The Silent Era: Crash Course Film History #9
The Silent Era of Hollywood set a lot of things into motion in terms of how movies were made and sold. Big stars were one of the main ways studios tried to make their movies stand apart from...
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Hollywood, here we come! The glamor! The celebrities! The scandals! I’m not talking about Bennifer or Brangelina. Craig: Are they still things? Nick: No... Craig: I'm kind of out of touch. But I'm not out of touch with the Golden Age of Silent Cinema, when stars rose and fell, studios perfected the mass production of films, and American movies dominated the global film market. In some ways, it was very different from the Hollywood we know today. Movie studios wielded enormous power. They kept stars and directors under tight control. The movies they made were silent. And a ticket would set you back a whopping 10 or 25 cents. On the other hand, a lot of the patterns set during this time still seem awfully familiar today. Studios marketed films ...
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Hollywood, here we come! The glamor! The celebrities! The scandals! I’m not talking about Bennifer or Brangelina. Craig: Are they still things? Nick: No... Craig: I'm kind of out of touch. But I'm not out of touch with the Golden Age of Silent Cinema, when stars rose and fell, studios perfected the mass production of films, and American movies dominated the global film market. In some ways, it was very different from the Hollywood we know today. Movie studios wielded enormous power. They kept stars and directors under tight control. The movies they made were silent. And a ticket would set you back a whopping 10 or 25 cents. On the other hand, a lot of the patterns set during this time still seem awfully familiar today. Studios marketed films ...
