1. (Turn of the 20th Century)
Today’s Topic:
The 1st Motion Pictures
(Turn of the 20th Century)

2. Pop Quiz 1.) Who is Pop Culture’s Daddy?
2.) Explain why this person can be called the Dad of Pop
Culture.
3.) How did the popularity of the car change
women’s fashion?
4.) Name 1 other car manufacture in existence during the
early 1900s.
5.) What is the definition of Pop Culture?

3. Turn of the century
people now had…
More Money!
More Free-Time!

4. Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week
FACTS
Population:  92,407,000
Life:  Male 48.4   Female: 51.8
Average Salary  $750 / year
Unemployed 2,150,000
Union Membership: 2.1 million
Strikes 1,204
Movies 30 million per week
Divorce:  1/1,000
Vacation:  12 day cruise  $60
Whiskey $3.50 / gallon,
Milk $.32 / gallon

5. Who made the
first
movie??

6. Early Films…Let’s Watch
The First Motion Picture Ever Made? The Horse In Motion (1878) Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a motion picture.
Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford (California governor/ Stanford University) to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era - are all four of a horse's hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? Muybridge's time-motion photography proved they indeed were, and the idea of motion photography was born. You can watch the 16-frame footage of a horse galloping by clicking HERE.

7. Early Films…Let’s Watch
Or was it… Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
Louis Le Prince

8. Early Films…Let’s Watch
But undeniably the first popular moving picture show was
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Edwin S. Porter

9. 1915:
$110,000 to make
Made $10 million
D.W. Griffith

10. Early Films…Let’s Watch
Or was it… Birth of a Nation (1915)
Silent drama film based on the novel and play The Clansman
Shows the relationship of two families in Civil War and Reconstruction-era America (pro-Union Northerners and pro-Confederacy Southerners)
Released on February 8, 1915 and presented in two parts, separated by an intermission
Film also shows the Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth
NAACP protested at premieres and riots broke out when film was shown
Basic message of the film:
Reconstruction was a disaster
Blacks could never be integrated into white society as equals
Violent actions of the KKK were justified in order to reestablish an honest government
Film also suggested that the KKK restored order to post-war South