Film

The Evolution of American Culture Through Film (1865-1929)

By ayazamlani

  • Thomas Edison Develops the Kinetiscope

    Thomas Edison Develops the Kinetiscope
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030631290020003001 Citation:
    Carlson, W. Bernard, and Michael E. Gorman. "Understanding invention as a cognitive process: The case of Thomas Edison and early motion pictures, 1888-91." Social Studies of Science 20, no. 3 (1990): 387-430.

  • Monkeyshines

    Monkeyshines
    The First Ever American Film. Citation:
    Changebeforegoing. "Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890) - 1st USA Film - William K.L. Dickson | Heise | Thomas Edison." YouTube. November 24, 2011. Accessed July 31, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNc-mazLcko.

  • Blacksmith Scene

    Blacksmith Scene
    The First Kinetoscope Film Shown in Public Exhibition. Citation:
    Musser, Charles. "At the beginning: Motion Picture production, representation and ideology at the Edison and Lumiere companies." The silent cinema reader (2004): 15-30.

  • The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

    The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
    The First Feature Film.
    The First Wide Screen Film.
    The Most Successful Film of the Century. Citation:
    Hansen, Miriam. Babel and Babylon. Harvard University Press, 1994.

  • The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation
    The First True Hollywood Blockbuster - Grossed $10 Million @ $2/ticket. Citation:
    Griffith, David Wark, Thomas Dixon, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, and Miriam Cooper. "The birth of a nation." (1915).

  • The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments
    The Most Expensive Film of That Time.
    The Largest Set of That Time. Citation:
    Sobchack, Vivian. "What is film history? Or the Riddle of the sphinxes." Spectator-The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television 20, no. 1 (1999): 8-22.