From The Great Train Robbery (1903)) to Casablanca (1942) , Hollywood film studios made major scientific advancements in film production. In the next thirty-nine years they move from the first silent narrative film to the classical Hollywood style. Nevertheless one aspect of film making still remains the same; all films are based around a plot or narrative idea. Classical Hollywood style shows us how these major movie studios can now bring their films to life with sound, camera angle and what was called “point of view shots”. New forms of lighting (three-point lighting, high-key/low-key lighting and star lighting) and editing made it possible for filmmakers to make feature-length films.
Describe who George Balanchine was and what his affect on ballet has been since the turn of the twentieth century. All research must be cited properly! George Balanchine George Balanchine was one of the first choreographers in United States. He is known as the founder of American ballet. Balanchine was in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on January 22, 1904.
Edison built a production studio to make short films to see if the Kinetoscope could sell commercially. They opened parlors to exhibit the machines that lasted only two years when other inventors found ways to project film onto a screen. Dickson influenced the history of cinema. The 35mm film he developed was faster and it was used for silent filmmaking. The film is still used today and original films can be used on a modern projector.
CINEMASCOPE: Trade name used by 20th Century Fox for its widescreen process. First Cinemascope film was The Robe (1954). The 35mm image is “unsqueezed” in projection to a 70mm image. VISTAVISION: Paramount’s response to cinemascope, an non-anamorphic process that made the 35mm image twice as large. Because of its expense, now used primarily for special effects.
It did not simply have a voice, it had the organisational basis from which to grow and develop as a political force. The 1920’s saw the regrouping and consolidation of Congress and after the First World War the party became associated with Mahatma Gandhi. By the end of the 1920’s the British government were desperately striving to keep the empire and the British Raj intact while at the same time conciliation Indian opinion. The rise of Gandhi during this period is of great significance. By the early 1920’s Congress had become a political party with a mass appeal and a following of millions throughout India.
Music at the Turn of the Century While walking around the Stephenville Historical Museum there were two things in particular that caught my eye. They were both record players that dated back to the early 1900s, and one was even said to be from 1905.The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison, patented in 1878, and comes from the Greek word meaning sound and is literally translated to phone. Also, instead of vinyls like we know today, cylindrical tin foil was used to make the disk that would produce sound. When lines and grooves were cut or etched onto the disk, a needle would trace over the lines and the vibration from this process created sound. Soon after the invention caught on, the tin foil was replaced by cylindrical cardboard coated in wax, and eventually vinyl which of course is still used today.
According to his autobiography, he was the first to use two turntables and a microphone at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947. [22] It was billed as 'Jimmy Savile introducing Juke Box Doubles'. Savile is acknowledged as a pioneer of using twin turntables for continuous music playing,[23] although his claim to have been the first is disputed (twin turntables were illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929 and advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in
A Brief History of the Oscar Shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was incorporated in 1927, a dinner was held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the goals of the new organization. One of those goals was devising a method of honoring outstanding achievements, thus encouraging higher levels of quality in all facets of motion picture production. Once the decision had been made to institute an award, a major item of business was the creation of a trophy to symbolize film achievement. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed the statuette and Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley was selected to bring to three-dimensional form the figure of a knight standing on a reel of film, hands gripping a sword. The Academy's worldrenowned statuette was born.
Introduction This brief essay examines the shift in American-Jewish identity as represented in two Hollywood films produced about half a century apart. The films chosen, the Jazz Singer (1927) and The Way We Were (1973), represent distinct eras in Jewish cultural transformation from their Eastern European origins at the beginning of the last century, through to contemporary American Jewish culture. Through an analysis of various scenes in these movies, I will demonstrate Jewish cultural evolution resulting from the influences of the American “melting pot” ideology from the early days of Jewish immigration and later in the century - from American multiculturalism. These scenes can be seen as representing "narratives" of how Jewish identity
Film 211 September 23, 2014 Reading Notes: The American theatre and the coming of the Star System. * Before the war (American independence)(1775-81) companies of British actors toured the colonies of the new world. * Professional theatre began in 1752 by William Hallam, a London based manager who wanted his brother Lewis to have a career in acting. Early Film - Cinema without Stars * The star system was already established in American theatre by the end of the 19th century; early cinema did not immediately emulate the theatre business. * Film technology was developed in various contexts at the end of the century.