FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Movie Palace, Sound Design, List Of Industrial Processes
25 Apr 2015
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Lecture 1: film 2401 film, television and american society. Factors that influenced the formation of movies in the 1980s. The social context industrialization urbanization and the need for cheap entertainment for the large new working class. An industrial process of art - the precursor to film began with still images strung together. The first 10 to 15 years of the movie exhibition industry was characterized by working class patronage. Arrival of immigrants from south and eastern europe: the universal language of the silent film. For the first few years films were a novelty and some films were sold by the foot. These films were often found at amusement parks, vaudeville theatres, traveling film projectionists going from town to town. Empty store fronts [nickelodeons]: literally an old store front or abandoned stores. 1907 narative film becomes the dominate form in the us.
