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Notes
- Japanese films are the ‘classic films”
- Money doesn’t drive movies, ideas do
- Edison is one of the people who helped make film
- 2 brothers created the projector using the design of a sewing wheel
- The brothers created the first movie theater
- Film was originally for the working class and considered unsophisticated
- Cutting of film footage was accidentally discovered
- Close ups were created in 1900s
- Widescreen cinema started with the filming of a boxing match
- Editing was starting to be done in 1903 with cuts
- Florence Lawrence became the first movie star
- Small theaters called nickelodeons started in America
- Famous filmmakers from Europe moved to Hollywood
- Hollywood was a place where artists, especially film makers all came to in order to escape copyright of the projector wheel
- First studio built in Hollywood in 1911
- Around this time cinematography started to be seriously considered and worked with.
- Film was started mostly by woman, immigrants, and Jews
- Before 1995 most films were written primarily by woman
- W.D Griffith used his films to promote racism