20TH CENT. CULTURE CHAPTER 32
movies/t.v. Today?
Movie camera 1903, Great Train Robbery 8 min., outdoors Editing “motion picture?
t. edison Cameras, projectors “trust”
l.a. Hollywood Mexico Natural light Weather
??? Industry = growth L.A.
Nickelodeons 5 cents
film Lower class Owners: lower class, immigrants Short
Gradually beyond lower class Mainstream
Movie houses 1920’s Large, designs Ushers
dominance Few
1927, talkies 1941, more movie houses then Banks 1920’s-1940’s: 70% weekly
Stars Mary Pickford Lupe Velez
Controversial Movie D.W. Griffith “Birth of a Nation”
Charles Chaplin Rudolph Valentino
Star fantasy “Discovered” Follow stars lives, see them