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Many veteran producers and writers, such as A .L. Erlanger, E. F. Albee, Frederick Proctor, and David Belasco, all died in the early 1930’s, and with them “the creators of Broadway as it existed were passing” (Talkin broadway). As new artists took their place, new shows and ideas about social issues began to take center stage, causing groups like Actor’s Equity to speak out and cause argument over public censorship. Commercial Theaters also didn’t want to produce controversial pieces, so many theater professionals ended up creating their own groups or companies so they could produce the pieces they wanted to. This also allowed them to gain more profit, since they didn’t lose money to a big company. Theater still provided “relief from the world,” but it was more acceptable to discuss what was going on in the world, and musicals were able to discuss even more that dramas “because the appeal was to a far wider spectrum of theater going public”(Musicals101).

Article Three – Author: David Bordwell / Title of Article: The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film

The censorship conflicts in the 1900s were extremely intriguing and intense. Around the end of the 1920s, individuals possessed immense moral shifts powered by religious groups during the Great Depression, which resulted in decisions that created a new revolution that dealt particularly with the regulation of content of films. Consequently, in 1934, at the same time that the “Golden Age of Hollywood” began, the Hollywood Production code was formally implemented. The film

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During the early years of Hollywood, films had very few regulations on how they can be made. From 1922 till 1930, people were outraged at Hollywood that they have no rules on how they should make films. In response, religious groups were editing movies for their local communities to make them save for their standards. Eventually the government started to talk about enforcing rules that would censor Hollywood movies for the public. To stop that from happening, Hollywood enforced their own rules called the Motion Picture Production Code or the Hays Code.

Although gangster films were a hit with the mainstream audiences, it wasn't with the Protestant and Catholic religious groups. This sparked the beginning of the new movie code, that would be introduced. In 1934 with the Movie Industry still plummeting, the Motion Picture Production code was put into action. The Code was founded in 1930 and was made to censor films and create guidelines for production studios to adhere to. The code was never carried out until 1934, when the Production Code Administration was founded. They required all films and even scripts, be pre approved before going to theaters.

There were many physical changes that took place with the theatres and the productions. Depression hit New York pretty hard, 1.6 million out of 7 million people were in some sort of welfare programs, as well as one third of the city’s factories were forced to be shutdown. Theatres were either closed down or were tuned into movie houses. Production output slowed down, before the depression there were 264 productions between 1927-28 and then during the depression, (1930-31) there was only 187 productions, because it was difficult to fundraise money. It was also very difficult to get a job in a theatrical field during the recession, there were about five thousand people that were jobless.

One of the best known science fiction movies in the world was made in the 1970’s; that movie is Star Wars. When it came to scary movies The Exorcist brought a whole new outlook on how horror movies were made, and it was one of the most disturbing movies of its time. Aside from film, television was taking a new spin on things too, one TV show that made its first appearance in the 1970’s was called Saturday Night Live. It was a live show consisting of very funny skits, popular actors and actresses, and hilarious improv. Those were not the only popular movies and TV shows, but they were some of the

No longer are we appalled by indecency but now we laugh at it. We have an attitude that it is not harmful. Some of the most prominent comedians of today rely almost solely on either graphic sexual language or just raw curse. In the past these comedians would have had to do better than that because we had a more intolerant view of such indecency. The material would have to be funny not just amusing from sheer shock. Movies were forced to promote plot and have artistic merit instead of relying on sex or violence to draw a crowd. The rich creativity of our entertainers that once drew a crowd has been replaced by smut.

Hollywood has been a formidable force in the film industry since the 1910’s onwards. As with any industry that has lasted that length of time, Hollywood has gone through a few changes to deal with the changes in technology and culture. One of the more significant changes that Hollywood has faced since the advent of sound in films, was the fall of its Golden Era. There were a combination of reasons the industry went through dramatic changes in the late 1950s to mid-1960s. The Paramount decree and other government imposed limitation on power of the studios, change in audience demographic, and a strict code system limiting the types of stories that could be told through the medium of film all contributed to a shift in the industry and the type of product that Hollywood

One strategy was to sell or lease there older films to the television industry. Soon after the 1950, all major studios were on board and by the 1960s, movies were on primetime TV. Another key strategy was during the Reagan presidency, they can buy and sell smaller companies that they would compete with before and now they can control what smaller companies will produce. Either way, the major studios would be making money. After all this work, theater attendance was still falling. It wasn’t until uni-versal studios can across some major hits like star wars and jaws. They discov-ered that if they market and release there movies during the summer time. They would produce record high revenue, this would make sense due the fact that most movie goers are usually teens and they are off during the summer. Another suc-cess was the invention of the “Movie Channel” like HBO. These TV channels proved to be just as successful as the box

There is not a lot of history on the movie ratings, just a few. The first one being, the rating system was first launched in 1968 my the chairman of MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). When he first launched it, it was only a four-level rating system. Those levels being G (as we know general audiences), M or mature audiences, R was still restricted (with minor changes), and X only adult. R was originally no one under the age of 16 without an adult. It was later changed to know one under the age of 17, as we know today. X was later substituted for NC-17. At first, X was established by filmmakers for when they made movies with intense nudity. An example of such nudity being, pornography. The original reason for rating the movies was so that the parents knew generally what was going to be in the movie. It has been roughly stated what MPAA is, but not

Through the 1920´s 30s and 40s Hollywood was dominated by the studio system. This system gave studios unparalleled control over film production and the people who worked on them. However, this level of control was not to last as several important events in the late 1940s would dramatically influence the film business. These events were the Paramount decision of 1948 and the Hollywood blacklists in the late 1940s. Both of these events would profoundly reshape the filmmaking business and the way it operated, with effects that last to this very day.

In 1903, art has developed the world as a modern society in variety ways. The first movie theater, the Electric Theater, opened in Los Angeles. Lots of films are released like Alice in Wonderland, Life of an American Fireman, and The Great Train Robbery. Films that released in 1903 are regarded as a milestone in film history because of their unique ideas and camera works. Especially, The Great Train Robbery had inspired to modern movies by its camera movement, cross cutting, and innovative composite editing. Isabela Duncan, who was an American dancer and devoted her whole life for dancing, develops a free dance, which is a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Also, Pablo Picasso, the great painter, painted The Tragedy, La vie, and Portrait of Angel. This year is known as his ‘blue period’. The musical The Wizard of Oz opened on Broadway, which brought popularity of musical.

“film about films and about itself” (Page, 2005). This is also exemplified by "Singing in the