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