Alfred Hitchcock argues that the length of a film should be related to the length of time a human bladder can endure without needing to use the restroom, implying films should not be so long that viewers are uncomfortable. The quote is suggesting filmmakers consider human physical limitations like bladder capacity when determining the runtime of their movies.

1. “The length of a film should be directly related to the
endurance of the human bladder.”
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899–1980, Director, Producer, Author

2. Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR

3.  http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=XuT_ENqRh_
o&feature=youtu.be

4. http://www.afi.com/100Years/movies10.aspx

5. http://www.afi.com/100Years/movies10.aspx

7. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ns0r69/citizen-kane-trailer

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r0b_XeRkG4

9. Orson Welles became famous after a radio broadcast of "War of
the Worlds”
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80676975/

10. Capture Our Imagination

12.  1840s: Telegraph
 1850s: Martinville/Sound Recording
 1877: Edison’s Phonograph
 1889: Celluloid Film
 1891: Edison’s Kinetoscope/Graph
 1894: Wireless Telegraph (Marconi)
 Very Exciting Era For Media Technology

13. Gelatin-Bromide Photo Process
Animation guru

14.  How do you make
images MOVE???
 Flip book
 Eadweard
Muybridge: pioneer:
700 cameras -trotting
horse
 http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=UrRUDS1xbNs

15.  1888, Edison met Eadweard
Muybridge viewed
zoopraxiscope.
 1913, Edison experimented
with synchronizing sound to
film.
 A Kinetophone was
developed by his laboratory
which synchronized sound on
a phonograph cylinder to the
picture on a screen.
 Believed that movies would
be a medium of expression for
fictional works.

18. • Nickelodeons:
storefront theatres in
early 1900s.
Nickel + Odeon
=
Nickelodeon

19. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zURTEs8C1lo

20.  Scottish inventor who
devised an early motion
picture camera under the
employment of Thomas
Edison
 Invented the first
practical celluloid film
and decided on 35 mm
for the size, a standard
still used.

21.  1894
 Fred Ott’s Sneeze was the
first motion picture to be
preserved in the
collection of the Library
of Congress.

22.  Credited to be first
filmmakers in history
 Thought that movies
would be shown to
audiences and reserved
for documentary works.

23.  Patented the
cinematograph, which
contrary to Edison's
"peepshow" kinetoscope,
allowed viewing by
multiple parties at once
 Their first film, Sortie de
l'usine Lumière de Lyon,
shot in 1894, is
considered the first real
motion picture in history

24.  1896, Lumières
demonstrated
their
cinematograph --
the first
successful
machine that
could show
moving
photographs -- to
an audience,

25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI63PUXnVMw
1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film
directed and produced by Louis Lumière.
Often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made

26.  Innovator in the use of
special effects
 Two of his best-known
films are A Trip to the
Moon (1902) and The
Impossible Voyage
(1904).
 Both involve strange,
surreal voyages, and are
considered among the
most important early
science fiction films

27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGd_240ynk
The film includes the celebrated scene in which a spaceship
hits the man in the moon in the eye; it was loosely based on
Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The
First Men in the Moon.

28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-OxJLYlmA
Playing Cards is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent
film by Georges Méliès.
It was the first film in Méliès' prolific career, and thus, is
number one in his Star Film catalogue.

29.  An American early film
pioneer, most famous as
a director with Thomas
Edison's company.
 Of over 250 films created
by Porter, the most
important films include
Life of an American
Fireman and The Great
Train Robbery

30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY
The first action-adventure motion picture was The Great Train
Robbery.

31.  American film director
 For his pioneering
techniques and early
understanding of
cinema, Griffith is
considered among the
most important figures
in the history of the
medium.

32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A
D.W. Griffith is best known for his work on the film The Birth
of a Nation

33. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEE2UL_N7Q
• 1925 silent film
• Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most
influential propaganda films of all time

34.  The original studio using
founded in 1919 by D. W.
Griffith, Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford, and
Douglas Fairbanks
 Intended to control their
own interests rather than
depending upon the
powerful commercial
studios.

35.  Sound
 The Jazz Singer is a 1927
American musical film.
 First feature-length
motion picture with
synchronized dialogue
sequences
 Its release heralded the
commercial ascendance
of the "talkies" and the
decline of the silent film
era.

36.  Storytelling enhanced by
sound
 Al Jolson
 Jazz Singer, 1927
 Singing fool, 1928

37.  Notable for being one of
the first cartoons with
synchronized sound.
 http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ
Lee DeForest invented the audio tube that made sound in
movies possible.

39.  Color
 Initially color films were
colored one frame at
time

40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuIb7BIFqk
Flowers and Trees was a phenomenal success, and within a year,
the now-in-Technicolor Silly Symphonies series had popularity
and success that matched (and later surpassed) that of the
Mickey Mouse cartoons

41. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-P_Ira6kgE
A landmark in cinema, first film to use the newly developed three-
strip Technicolor production

42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpVsTuOpK8
Audiences’ acceptance of color in motion pictures began in 1939
with The Wizard of Oz

43.  Big Screens & 3D

44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7yIbcqGaQ

45. http://www.g4tv.com/videos/48219/Avatars-Cameron-Pace-3D-
Camera-Rig-Review/

46.  A B movie is a low-budget
commercial motion picture that
is not definitively an arthouse.
 In its original usage, during the
Golden Age of Hollywood, the
term more precisely identified a
film intended for distribution as
the less-publicized, bottom half
of a double feature.
 The king of the "B" movies is
considered to be Roger Corman.

48.  A multiplex is a movie
theater complex with
multiple screens,
typically six, ten, or more
screens.
 The largest of these
complexes can sit
thousands of people and
are sometimes referred
to as a megaplex.

50. • The Shot: Quick
Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock;
Art Direction: Saul Bass
technical
perspective:
the
shot

51. • The Shot: Quick
Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock;
Art Direction: Saul Bass
technical
perspective:
the
shot

52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abLMg0PV_MM
The Saddest Music in the World is filmed in a style that imitates
late 1920s and early 1930s cinema, with grainy black-and-white
photography, slightly out-of-sync sound and expressionist art
design. A few scenes are filmed in colour, in a manner that
imitates early two-strip Technicolor.

54. https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=-GlwowBL_bY

55. http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/
Areas of ethical concern for the motion picture industry
include stereotypes, violence, smoking, and copyright
infringement.

56.  1968 American independent horror film
 Nationally, it was shown as a Saturday
afternoon matinée – as was typical for horror
films at the time – and attracted an audience
consisting of pre-teens and adolescents.
 The MPAA film rating system was not in place
until November 1968, so even young children
were not prohibited from purchasing tickets.
 Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times chided
theater owners and parents who allowed
children access to the film with such potent
content for a horror film they were entirely
unprepared for.
 "I don't think the younger kids really knew
what hit them," he said. "They were used to
going to movies, sure, and they'd seen some
horror movies before, sure, but this was
something else." According to Ebert, the film
affected the audience immediately
 https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=5gUKvmOE
GCU

58.  A first-time offender of
video recording in theatres
can face up to 5 years in
prison or be fined up to
$250 000.
 Despite avoiding prison
time, offenders may face a
lawsuit from the Motion
Picture Association of
America so that they may
recoup their billion-dollar
losses.
 http://www.therichest.com/rich-
list/the-biggest/8-of-americas-
biggest-black-market-industries/5/

59. Myths and symbols of a culture are employed by directors

60. At least 12 genres reflect a societies cultural values

61. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J--TDEHizVA
Sample of an arthouse film

62. http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ffcpz6/bonnie-and-clyde-
trailer

65.  Top Movies by Year:
 http://www.the-numbers.com/market/

66. http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Sources/

67. http://www.the-numbers.com/market/MPAARatings/

68. http://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/dvd-sales/2013

69. http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2013/top-grossing-movies

70.  Note: The figures in this chart represent the
total amount of domestic (US+Canada)
revenue generated by all the movies a star
has had an above-the-line role in over their
lifetime.
 Roles in animated movies are included in
the calculations in this chart.
 This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
Above-the-line credits are the names that
appear one by one on the screen during the
opening (or sometimes closing) credits for a
film.
 http://www.the-
numbers.com/people/records/top-grossing-
above-the-line-actors

74. Greed, 2009: Directed By Roman Polanski

75. Mann Chinese 6

77. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594Oxq4c0XA