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Besides name authorslike F. Scott Fitzgerald& William Faulkner,
Hollywood importedBroadway Stars
Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice,The Marx Brothers, Mae West
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Color
Hand tinting certainelements
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Tinting entire frame
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Stencils
Pathe Color with stencils, circa 1905
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Technicolor & HerbertKalmus Founded in 1915
Three strip became standardinstead of cheaper two stripwith problematic skin tones
High production costs - morelights + more film = more $$
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Technicolor #4 becamestandard for many years
First live action short La
Cucaracha in 1934 First feature Becky Sharp
in 1935
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The Production Code Hays office formed in 1922
as a result of a series of
scandals for self-regulation(see Fatty Arbuckle)
Published in 1930, adoptedfully in 1934
"if motion pictures presentstories that will affect lives
for the better, they canbecome the most powerfulforce for the improvement ofmankind"
The Hays Code
William Hays
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Profits hit hard during theDepression
Needed to lure back their
audience Production Code created
by producers to please theCatholic Church andvarious other sociallyconservative groups
No pictures in theatres thathad not been passed bythe Code administration
Phased out in 1968
Betty Boop & Laughing Gas
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Baby Face & Love Me Tonight
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General Principles1. No picture shall be produced that
will lower the moral standards of
those who see it. Hence thesympathy of the audience shouldnever be thrown to the side ofcrime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2. Correct standards of life, subjectonly to the requirements of drama
and entertainment, shall bepresented.
3. Law, natural or human, shall notbe ridiculed, nor shall sympathybe created for its violation.
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Excessive violence
Sex - even for marriedcouples
Words such as hell,sex, and damn
Gave rise to stylizedgenres which were less
threatening than gangstermovies and sex romps
Self-regulation preferredto that of the government
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Some things made itthrough
Bringing up Baby & The Gangs All Here
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Some did not
Casablanca & I Love Lucy
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Some careers didnot survive the Code
Mae West
She Done Him WrongWhy dont you come up & see meSometime? Im home every evening.
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Films became moreconservative
Moral messages Comedies
Unite and not divide
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Musicals
Busby Berkley
Fred Astaire
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Comedy
Screwball
Surreal
My Man Godfrey & Monkey Business
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The Filmmakers
Ernst Lubitsch
William Wyler Howard Hawks
John Ford
Frank Capra
Saratoga
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Howard Hawks- Rapid-fire, overlapping
dialogue
- Used first string writers- Keen eye for talent such
as Paul Muni, CaroleLombard, Lauren Bacalland Montgomery Clift
- Most versatile - crossedgenres
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The Big Sleep
His Girl Friday Red River
Bringing Up Baby
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William Wyler Long takes
Deep focus
Elicited greatperformances through amassive amount of takes- 40 Take Wyler
Actors seldom worked
with him again
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The LetterDead End
JezebelWuthering Heights
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John Ford Began as an actor - he
was one of the ridingKlansmen in Birth of a
Nation Hit his stride in the 1930s
with The Informer
Worked often with JohnWayne whom he called abig dummy
Responsible for some ofthe most enduring imageryin American film
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The Informer
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Fort Apache
They Were Expendable
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Frank Capra Started in silent
comedies as a gag writer
Successes for HarryCohn at Columbiamaking the PovertyRow studio into a player
Most successful directorof the 1930s
Supreme craftsman
Frank Capra on IMDB
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Platinum Blonde(1931), Forbidden(1932) Lady for a Day(1933), It Happened One Night, (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes toTown, (136), Lost Horizon(1937), You Cant Take It With
You(1938, Its a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Mr. Smith Goes toWashington(1939) Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur,
Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell, EdwardArnold
Dir. Frank Capra
Made Stewart a major star
Joseph Breen, head of the Hays Officefor censorship, objected to the
generally unflattering portrayal of oursystem of Government, which might welllead to such a picture being considered,both here, and more particularly abroad,as a covert attack on the Democraticform of government
Darker & more pessimistic than Capras
other films
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James Stewart, 1908-1997 Portrayed many iconic roles in American Film
although not immediately successful becauseof his gangly looks and shy, bumbling manner
Flew bombing missions over Germany in
WWII & eventually became a BrigadierGeneral
One of the first independently contractedactors
Married for 45 years to the same spouse!
5 Oscar nominations won for PhiladelphiaStory
Famed later collaborations with AlfredHitchcock and Anthony Mann (Westerns)
Films include: You Cant Take It With You,Harvey, Its a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goesto Washington, Vertigo, Rear Window, TheMan Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Anatomy ofa Murder, The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance, Destry Rides Again
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Jean Arthur, 1900-1991 Her squeaky voice gave her a career in
comedy but no one knew what to dowith her before Capra & Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town & You Cant Take It WithYou
Career waned in the 40s she wasreleased from her contract at Columbiawhere she was the top-grossing actresseven though Harry Cohn & Arthur had
many disagreements She retired & only appearing in moviesone more time in 1953 for Shane
George Stevens (Shane) famouslycalled her "one of the greatestcomediennes the screen has everseen", while Capra credited her as "myfavorite actress"
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Claude Rains, 1889-1967 Leading stage actor and teacher in
London he taught Lawrence Olivier& John Gielgud and New York
Began in horror films at Universalbecause of his raspy voice
Moved on to literary adaptations atWarner Brothers
Unique position as an A-Listsupporting actor
Four Oscar nominations but neverwon
40 films in the 1940s
Eventually embraced televisionappearing in countless televisionshows
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Thomas Mitchell, one of the mostrecognizable character actors of theperiod, also the first person ever to winan Oscar, Emmy & Tony
Edward Arnold, another of Hollywoodsvery employed character actors, whichhe came into when he gave up trying tolose weight
And a whole mess of other Its that
guy! actors