04:189:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Star System, Block Booking, Hannibal Goodwin

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Alptug

Document Summary

When studying technology, you must also look at its content, form, uses, and institutions. 5 essential steps for creating a motion picture. Transformation of the studio system (after mid-1940s) Five essential steps for creating a motion picture. Edison and the lumieres helps to create the motion. Edison opts for silent, individual showings of lms. Machine shot the pictures, printed them, and projected them. The camera was portable, a hand crank provided power. Only viewed by one person at a time. There was no story in lm to grasp your attention yet. The great train robbery (1903) was the rst lm with an actual narrative- The cheap price persuaded people to go and see movies. They were usually very noisy and busy because everyone attended. People were accustomed to vaudeville theaters, not the projectors. Production: similar to assembly line production, every one does something (stars, directors, editors, writers) Distribution: block booking (packaing movie with stars with lower quality movies with non-stars)