History of film Summary

Full-Length Programs:Fights, Passion Plays, and Travel In the post-novelty period, exhibitors played a key creative role in the motion picture field. Their claims to authorship were indeed often merit... Read more

Introduction: A Decade of Change If, as Joan Didion has written, the deal is the true art form of Hollywood, the masters of this art are the tax shelter specialists. MARIE BRENNER, JOURNALIST, 1977 ... Read more

Motion Picture Exhibition in 1970s America On the surface, the exhibition side of the movie industry seemed stable during the 1970s. While the major Hollywood studios struggled to redefine themselves... Read more

Outside the Mainstream Sound opened new possibilities for bringing previously unheard voices and languages to Hollywood. The precursor was definitely radio, which was broadcasting regional songs (for ... Read more

Sound and Music The Historical Primacy of Dialogue Sound The coming of synchronous sound to the motion pictures in 1927 with THE JAZZ SINGER introduced a new aesthetic based on the relationship of the... Read more

The Transition to Story Films: 1903 1904 The American film industry was entering a new phase of rapid expansion by mid-to-late 1903, and a key factor in this revival was the popularity of story films.... Read more

Three Seasons: The Films of 1928-1931 If a revolution is a sudden event which throws over the past regime and substitutes a new oppositional rule, then the conversion to sound was certainly no revolut... Read more