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

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?

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

Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week FACTS 1900-1919 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 Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week Divorce:  1/1,000 Vacation:  12 day cruise  $60 Whiskey $3.50 / gallon, Milk $.32 / gallon

Who made the first movie??

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.

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

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

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

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