The Birth of the Feature Film: Crash Course Film History #6
Movies didn't always look like they do now. There was a period (kind of a problematic one) where movies transitioned from short novelties to big, epic, feature films. That's our focus this...
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If you’ve been joining me from the beginning of our journey through the history of film, you might’ve noticed something. None of the films that I’ve talked about so far look like the movies you see today. Yes, Ryan Gosling got very little play in the late 1800s. But what I really mean is: We haven’t talked much about story. Character. Narrative. Like, you don’t go the the megaplex today, buy a bunch of popcorn, and sit down to watch movies of trains entering stations, or horses running in slow motion. That’s because, there was a period in the history of film – a really important and kind of problematic one – when film evolved, from a technical curiosity into a powerful visual storytelling machine. Artists, technicians, and engineers started d...
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If you’ve been joining me from the beginning of our journey through the history of film, you might’ve noticed something. None of the films that I’ve talked about so far look like the movies you see today. Yes, Ryan Gosling got very little play in the late 1800s. But what I really mean is: We haven’t talked much about story. Character. Narrative. Like, you don’t go the the megaplex today, buy a bunch of popcorn, and sit down to watch movies of trains entering stations, or horses running in slow motion. That’s because, there was a period in the history of film – a really important and kind of problematic one – when film evolved, from a technical curiosity into a powerful visual storytelling machine. Artists, technicians, and engineers started d...
