cinema, espe

1. Jaqueline Recalde

2. We have two options about the beginning of the cinema:
 Parkinson describes cinema as the most modern,
technologically dependent, and Western of all the arts.
 Cinema began in 1895, with the demonstration of an
invention by two French brothers, the Lumières, of a
machine that could both “capture” and project moving
pictures.

3.  Cinema is one of the most successful optical illusions
of all time.
 An early form of slide show ,
was the Magic lantern shows ,
where images were painted on pieces of glass.
 Others sophisticated effects were special effects such
as smoke and multiple images.

4.  A camera can record and a big dark
room with a hole in it cannot.
It a difference between a
camera obscura and a camera.
 Etienne Jules Marey developed a “photogun,” the fusil
photographique, which recorded 12 pictures per
second on a revolving plate.

5.  British films were being shot and shown both at home
and abroad.
 The early American cinema was dominated by French
productions.
 The film grammar, began to be developed during the
early days of cinema.

6.  German cinema started somewhat more slowly than
most of its European neighbors.
 The Japanese film industry also began very soon after
film’s introduction into the country in 1897.
 The early French cinema, the first Japanese films were
in essence filmed plays that followed the
characteristics of Japanese theatre traditions

7.  Nickelodeon's moved cinema into converted shops,
often rundown and in seedy neighborhoods.
 The late 1920s, cinema had become an established
entertainment medium.

8.  By the late 1920s and early 1930s, most of the key
elements of cinema were in place.
 One element still missing was sound.
 Sound effect machines were relatively common, at
least in the USA, from 1910 onwards.

9.  Sound may had saved Hollywood during the
Depression of the 1930s.
 Early sound technology was limited and thus limited
the filmmakers in using it.
 The introduction of sound that turned movies from a
multi media show with live performance to a complete
show in themselves

10.  The distinct advantage of the studio system was that
Universal, or any of the other major studios, had a
number of talented individuals that could be put on
any project, whatever the inherent “value” of that
project might have been.
 Certainly in terms of quantity and quality the studio
system achieved remarkable productivity.

11.  The Golden Ages for different countries were different,
the period from the 1940s to the 1960s was a vibrant
period for most cinema industries.
 American demographic changes, such as the growth of
suburbs, led to a decline in audiences.
 While American cinema was struggling with change,
European cinemas were flourishing

12.  French New Wave and British social realist films gave
way to new cinema trends.
 The collapse of the studio system forced American
cinema to retrench.
 Successes by the New Hollywood directors led each of
them in turn to make more and more extravagant
demands, becoming a financial disaster.

13.  The results were just as devastating for United Artists
as the studio was nearly bankrupted by the film and
this ultimately led to the sale of the studio.
 In 1975, a film about a shark (Spielberg’s Jaws)
changed the cinema industry in ways felt to the
present day