HUMA 2740 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cinema Of The United States, Pbs, Silent Film
12 Oct 2018
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HUMA 2740
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
HUMA 2740
Lecture 1
Why did the movies appear in the late 19th century?
A number of factors came together in 1890s allowing motion pictures to
take off:
1) The Scientific Impulse
a. Captures imagination of society
b. Ability to record world and desire to develop technologies to
understand the world
c. Push for technology (for science)
2) The social Context – industrialization, urbanization and the need for
cheap entertainment for new working class
a. New forms of and mass entertainment
b. People paying money for entertainment (e.g. services, theatres,
amusement parks)
c. Society going under mass industrialization (e.g. cities appear) –
work is long (long hours) and people want to relax
d. Science and tech and need for entertainment come together
- Photographs appear in late 18th century (around 1930) – recording
the world
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- First to develop a camera able to project images on the wall
- First exhibition of projected motion pictures
- December of 1895 – held first commercial exhibition of films to an
audience in Paris (produced a series of short films)
- Southern France and Paris
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- Became an early model for film industry
- Copied by major film industries in a few months, movies copied and
sold in US for example
Edward Muybrudge (1830-1904)
- The Horse in Motion, 1878
- When a horse is in full gallop does its legs leave the ground at the
same time – wanted to answer this question
- Took a series of photographs (12) and put it together and projected at
speed to create illusion of movement
- Scientific experiment in figuring out how to make moving images
- Showed the way that images could be put together for other scientists
TV Advertising and TV Schedules
- Advertising firms—the primary source of revenue for TV networks—
often shape what TV shows are conceptualized, produced, licensed
and watched by viewers
- Large corps pay TV networks to air advertisements for their goods
and services
- Networks schedule TV shows, organizing their transmission to
viewers into units of time over the course of day, week, or entire
season
- Viewers who watch TV without time-shifting devices or digital video
recorders are bound by TV network’s schedule
- Networks use schedules to attract, capture, sort and delivery an
audience to the ad firms that pay to advertise between TV shows
- TV schedule is where viewer demand for TV shows and advertising
demand for viewer attention converge
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Document Summary
Photographs appear in late 18th century (around 1930) recording the world. First to develop a camera able to project images on the wall. December of 1895 held first commercial exhibition of films to an audience in paris (produced a series of short films) Became an early model for film industry. Copied by major film industries in a few months, movies copied and sold in us for example. When a horse is in full gallop does its legs leave the ground at the same time wanted to answer this question. Took a series of photographs (12) and put it together and projected at speed to create illusion of movement. Scientific experiment in figuring out how to make moving images. Showed the way that images could be put together for other scientists. Advertising firms the primary source of revenue for tv networks often shape what tv shows are conceptualized, produced, licensed and watched by viewers.
