My Mass Media Film Medium Presentation

1. Film’s humble begins & a dancing
legacy that lives on today
By: Gianna Jackson

2. The Kinetoscope
The idea was patented
hat we today know or by Thomas A. Edison
in 1888 but the actual
understand as ‘film’ first device was invented by
sprung up in the very late 19th Edison’s assistant W.
K.L. Dickson in 1894
century with the Kinetoscope
along with the
which was used to view Kinetograph Camera
captured footage. which was used to
shoot the footage.

3. The Kinetoscope Parlors
As soon as the Kinetoscopes
went into mass production
Kinetoscope Parlors were
developed which allow one
person at a time to peep through
the top of the machine to view
the short films inside. This is
where the concept of the ‘peep
show’ first started. But it wasn’t
free each viewer had to pay a
quarter to watch for five
minutes.

4. The Nickelodeon
oon it was clear that the ‘peep
shows’ would not be enough to
satisfy the needs or demand of the
growing popularity of film or
society’s growing interest in them.
What they needed was to project
these films so more people could
view them at once. More people
meant the opportunity to make more
money. This growing idea gave
birth to the Nickelodeon theater.

5. he first nickelodeon theater started in Pittsburg in 1905. The concept
of these nickelodeon theaters was to allow people to watch films for
only 5 cents each. The early films shown in these Nickelodeon
theaters were scenes from real life, like people working, or people in a
park.

6.  It took only about a year for over 2,000 nickelodeons
to come into business. Most of these make shift
theaters where sectioned off corners of restaurants,
convent stores, and penny arcades, some where even
dance halls made up to look like theaters as people set
up wooden chairs and draped screens and white
sheets up on the walls for the projections.

7.  In the early 20th century the audience
began getting bored with the everyday
real life films that were being released
which sparked the creation for
melodrama, comedies, action and
western films starting with a film from
1903 called the Great Train Robbery
which was eight minutes long.
 More melodrama comedic action and
western films followed but none like
The Jazz Singer released in 1927 that
added such a fundamental aspect to the
way we view films today, which is
sound.

8. Films with sound in the dawn of the
depression
“From ganster films to
musicals to screwball
comedies, Depression
films took on the
responsibility of
reinstating the mythical
American values of
individualism,
classlessness, and
progress….”

9. Films with sound in the dawn of the
depression
efore The Jazz Singer, released from Warner Brothers, movies were silent
and when seen were accompanied by a piano or orchestra. It was the first
feature film to introduced synchronized dialogue and sound to movie
lovers. It helped to pave the way not only for the dramatic and action
films that had already started in the silent era but for musicals and movies
that now had positive uplifting messages for a society going into the Great
Depression the new genre was a much welcome escape from reality as film
always were. But by now the price to see a movie had risen to 15 cents,
and in some places it was 27 cents.

10. Some of the favorites

11.  The television system had been in
the making for several years before
1948 when television sets and cable
systems made their way into family
homes.
 And soon variety entertainment
and comedy shows began to grab
the attention of America with
shows like the Ed Sullivan show in
1948 and the Texaco Star Theater
with Milton Berle which came out
the same year.

12. he medium popularity quickly grew because of the appealing idea that
people didn’t have to leave their homes for entertainment and music
like Ed Sullivan show & the Texaco Star Theater show provided and as
did the television shows and comedy hours that were to follow.
ike most mediums, the film industry began to merge with Television
in the mid 1950s when films began being broadcasted on T.V.

13. And Of course there was Lucy & Desi
In the
presence of
these two
clips I will
let the
comedy
speak for
it’s self.

14. Two Birds with one Stone
In this clip you will
see Jerry Lewis
impersonating Ed
Sullivan on his and
Dean Martin’s TV
show The Colgate
Hour. You will also
notice that during
the skit there are a
few celebrities in the
audience as well.

15. Film lives on!!
hile the thrill of watching comedies and musical performances on your
television set right in your living room did effect the film industry,
television did not completely replace or take over society’s draw to the
theater or a driven theater to see a film.
ilm productions were not only taking place in America but around the
world in Paris, Germany, Russia and London. Today movies are
produced in nearly every country in the world.

19. Dirty Dancing’s Legacy
continued….

20. Film’s future
oday all films are created digitally and those that aren’t are converted or
transferred over to digital format. We stream movies to Roku boxes, Xboxes, to
T.V.’s, our computer and to our cell phones.
treaming I think may even replace Blu-ray which has begun replacing regular
DVDs. In the future there may only be streaming to TVs and to Cellphones
altogether. In stead of going out to the theater people may want to stay in with
the family and watch new releases of films right in their own home and avoid
any lines or crowds.
here is a new and popular market growing when it comes to streaming and
having the latest movies available on demand and I see it affected film’s future in
the theaters, yes, but the demand for movies.

21. What do you think??
s Film’s home in the theater’s moving into our home?

22. The Gold Rush (1924)
below is from the re-
released version from 1942
with Charlie’s narration
Vivacious Lady (1938)

23. Bringing up Baby
(1938)
& The Wizard Of Oz
(1939)