New Media Culture- A Brief History of Film Flashcards
Thomas Edison develops the first motion picture camera
1888
Birth of a Nation is the first feature film in?
1915
The Jazz Singer is the first “Talkie”
1927
Peak of North American Box Office attendance- 90 million/week.
1946
Television competes, major studios have to divest their theatre chains in?
1948
movie ratings are introduced in?
1968
Jaws becomes the first modern blockbuster in?
1975
Star Wars revolutionizes special effects and film merchandizing in?
1977
Toy Story released, first major 100% Computer Animated feature film in?
1995
DVDs were introduced in?
1997
Netflix streams films over Internet in?
2007
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in? And by whom
1816 approx by Joseph Niépce
The ______________ Method was developed in 1836 was the first practical photography method.
Daguerreotype
the Kinetograph/Kinetoscope was First described in conceptual terms by who and in what year?
Thomas Edison, 1888
The first U.S. copyright for an identifiable motion picture was given to Edison for? And when?
Fred Ott’s Sneeze in 1894
Why did Edison abandon film in 1914?
a fire destroyed his research and development labs
the cinematograph was made by which 2 french siblings and in what year?
August and Louis Lumière in 1894
When did the Lumière brothers start making films?
1892
The cinématographe itself was patented on?
13 February, 1895
on March 19, 1895, what was the first footage filmed?
Workers leaving the Lumière factory
The First Horror Film was
“The devil’s castle” by Georges Méliès in 1896
Méliès also produced the first science fiction movie, what was it called amd when was it made?
Le Voyage dans la lune (Voyage to the Moon) in 1902
The (American) Golden Age of Silent film ran from?
1903- 1927
The First Major Movie Star of North American cinema was?
Canadian, Mary Pickford (aka Gladys Marie Smith)
The Movie Industry restarted itself in Hollywood because?
it was far away from Edison and his men, and because it was close to the border so they could escape to Mexico if needed
The First Feature Film was?
D.W Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915
Birth of a Nation was also important because it featured the first:
Outdoor battle scenes. Close-ups Cuts between simultaneous sequences of action
Many states banned the film because?
for fear it would incite violence, and it was one of the first cases of American film censorship
was established when and what did it do?
1930 and forbade scenes that protrayed “crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin” in a positive light
in the post-War years, only the United States was really in a position to produce films at a large scale anymore because of what event?
WWII, everyone else was decimated by the war (England, France, Brazil, Japan, China and India)
A “B Movie” is what? And where did the term come from?
the old theatre days when the theatres were always rotating two films- An “A Movie” and “B Movie”. The “A Movie” would be the one with the big stars and production values. The “B Movie” would be a cheap genre film (mystery, suspense, romance, comedy, action, Western, etc) with semi-unknown stars and a quality level much lower than that of the “A Movie”.
In 1946, what happened in America (Film wise)
American movie-going reaching a peak of 90 million audience members a week
What did The Great Depression of the 1930’s do to most of the smaller movie producers and over 5000 independent movie theatres?
Killed them off
Many of them were bought by the Big Five which are:
Paramount Loews/MGM Warner Brothers 20th Century Fox RKO
