[THTRFLM 3FF3] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (27 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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American film industry in the silent period10/4/2016 12:32:00 am: industrial trends, a. Director-system through the need to tell the story, the need to tell a story separates the task from the camera. Definition: a script that detailed every shot in the film. Producer approves the script before the shooting begins. Director system doesn"t disappear, just became less frequent after 1914. By 1920s every film in hollywood came to use this style of production: b. General films: in early 1910s, mixture of distribution company. General films all members of mppc. Independent producers set up their own distribution company. Famous players (company that tried to get actors from theatre to film) and. Jesse laskey: famous players-laskey company which owned. National exhibitors circuit: a distribution company and a film financing company, didn"t make films themselves, financed independent producers of films, in order to compete with zukor"s.
