Slapstick film

During the first forty years of cinema, the ways in which the moving image was being created and used were constantly changing. By comparing Howard Hawks’ 1938 film Bringing Up Baby, a screwball comedy produced within the Hollywood studio system, with Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a Surrealist film made in 1929, the different possibilities and purposes of cinema become apparent. Bringing Up Baby follows David Huxley (Carey Grant), a shy palaeontologist who meets the lively Susan

The movie theater has a significant influence on the cultural formation of a society. The United States has always been at the forefront of film history, despite not being the first country to develop the art of motion filming. It was through film that the US consolidated the American way of Life in the world. After World War II the United States stepped up their cultural influence, begun in the 1930s and 1940s, using mainly movies. The American cinema began to spread many traces of their own culture

After seeing three Chaplin films at this point in chronological order it is not hard to notice the extreme difference from the film “City Lights” to Chaplin’s earlier films “Mabel’s Predicament” and “The Pawnshop”. In terms of cinematography it is real easy to see the differences in these films. To begin the cinematography is different in that in the first two films most of the shots are wide shots and with very minimal cuts. Also the lengths of the first two films are very short “Mabel’s Predicament”

memorable and marketable aspect that came out of the Despicable Me movies were the Minions, little yellow creatures that only spoke partial English and showcased about as much intelligence as a garden gnome - maybe less. They weren 't fun in the first film, when they were decidedly secondary characters, and they were even more annoying in the second, when they played a larger role. Now, because the universe hates us, they 've been given a standalone movie, officially taking center stage for the first

amusement and or enjoyment, which is the heart and soul of the comedy genre. While watching comedies, people love to laugh, more importantly, at someone. This special character has been put into their own category of ‘The Misfit.’ When TV began slapstick comedy was popular, shows like The Three Stooges were successful and was so good that it went on for years, casting new actors to keep the characters alive. Over time, the comedy has developed to have realistic and relatable characters, whom have

April 2015 Film History is a Blast From the Past The 1920’s was a time of vast exploration in many areas of cultural interest. With the introduction of synchronized sound with motion pictures, the film industry experienced a tremendous boom. The advancements of the movie industry during this produced a massive amount of profits. In the entirety of film history, the 1920’s was a time of great innovation and grandeur and was the beginning of many advancements to come. The earliest films were only approximately

Bay area, upon the suggestion of his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, Flaherty bought a Bell and Howell 16 mm film camera and decided to make a visual record of the extraordinary lives and customs he witnessed in the Canadian north (“The Lost Worlds of Flaherty”). Flaherty mentions in the preface of Nanook of the North that when he was not seriously engaged in exploratory work, he would compile films of the Eskimos living with him (“The Lost Worlds of Flaherty”). He also notes that he has no prior experience

Plays and dances had elements common to films- scripts, sets, lighting, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, and scores. They preceded film by thousands of years. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism applied, such as mise en scène. Moving visual images and sounds were not recorded for replaying as in film. The camera obscura was pioneered by Alhazen in his Book of Optics (1021),[2][3][4] and was later perfected near the year 1600 by Giambattista

political correctness, the new golden rule in American life, which is to never joke about anything that may be deemed even remotely offensive or upsetting by any segment of the population for any reason. Watch a movie like Dirty Harry or a Marilyn Monroe film, and they are tame compared to what we see in today's horror movies like "Saw". But with Hollywood comedy, it has gone in a different direction, in the name of political correctness. I do not think a movie like Blazing Saddles could be made today.

The Ever-Changing Field of Film The world of film has changed dramatically over the years and will likely continue to change along with technological and professional developments. Like many modern innovations, film has changed substantially over a rather short period of time, from black and white movies to modernized color films. Still, it is impressive to think how far film has come, and looking back into the near past affords an appreciation of the technology that no longer exists. Thus my viewing