FILM 1701 Study Guide - Motion Picture Production Code, Photoplay, Magnetic Storage
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Film history timeline [you are not responsible for information in brackets] Lumi re brothers: workers leaving the factory; arrival of a train at a station; the hoser. Porter: the great train robbery; life of an american fireman; uncle tom"s cabin. 1,000 nickelodeons in us average film length: 10 min. Star system begins as performers get screen credit first newsreels, france. M li s: conquest of the pole daily film admissions: 5 million viewers majority of film production shifts to la (hollywoodland) from east coast. France"s path most powerful film company in world first movie palace, the strand theater opens, nyc. United artists (distribution) formed: chaplin, griffith, fairbanks, pickford. Kuleshov begins montage experiments in workshop in moscow rise of alternative cinema network and cin -clubs in france. Flaherty: nanook of the north (early feature documentary) [eliot: the waste land ] beginnings of surrealist movement rise of fascism, italy: mussolini.
