Motion Pictures During World Wars I and II
The American motion picture industry began making war movies soon after its first filmmakers stepped behind their cameras and yelled, "Action!"...
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Capturing Life Onscreen: the Invention of Motion Pictures
Overview
Motion pictures combined three earlier technologies. Early nineteenth-century experimenters knew how to make drawings appear to move,...
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Motion Picture
The science of photography gave birth to modern motion pictures. This was not, however, a rapid process. The motion pictures we know today are the result of a long evolution of arts and...
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Male Domination of the
Hollywood Screen
On every Hollywood front, and for nearly every major screen talent, the 1960s proved to be far more agreeable to male actors. In particular, the years from 1967...
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The Postwar Motion
Picture Industry
After the shooting stops..., Hollywood naturally will go back to the business of making films strictly for profit. But it will also do something else. Now that Holl...
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The Motion Picture Industry in 1940 1941
Prologue: January 1940
The American cinema in early 1940 was a study in paradox, with Hollywood in the full flowering of its "golden age" while the industry fo...
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The Motion Picture Industry
During World War II
World War II was the best of times and the worst of times for the American film industry. It was a period of challenge and change, of anxiety and accomp...
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The issue whether film industry is destroying culture and tradition is at present a matter of considerable controversy. It is often suggested that the global monoculture dominated by Western values ...
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Modes of entertainment have undergone a revolutionary change. Today the most popular form recreation is cinema. Its phenomenal popularity and development is due to its mass appeal. A motion picture ba...
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The drastic decline of moviegoers is a major concern for the film industry. It's quite shocking that so few people watch movies in theaters anymore. To put it in perspective, Jay Epstein mentioned th...
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Motion Pictures During World Wars I and II
Capturing Life Onscreen: the Invention of Motion Pictures
Motion Picture
Male Domination of the
The Motion Picture Industry
