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The History of Film & TV RAM 2013. Agenda. Grade Trivia Best/Worst Films AFI Top 100 and Best Picture Winners of Last 10 years History of Film. As you watch the clip…. Write down anything you notice from an analytical perspective – How do the filmmakers use techniques to tell a story?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: The History of Film & TV RAM  2013

The History of Film & TVRAM 2013

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Agenda Grade Trivia Best/Worst Films AFI Top 100 and Best Picture Winners of

Last 10 years History of Film

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As you watch the clip… Write down anything you notice from

an analytical perspective – How do the filmmakers use techniques to tell a story?

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The Birth of Film 1861 – Coleman Sellers patents the

Kinematoscope – projects photos by flashing them rapidly on screen.

1890s – Thomas Alva Edison puts up a shack (“The Black Maria”) that becomes the world’s first movie studio

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More Birthing 1895 - French Lumiere Brothers

introduce cinematographe (printer, camera, projector) and organize first public performance of motion pictures

Example: The Sprinkler Sprinkled) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVj7kezK98&noredirect=1› Prepare to be amazed…!

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Birth is a LONG Process 1903 – Edwin Porter produced first

major American film, The Great Train Robbery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY› Let’s watch a clip

First film to have a beginning, middle and end (progression from movies about sneezes and train arrivals)

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The Purpose of Movies… To tell stories to a mass audience

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Visual Storytelling Focus on realism, action, compelling

plots The Birth of a Nation – 1915 – D.W.

Griffith – controversial Civil War film that pulled filmmaking together as an art form (close-ups, long shots, alternating close-ups, etc.)

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Shifts in Industry Move to The Hills (Hollywood, LA) 50% of films produced world-wide

came from here in 1914 Studios set up by independent

producers system

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The Formation of the UA 1919 – United Artists Corporation and

star› Producers and distributers tightening

salaries and creativity of stars.› So the film stars formed their own

company to control their work and their futures.

› Founders: Mary Pickford Charles Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks D.W.Griffith

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Shifts in Industry Stars over film 1926, 1927 - “Talkies” – Films with

sound Changed visual expression SO much

that some directors were hesitant to use sound

The Jazz Singer – first feature-length “talkie”

1920s also brought color – The Black Pirate, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz.

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Visual Storytelling First movie star…any guesses?

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Charlie Chaplin!

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Other stars that popularized film

Judy Garland

Marilyn Monroe

Mary Pickford

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Studios Large studios failed – too much $$$ 1930s and 1940s – desire to attract

MASS audience› Bland films› NOTHING objectionable

1950s – Communist paranoia invades Hollywood› Black lists› Witch hunts

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Competition *Pick up here Monday, 12/2.

TV a major rival – Americans can be entertained without leaving home

To compete – films turn to sex and violence – topics banned from TV

The Birds and A Streetcar Named Desire had more adult themes

TV Movies of the Week – film industry realizes they can use TV for $

Film begins marketing TV; TV buys previously released movies

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1960s and 1970s Counter culture reflects in movies VCR Cable TV and HBO Celebrity magazines Theater chains Younger audiences

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1980s-today First Blockbuster Video, Netflix, On Demand DVDS Pixar creates first short film – big step for

animation HUGE mergers (Sony buys Columbia and Tri-

Star, Warner merges with Time, Disney buys Miramax, Turner merges with New Line)

Dolby Stereo Digital Sound IMAX HDTV Illegal downloading

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Looking ahead Monday, you’ll start learning about

mise en scene, a VERY important film concept, and we’ll watch a Tim Burton film in mid-December.