CNPH 21400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lillian Gish, Republican National Committee, Ithaca, New York
13 Feb 2017
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Hollywood & american film mid-term exam study guide. Curve of adoption (industrial) | climate of acceptance (technological) Inventions that lead to the possibility of film: persistence of vision - peter roqet, photography in 1839 (daguerreotype, muybridge - movement record, kodak flexible roll film, motion picture projection. Birth of a nation: one of the top grossing films of all time. It blew the records out of the water when it was released. It was a film which had a very racist view of the nation and history, was originally titled the klansmen . The cheat: a 1915 american silent drama film directed by cecil b. demille, starring fannie. Ward, sessue hayakawa, and jack dean (1874-1950), ward"s real-life husband. Polyscope, lubin manufacturing, kalem company, star film paris, american path ). The company attempted to control the technology of the film industry as a way to enforce a monopoly. He brought in foreign feature films to america.
