the possible federal censorship of content in movies; nothing is decided. •There are approximately 21,000 movie theaters in the United States with an average seating capacity of 500.•“Easy Street” Charlie Chaplin
http://youtu.be/eyxMc1mG5Ns
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Oscar Michaeux produces his first motion pictures, “The Homesteader” and “Within Our Gates.
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Oscar Michaeux produces his first motion pictures, “The Homesteader” and “Within Our Gates.
“Midnight Ramble” (1994)
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Chicago, “Flying Ace” Slapstick
“http://vimeo.com/10396511
History of Motion Pictures• 1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)• Lynching, “The Birth of a Nation” “By Right of Birth”
“http://vimeo.com/10396511
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Nobel Johnson
“http://vimeo.com/10396511
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Oscar Micheaux “The Homesteader”
“http://vimeo.com/10396511
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Oscar Micheaux, Controversial Subject Matter
“http://vimeo.com/10396511
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
“Within Our Gates”
“http://vimeo.com/10572660
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Theaters, Quality
“http://vimeo.com/10572660
History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)
Quality
“http://vimeo.com/10572660
History of Motion Pictures• 1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)• “Body and Soul” Paul Robeson
“http://vimeo.com/10572660