COMM 100 Lecture Notes - Jerky, Vertical Integration, Breitbart News
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To recap, the mppc did not want the actors to be known, so they did not have credits to show their names. After when nickelodeons were formed and made mppc die out, a star system was born. The star system was credit to show the credits for the actors in the films. Mary pickford was one of the first well-known actors. Now, the audience can associate the actors with genres. The timing of the movies was a bit off. There were no zoom ins and outs, making movies very short, only using on reel of film. There were no credits or billings before or after the movie: the majors and the minors. Warner bros, mgm, 20th century fox, paramount, and rko were the biggest studios at the start, so they were called the majors . They were the early film industries that moved to ca early, bought a lot of new land and started to film.
