2.  Grade Trivia  Best/Worst Films  AFI Top 100 and Best Picture Winners of Last 10 years  History of Film

3.  Write down anything you notice from an analytical perspective – How do the filmmakers use techniques to tell a story?

4.  1861 – Coleman Sellers patents the Kinematoscope – projects photos by flashing them rapidly on screen.  1890s – Thomas Alva Edison puts up a shack (“The Black Maria”) that becomes the world’s first movie studio 

5.  1895 - French Lumiere Brothers introduce cinematographe (printer, camera, projector) and organize first public performance of motion pictures  Example: The Sprinkler Sprinkled) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVj 7kezK98&noredirect=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVj 7kezK98&noredirect=1 › Prepare to be amazed…!

6.  1903 – Edwin Porter produced first major American film, The Great Train Robbery.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7 wWOmEGGY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7 wWOmEGGY › Let’s watch a clip  First film to have a beginning, middle and end (progression from movies about sneezes and train arrivals)

7.  To tell stories to a mass audience

8.  Focus on realism, action, compelling plots  The Birth of a Nation – 1915 – D.W. Griffith – controversial Civil War film that pulled filmmaking together as an art form (close-ups, long shots, alternating close- ups, etc.)

9.  Move to The Hills (Hollywood, LA)  50% of films produced world-wide came from here in 1914  Studios set up by independent producers  system

10.  1919 – United Artists Corporation and star › Producers and distributers tightening salaries and creativity of stars. › So the film stars formed their own company to control their work and their futures. › Founders:  Mary Pickford  Charles Chaplin  Douglas Fairbanks  D.W.Griffith

11.  Stars over film  1926, 1927 - “Talkies” – Films with sound  Changed visual expression SO much that some directors were hesitant to use sound  The Jazz Singer – first feature-length “talkie”  1920s also brought color – The Black Pirate, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz.

12.  First movie star…any guesses?

14. Judy Garland Marilyn Monroe Mary Pickford

15.  Large studios failed – too much $$$  1930s and 1940s – desire to attract MASS audience › Bland films › NOTHING objectionable  1950s – Communist paranoia invades Hollywood › Black lists › Witch hunts

16.  TV a major rival – Americans can be entertained without leaving home  To compete – films turn to sex and violence – topics banned from TV  The Birds and A Streetcar Named Desire had more adult themes  TV Movies of the Week – film industry realizes they can use TV for $  Film begins marketing TV; TV buys previously released movies

17.  Counter culture reflects in movies  VCR  Cable TV and HBO  Celebrity magazines  Theater chains  Younger audiences

18.  First Blockbuster Video, Netflix, On Demand  DVDS  Pixar creates first short film – big step for animation  HUGE mergers (Sony buys Columbia and Tri- Star, Warner merges with Time, Disney buys Miramax, Turner merges with New Line)  Dolby Stereo Digital Sound  IMAX  HDTV  Illegal downloading

19.  Monday, you’ll start learning about mise en scene, a VERY important film concept, and we’ll watch a Tim Burton film in mid-December.