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Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture 1. Major Labels 2. Royalties 3. Radio Numbers 4 GEO 101 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture 1. Major Labels 2. Royalties 3. Radio Numbers 4. Brief History 5. Rise of networks 6. Regulation 7. Golden Age of Radio 8. Reacting to TV: 3 Keys 9. Dayparts 10. Concentration and Fragmentation 11. Early Movie Technology 12. The Movie West Outline of Current Lecture 1. The Star System 2. The Golden Age 3. Global Dimensions 4. Production 5. The People in the Credits 6. Distribution 7. Domestic Theatrical 8. Exhibition Current Lecture Chapter 8: Movies Persistence and vision Early movie technology Motion picture petents company (trust) The move west These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. The Star System TEST Audiences demand popular actors; studios put actors under contract Theatres demand actors; studios see power Put actors under contract and promo Block booking: force independent threatres to show movies with no stars to get movies with establishesd starsTEST Blind booking: Force independent theatres to reserve movies without previewing them (hit independents) TEST United Artists 1919: distribute films: Charlie Chaplin, mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino Global Influence of Film Art German Expressionism: Dark style, pessimistic: Psycho (1960) Soviet Social Realism: Focus on masses, violence: Bonnie and Clyde (1968); Saving Private Ryan (1998) French Surrealism: Reject social standards of taste and acceptability; brutal images: Matriz (1999) Italian neorealism: End of WWII, Social problems: Training Day (2001), Kill Bill (2003) French New Wave: Autur: Director’s distinctive style The Golden Age: 1930-1950 1946: 90 million a week (75% of the population); today 20 million (7.5%) TEST Weekly ritual, double feature, newsreels, cartoons, door prize Sound: 1927: enough theaters with equipment Newsreels: film clips on current events with sound Jazz Singer Al Jolson: establish technology and popularity of sound; 354 spoken words, mostly silent film Color: 1939: Perfected in Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz, both in 1939 Special Effects: King Kong (1933) and The Invisible Man (1933) Movie going is part of American Culture o Little Caesar (1930), Edward G. Robinson, organized crime in prohibition o Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi, Frankenstein 1931, Boris Karloff, Horror o Duck Soup (1933), Marx Brothers, Comedy Africa-American Films TEST Separate film industry: Harlem, NY City TEST Oscar Micheaux: produced, directed, and distributed 46 movies Paul Robeson: moved to Europe Sidney Poitier: First black mainstream star, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) Courts force end of star system: 1948 Paramount Decision, monopoly ended; ban blind and block booking; studios can’t own theatres (change in 1980 under Reagan); TV COMING.
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