HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sound Film, Poverty Row, Mob Film
3 Feb 2015
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The jazz singer first sound film released by warner brothers. Musicians no longer needed for movies due to sound. Resulted in getting jobs in an orchestra (bad time to be a musician) Demand for writers, novelists and journalists to work as screen writers (dialogue) Leads to a stabilizing to the film industry with 5 companies dominating. The big five: warner brothers, metro-goldwyn-mayer, paramount, radio-keith-orpheum (1928, 20th century-fox (1935, vertical integrated- has control off all aspects that it took to make all aspects of the movie. Couldn"t make enough movies to satisfy the people. The little three: united artists, columbia, universal. These companies were not vertically integrated but were in charge of the distribution. Monogram (1930)- westerns, bowery boys, charlie chaplin. Roles to produce movies to fill the spots for demand for the amount of movies. Idea of having a family finance through their wealth will not become successful as the capital it takes to create a film is increasing substantially.
