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Edward R. Murrow and his television news show See It Now (1951-1958) took a different approach to television news compared to previous documentary filmmakers. Murrow was not interested in objective analysis but rather focused on highlighting problems in society. The production of See It Now was chaotic, with film shot and rushed to New York for editing. Segments were assigned to staff who edited around the clock. Despite positive viewer response and letters of support for Murrow's reporting, the show lost corporate sponsorship from Alcoa at the end of 1954-1955 due to lack of support from CBS president Paley. This led to the end of See It Now.
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This document discusses the development of Soviet silent cinema and the theory of montage between 1917-1931. It introduces the Kuleshov technique using juxtaposition to create abstract meanings. It then covers Eisenstein's theories of intellectual montage and montage of attractions to shock audiences into political commitment. The Bolsheviks saw art as reflecting dialectical materialism and the montage technique was aimed to incorporate this dialectic. The Russian Revolution in 1917 led to the establishment of a communist state committed to radically restructuring society and culture, including cinema which was seen as an important art form for propaganda. The film Strike from 1925 is analyzed as an example that engages the audience through montage rather than individual acting.
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German Expressionist films of the 1920s sought to portray disturbed psychological states through exaggerated and distorted visuals meant to create an unsettling mood, or Stimmung. Key characteristics included angular compositions, stark contrasts between light and shadow, and stylized acting. While very innovative technically, these films struggled financially due to a small German market and mixed reception overseas. Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis exemplified Expressionist styles through its futuristic yet Gothic set designs and used exaggerated performances to represent the class divide between workers and owners in a dystopian industrial city. Scholars debate whether the film presented socialist or fascist ideals through its themes of technological control and narratives of malevolent rulers.
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D.W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director who helped develop early narrative film techniques between 1908-1913 while working with American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Some of his innovations included close-ups, cutbacks, cross-cutting, parallel editing, and developing interframe narrative through breaking scenes into multiple shots. His 1915 film Birth of a Nation was groundbreaking technically but also promoted racist ideologies through its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan and portrayal of black men as sexually threatening. While innovative cinematically, the film reflected and helped spread dangerous American myths about race through its narrative and perspective.
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1) Early cinema between 1893-1903 saw technological advances in capturing and projecting films, including the development of celluloid film and intermittent motion cameras.
2) Notable early filmmakers and their works included the Edison Studios (first public film screening in 1893), the Lumière brothers (first films shot outdoors on location in 1895), and Georges Méliès (used special effects and narrative films starting in 1902).
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