COMM 100S Lecture Notes - Jerky, Florence Lawrence
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In the early years of movies, they did not have music. There was a band to accompany the movie. 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 rise and fall of the hollywood studio systems: the very early film industry. 1895-1915: the characteristics of the film industries included the films were very visual and without words, film was also location based. People were able to take newspapers and magazines home, but the movie you couldn"t. So the theater was built in the cities: one of the first areas was nyc. The exhibition factor was focused in the cities: the audience for the theaters was unique. For magazines and newspapers, you needed to know how to read english, this was mainly the rich.
