A clicking machine, like a human hurricane

Carl Theodor Dreyer (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈtsʰe̝ːotɒ ˈtʁɑjˀɐ]; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer,[1] was a Danish film director. His movies are noted for their emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing. Frequent themes that his films explore are social intolerance, the inescapability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life. Dreyer is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.[2][3][4][5][6]



His 1928 movie The Passion of Joan of Arc is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, renowned for its cinematography and use of close-ups. It frequently appears on Sight & Sound's lists of the greatest films ever made, and in 2012's poll it was voted the 9th best film ever made by film critics and 37th by film directors. His other best known films include Michael (1924) Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Theodor_Dreyer


His style consisted of being as plain as possible.

He did this by removing set pieces to the bare essentials and using lots of white backgrounds and lights.

Film is a language of ideas. A visual vocabulary is necessary to translate and speak it. It is composed of a myriad of techniques and concepts. It also serves to connect viewers to stories while deliberately concealing the means by which it does so.

https://s.studiobinder.com/wp-content/up...ontage.jpg

Reducing data to pertinent clips to form a narrative! lol

In this cartoon you will see 3 different versions of data reduction from Warner bros., CBS, and Disney.
DAFFY DUCK GREAT MAGIC TRICK
https://youtu.be/Wvtz_ssnKvA

Most of the early sound pictures were filled with static symbolism and naturalism until Rouben Mamoulian used sound and music with effective results in 1932.

Love Me Tonight 1932

https://youtu.be/zXFeiy_VtWk

Here's another example done by Peter Jackson.

https://youtu.be/i6LGJ7evrAg

6 Film Genres in the 1930s were popular.

Horror
German expressionism
Universal Studios


Gangster
No European roots
Prohibition started it all.
Influencing all cinema around the world.


Westerns
offered landscapes and lots of movement instead of static cityscapes.
Mostly offered tales about lawmakers taming the old ways.


Musicals
Marching patterns and theatricality.
Social comments are patterned in the images.
Innovative erotic routines.


Comedy
Sound changed the speed and pacing
Screwball mayhem ensues
Realism and surrealism
https://youtu.be/9UWgGfW_Moo

Cartoons
Animation becomes an international phenom as an artform.
Motion capture technology developed.
Major innovations

The Enchanted Drawing

American animation owes its beginnings to J. Stuart Blackton, a British filmmaker who created the first animated film in America. Before creating cartoons, Blackton was a vaudeville performer known as "The Komikal Kartoonist." In his act, he drew "lightning sketches" or high-speed drawings. In 1895, he met Thomas Edison. Can you guess what this meeting with the famous inventor inspired him to do?

https://youtu.be/rYDmH2B9XJw

Notes on the Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921

Animated drawings were introduced to film a full decade after George Méliès had demonstrated in 1896 that objects could be set in motion through single-frame exposures. J. Stuart Blackton's 1906 animated chalk experiment Humorous Phases of Funny Faces was followed by the imaginative works of Winsor McCay, who made between four thousand and ten thousand separate line drawings for each of his three one-reel films released between 1911 and 1914. Only in the half-dozen years after 1914, with the technical simplifications (and patent wars) involving tracing, printing, and celluloid sheets, did animated cartoons become a thriving commercial enterprise. This period--upon which this collection concentrates--brought assembly-line standardization but also some surprisingly surreal wit to American animation. The twenty-one films (and two Winsor McCay fragments) in this collection, all from the Library of Congress holdings, include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation as well as pen drawings. Beyond their artistic interest, these tiny, often satiric, films tell much about the social fabric of World War I-era America.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/origins-...1900-1921/

 

Charlie Chaplin time traveling cell phone?

https://youtu.be/TiIrpEMbQ2M

Censorship in Film

Liz talks about various cases of censorship in film, from the Hays code to China to Video Nasties.

Presented by Liz Ryan, The Derry Public Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3oiPLX5-C4


Why was Hollywood censorship so significant to film distribution throughout the 1920s and 1930s?

https://youtu.be/6FDeCmSev4E

The word 'teenager' was coined back in the 1940s and 50s to market cheap B grade schlock movies to kids of that age.

United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 U.S. 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, or the Paramount Decision), was a landmark United States Supreme Court antitrust case that decided the fate of film studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights on which theatres would show their movies. It would also change the way Hollywood movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited. The Supreme Court affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York's ruling that the existing distribution scheme was in violation of United States antitrust law, which prohibits certain exclusive dealing arrangements.[1] The decision created the Paramount Decree, a standard held by the United States Department of Justice that prevented film production companies from owning exhibition companies.[2] The case is important both in U.S. antitrust law and film history. In the former, it remains a landmark decision in vertical integration cases; in the latter, it is responsible for putting an end to the old Hollywood studio system.

As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...tures,_Inc.

The word 'teenager' was coined back in the 1940s and 50s to market cheap B grade schlock movies to kids of that age.

Rebels without causes?





Who coined that phrase?



And insert a product placement or two too! lol

https://youtu.be/xT7F0eKfctg