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65Movie Studios: The Big Five and the Little Three
In the 1920s the movie industry was still in its infancy, but it was already having growing pains. By the mid-1920s, five studios (often called "The Big Five") were producing most of the movies. The "Big Five"...
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45Women in the Movies
In the early movies, women were depicted as airheads who needed to be saved — sometimes from themselves. The first movie that Mary Pickford made was "Her First Biscuits." The silent film was about a bride...
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42Stunt Men and Women in the Movies
In the early days of film, nobody even considered the idea that the star of the movie wouldn't participate in all of the scenes even if the scenes were dangerous. The early movie stars ALL did their own...
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64Movies Embrace Technicolor
The original Technicolor technology that was developed was a beam-splitter that would take the original image coming through the lens of the camera and split it into two separate images that would then strike...
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64Movies in Black and White
Do you think that when you see a movie that you are seeing people move? You're wrong. You are not seeing people move. You are seeing the effect of "persistence of vision." You are actually seeing a series of...
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44Movies During War Years
War provides the perfect scenario for action films. The very situation of war calls for action scenes like air dogfights, submarine warfare, and hand-to-hand combat. In a war-based action movie, there are...
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41Drama in the Movies
Tragedy has always been a favorite movie theme. Or, maybe I should say, tragedy and then triumph over tragedy has always been a favorite movie theme. We call it drama.There are a great many subsets under the...
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64Sound Development in Movies
In the early days of motion pictures, there were really three major problems with producing movies with synchronized sound. Those problems were synchronization, playback volume, and sound fidelity. Technology...
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62The World before Movies
We take movies for granted today. We can pick up a newspaper and find advertisements for movies in practically any genre on any day of the week. The only problem we have is choosing which of the many offerings...
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49Basis of movies: Action Movies
The very basis of movies is, well, movement — action. Still pictures don't move. Moving pictures do move. Even when the movie industry was in its infancy, it seems that movie makers instinctively knew that...
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