The changes within the film industry 1990-2004
Technological and Social Change in Hollywood
A Brief History of Film
Film, as an industry, came to be in 1893 with the creation of the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, in West Orange, New Jersey. Thomas Edison built the studio on the grounds of his laboratories, for he was the inventor of the first camera and projection equipment: the kinetograph and kinetescope, respectively.
A French magician named Georges Melies was the first person to use artificially arranged scenes to tell a narrative story in his film Cendrillon (1899). The 1930s gave way to the introduction of sound in film. Consequently, movies took on a role as a form of entertainment.
Technological Advances
DreamWorks SKG, the entertainment company formed in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, is the industry leader in digital animation. In February 1995, the New York Times reported that Silicon Graphics Inc. was likely to invest in a computerized digital studio with DreamWorks. That was a wise choice for Silicon; DreamWorks proceeded to produce colossal hits in the animation genre, such as Ants (1998) and Shrek (2001). DreamWorks proved that digital animation evolved from drawn characters to having characters completely computer-generated. The difference is apparent with the success of movies such as Shrek, the first ever winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated feature film in 2002.
Ten years ago, the film industry's biggest problem was trying to introduce digital options to its filmmakers. Now, the industry faces a bigger problem: the stealing of its work by Internet piracy. But not everyone in the industry agrees that the Internet can be viewed as an enemy. Film producer Peter Guber predicted "an 'enormous' future for the business-to-business applications of moving-image media over the Internet as an adjunct to existing communications." Guber also...
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The changes within the film industry 1990-2004 (with works cited)
... the creation of the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, in West Orange, New Jersey. Thomas Edison built the studio on the grounds of his laboratories, for he was the inventor of the first camera and projection equipment ...
Title: Birth of a Nation: A History of Anti-racism Films
... for the new black cinema. The medium of film has a surface realism which tends to disguise fantasy and make it seem true. Since the creation of the technology ...
Blacks Independant Film Industry
... obtain new equipment which was needed. Then in the depression the majority of the film industries went under except for the most dominating companies like the Oscar Micheaux Corporation. Other black film industries ...
Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.
... on the studios back lots. The stories were formulaic. One reason that they were formulaic, among many reasons, was because of the restrictive Hayse code. A film called Jezebel from the late ...
Flesh and the Devil - Clarence Brown, technical devices and cinematic movements of 1920s in the construction of drama.
... during the 1920s. A new approach to cinematography introduced a creation of soft and blurred images, rather than the hard-edged, sharp tones of previous films. This new approach ...
This is a speech directed to the audience of the 2003 Academy Awards arguing that feature films are made for money, rather than entertainment.
... out there that make you consider the world in a whole new light. "American Beauty", directed by Sam Mendes, for instance, is a classic example of a film that challenges the stereotypical roles of society. The heroine, Jane Burnham, played by ...
In what ways and to what effect did the British cinema of the second world war mobilize support for the war effort?
... To project an image of Britain across the world. Whilst most films were open for consumption on the world market, few caught international attention like this period drama. The long ...
History of Film
... pictures. Thomas Edison built on his idea by inventing the Kinetograph, which was the first practical moving picture camera. He also came out with the Kinetoscope, a cabinet that contained a continuous loop of Dickson's films. It was projected by ...