Cinema HistoryThe Wizard and The Southern Gentleman

Edward Bowen

Introduction to Motion Pictures

History of Motion PicturesThomas Edison, "The Wizard of Menlo Park,” inventor of the electric light, the phonograph, and the movies.

True of False?

History of Motion PicturesThomas Edison - The Films (1891 – 1918)

http://youtu.be/jBoyzwLBXpU Edison.mov

History of Motion Pictures“The Sneeze” (1894) Edison

About 5 Seconds

http://youtu.be/2wnOpDWSbyw

History of Motion PicturesL'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) Lumiere

About 1 minute

http://youtu.be/b9MoAQJFn_8

History of Motion Pictures“The Kiss” or “May Irwin Kiss” (1896) Edison

About 20 seconds

http://youtu.be/Q690-IexNB4

History of Motion Pictures“Santa Claus” (1898) George Albert Smith

About 1.5 minutes

http://youtu.be/bmSJ5SAXHws

History of Motion PicturesHistoire d'un crime (1901) Ferdinand Zecca

Around 5 minutes

 

http://youtu.be/4fzObxlvOC8

History of Motion Pictures Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) Georges MeliesAround 15 minutes

http://youtu.be/iTEODB_s87M

History of Motion Pictures“The Life of an American Fireman” (1903) William S.

Porter / Edison About 6 minutes

http://youtu.be/nyjceskGZIc

History of Motion Pictures“The Great Train Robbery” (1903) William S. Porter /

Edison About 12 minutes

http://youtu.be/Bc7wWOmEGGY

History of Motion Pictures“Rescued by Rover” (1905) Cecil HepworthAround 6 minutes

http://youtu.be/QzygbgYCa5U

History of Motion Pictures“The Story of the Kelly Gang” (1906) Charles Tait 70 minutes

http://youtu.be/ExG5iY8QgaQ

History of Motion Pictures1908 – Edison founds and heads the Motion Picture Patents Company, known as “the Trust.” By 1910 the Trust controls half of all U.S. theaters.•D.W. Griffith directs his first film, “The Adventures of Dolly,” for American Mutoscope and Biograph.

History of Motion PicturesFrom 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.

7:12 http://youtu.be/lO75AXdZ3IE

History of Motion Pictures1910 – D.W. Griffith starts traveling to Los Angeles to shoot films, following a trend that began in 1907.

History of Motion PicturesFrom 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.

History of Motion Pictures

From 1908 to 1915, D.W. Griffith advances the art and technique of dramatic storytelling in film more than any other filmmaker.

5:30 http://youtu.be/GDxRWtaNYRc

History of Motion PicturesWomen in early cinema.

5:15 http://youtu.be/Ip24wEq1fzE

History of Motion Pictures1910 - 26 million people are going to the movies a year – roughly a quarter of the population.

1914 – Nearly every city in American with a population of more than 4,000 has a movie theater.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.•Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.•Sykes-Picot Agreement: The governments of Britain and France secretly agree to overtake the Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq), and establish their own zones of influence.

History of Motion Pictures1915•The United States has yet to enter World War I.•The U.S. House of Representatives denies women the right to vote.•The Lincoln Memorial begins construction.•Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.•Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.•Sykes-Picot Agreement: The governments of Britain and France secretly agree to overtake the Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq), and establish their own zones of influence.•1915 - The U.S. Department of Justice declares the Edison trust an illegal monopoly and breaks it up.

History of Motion Pictures1915•50th Anniversary of the End of the Civil War

History of Motion Pictures1915•The Romance of the South

History of Motion Pictures1915•50th Anniversary of the Passage of the 13th Amendment

History of Motion PicturesFebruary 8, 1915

http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/Nickeledeon Birth Premiere.mov

History of Motion Pictures

“The Birth of a Nation”

27:54 https://www.fandor.com/films/dw_griffith_father_of_film

History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”

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History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”

http://youtu.be/YeTeYGRWpvU

History of Motion Pictures“The Birth of a Nation”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVognai5P4

History of Motion Pictures1915•The Ku Klux Klan is reborn•At it’s peak in the 1920s, membership exceeded 4 million

http://youtu.be/5u1QARlCph0 1928

History of Motion Pictures1915•Growth in membership of NAACP•1909 – Three hundred•1917 – Nine thousand•1919 – Ninety thousand

http://youtu.be/5u1QARlCph0 1928

History of Motion Pictures1865•The Passage of the 13th Amendment

History of Motion Pictures1898•The Wilmington Insurrection•Racial Segregation and Disenfranchisement•White Supremacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 1928

History of Motion Pictures1910-1930 The Great Migration

1.6 million moved from rural areas in the south to Northern and Midwestern industrial cities.

History of Motion Pictures1915 “The Birth of A Nation”

Exporting racism?

History of Motion Pictures1916•Congress holds hearing on the possible federal censorship of content in movies; nothing is decided. •There are approximately 21,000 movie theaters in the United States with an average seating capacity of 500.•“Easy Street” Charlie Chaplin

http://youtu.be/eyxMc1mG5Ns

History of Motion Pictures1919 – Oscar Michaeux produces his first motion pictures, “The Homesteader” and “Within Our Gates.

History of Motion Pictures1919 – Oscar Michaeux produces his first motion pictures, “The Homesteader” and “Within Our Gates.

“Midnight Ramble” (1994)

History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Chicago, “Flying Ace” Slapstick

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History of Motion Pictures• 1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)• Lynching, “The Birth of a Nation” “By Right of Birth”

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Nobel Johnson

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Oscar Micheaux “The Homesteader”

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Oscar Micheaux, Controversial Subject Matter

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

“Within Our Gates”

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Theaters, Quality

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History of Motion Pictures1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)

Quality

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History of Motion Pictures• 1919 – Midnight Ramble” (1994)• “Body and Soul” Paul Robeson

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