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the history of cinema the history of cinema * the history a movie theater or movie theatre (also called a cinema, movie house, film house, and film theater or picture house) is a venue, usually a building, for viewing films or movies. in the us, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the uk and elsewhere it is theatre. however, many us theaters opt to use the british spelling in their own names, a practice supported by the national association of theatre owners, while apart from north america most english-speaking countries generally use the term cinema. the latter terms, as well as their derivative adjectives "cinematic" and "kinematic", ultimately derive from greek’ movement", "motion". in the countries where those terms are used, the word "theatre" is usually reserved for live performance venues. colloquial expressions, mostly applied to motion pictures and motion picture theaters collectively, include the silver screen …
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lue to film. * the seven ages of film the mass media age 1980 - present film & movies as part of the global entertainment / communications media digital production * history mechanisms for producing moving images had been demonstrated from the 1860s. - zeotropes praxinoscopes kineoscopes * history these relied on the “persistence of vision” to provide an illusion of movement if the images were moved at sufficient speed past the viewer. * history the development of the motion picture projector and film stock allowed the development of film. early motion pictures were static shots showing an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques as this series showing a nude walking demonstrates. * history early films were a visual art until the late 19th century when they developed into a narrative with a series of scenes linked together to tell a story. scenes were broken up …
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o indentifies four factors: current events & achievements. (political climate) the creativity of the film-makers who influenced the team of crafts-people involed in the films. the technical developments that could be exploited. the capacity of a sufficient audience to appreciate the results. * changing process of cinema the division between film and movie creates two views of quality and purpose. movies = this is a commercial differentiation = popular entertainment with a mass circulation of copies of the movie. the audience being largely passive. . the product of an industry dominated by the producer (money) in which there is no individual film-maker but a team under the producer’s control. (the studio system.) the director is hired to create the movie from the script. the final version is, however, the responsibility of the producer and editor. the director of a movie is known as: metteur en scene = an interpreter of …
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th and the rise of the ku klux klan. * progressions - the silent film griffith’s success was also his undoing. his films - intolerance -the mother & the law and the fall of babylon put him into debt. as a result financiers ceased to regard the film-makers as the king-pins of production and decided to build up the film-star in their place - to put control in the hands of the producer, aided by his team of organisers and writers. (the hollywood system). this favoured the movie over the film and reduced the risk for the banks. it also meant that the actor was out of place in the movie world as his / her versatility would make them unrecognisable and therefore valueless commercially. but they also introduced the langage (french = way of speaking) of the film- long shot / mid shot/ close-up and their variations.these terms allowed …
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hs at a cost of 115,000 dead. the 10 years of prosperity in the usa allowed the industry to gain dominance. * the advent of sound sound and film were slow to accommodate each other. sound technology was clumsy and difficult to link to the speed of the film. sound made it difficult to film in the open air, to film without interfering with lighting, without interfering with the way the actors spoke and with the number of cameras able to be used. sound forced film to adapt and develop new narrative techniques. * sound historical events and the sound film. the depression (1929-35) encouraged the development of the conventions of the gangster movie (the urban western ) and comedies that saw ordinary folk standing up against corrupt big business. world war ii encouraged the development of the propaganda film and again helped the usa gain dominance of the movie …

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the history of cinema the history of cinema * the history a movie theater or movie theatre (also called a cinema, movie house, film house, and film theater or picture house) is a venue, usually a building, for viewing films or movies. in the us, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the uk and elsewhere it is theatre. however, many us theaters opt to use the british spelling in their own names, a practice supported by the national association of theatre owners, while apart from north america most english-speaking countries generally use the term cinema. the latter terms, as well as their derivative adjectives "cinematic" and "kinematic", ultimately derive from greek’ movement", "motion". in the countries where …

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