FS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Florence Lawrence, Biograph Girl, Vitagraph Studios
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1905-15 : nickelodeons wooden chairs, piano wouldn"t buy a ticket for a particular show, shorts would play on loop. As the film industry grew the movies became longer and longer. Audiences started to change to middle class and lower class. Fandom and stardom started evolve into a thing. Appeal was that it was bigger and louder them the home television. From describing new technogly to promoting actors as stars. Studio would not release her name calling her biograph girl: in 1090, hired by producer carl laemmls ineptness moving pictures. Carl used florence as a way to build his is company in la, pulled the stunt of her death to get audiences to come see his new movie. Audiences spontaneously wrote in tp studies wanting to know start names. they has pre existing desire for film stars that studios simply fulfilled.
