2. Start of Hollywood
The cinema of the United States, often generally
referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound
effect on cinema across the world since the early
20th century. It’s history is sometimes separated
into into four main periods The Silent Film Era,
Classical Hollywood Cinema, New Hollywood, and
The Contemporary Period. While the French
Lumiere Brothers are generally credited with the
birth of modern, it is American cinema that soon
became the most dominant force in an emerging
industry. Since the 1920’s, the American film
industry has grossed more money every year than
that of any other country.
3. The Silent Movie
EraA silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound,
especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment
the dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is
transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards. The idea
of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as
film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved,
synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with
the perfection of the audion amplifier tube.
The first projected primary proto-movie was made by Eawaerd
Muybridge sometimes between 1877 and 1880. The oldest surviving
film (of the genera called pictorial realism) was created by Louis Le
Prince in 1888. It was a two-second film of people walking in
‘Oakwood streets’ garden, entitled’ Roundhay Garden Scene’. The art
of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the ‘silent era’ (1894-
1929) before silent films were replaced by ‘taking pictures’ in the late
1920s. Many film scholars and buffs argue that the aesthetic quality
of cinema decreased for several years until directors, actors and
production staff adapted to the new ‘talkies’.
4. Example of a silent
film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0IU8uQniX8
5. Classical
Hollywood Cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical
Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history
which designate both visual and sound style for
making motion pictures and mode of production used
in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963.
This period is often referred to as the ‘golden age of
Hollywood’. An identifiable cinematic form emerged
during this period called classical Hollywood style.
Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle
of continuity editing or ‘invisible’ style. That is, the
camera and the sound recording should never call
attention to themselves (as they might in films from
earlier periods, other countries or in a modernist or
postmodernist work).
7. New Hollywood
New Holly wood or post- classical Hollywood, sometimes
referred to as the ‘American New Wave’ refers to the time
from roughly the late-1960s (Bonnie and Clyde, The
Graduate) to the early 1980s (Heaven’s Gate, One from
the Heart) when a new generation of young filmmakers
came to prominence in America, influencing the types of
films produced, their production and marketing, and the
way major studios approached filmmaking. In New
Hollywood films, the film director took on a key authorial
role.
The films they made were part of the studio system, and
although these individuals were not ‘independent
filmmakers’, they introduced subject matter and styles that
set them apart from the studio traditions that an earlier
generation had established in the the 1920s-1950s. New
Hollywood has also been defined as a broader filmmaking
movement influenced by this period, which has been called
the ‘Hollywood renaissance’.
8. Example of New
Hollywood film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X2DtiE7VLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jE7-6Uv7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYAETtIIClk
9. The Contemporary
PeriodIn the 1970s and 1980s, multinational corporations
bought and merged many movie studios, ending the
period of artistic experimentation in Hollywood. The
industry has returned to financial success and global
dominance through the development of blockbuster
franchises, large-scale marketing campaigns, and
content aimed at children. It also has placed
increasing emphasis on spectacular special effects
in order to draw audiences into movie theaters. The
emergence of affordable digital video cameras and
the growth of the film festival circuit have expanded
the possibilities for independent filmmakers around
the world to produce, distribute, and exhibit films.
