Lets Go to the Movies

Emily Mortimer shares her take on the title character in her film Mary Poppins Returns. Let's Go to the Movies What goes in to the phrase, "Let's go to the movies"?

An off-screen narrator takes us back to the earliest days of film: He explains how sound came to motion pictures: Next is a salute to the 30, people working in Hollywood at different crafts. A montage shows us some of those jobs. It ends with a look at the physical production of celluloid cotton and silver and the many aspects of movie making. The narrator promises more short films about each step in production. This little short celebrating the American movie industry and all of the workers behind it was rather interesting.

It didn't use all of its time talking about individual movies, instead it took a different point of view - that of technical developments.

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Thus the short starts with Edison's kinetoscope and mentioned that Edison didn't bother to spend the hundred dollars it would have taken to secure his rights to the machine overseas. This was puzzling since nobody in history with maybe the exception of Bill Gates has so diligently pursued a monopoly on their achievements. The short talks about "The Great Train Robbery", shows how the illusion of motion is achieved on screen using an old Charlie Chaplin short, and mentions a film of Mary Pickford's that I thought was now lost - "Feud in the Kentucky Hills".

A very good print of "Birth of a Nation" is shown as being one of the first feature films. The battlefield scene is shown as an example of an innovation in films.

At this point, the short jumps to the late 's with "The Jazz Singer" as the first feature with dialogue in it, and then jumps to two years later to John Barrymore in "The Show of Shows" doing a Shakespearean scene. I think this was to show how fast and far sound film came.

There was never a revolution in technology in film that shook things up like the coming of sound.

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Then the short jumps to the present - - and talks about how film itself is made from cotton that is processed and from silver. I believe the process they are showing here is for silver nitrate, the deterioration factor of which is ironically why so many pre films are gone forever.

Safety stock did not become the standard until Finally all of the technicians and scientists used to make a movie are saluted, and this is rather sad today since the migration to digital media means a much less labor intensive procedure is involved, thus fewer employees are needed, and that is pretty much the story of all American industries present day. To ask other readers questions about Let's Go to the Movies , please sign up.

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Be the first to ask a question about Let's Go to the Movies. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Sep 24, Kathleen rated it it was amazing. She stands for eighteen and all its snow-driven purity and curls. Nov 21, Amanda rated it really liked it Shelves: Iris Barry's popular defense of cinema from the s is a delightful and interesting read. She displays not only a biting wit and intelligence but a detailed understanding of the Hollywood studio system and the individual styles of different national cinemas.

An incredibly instrumental figure in the establishment of the modern day film canon due to her involvement in founding the Museum of Modern Art film library, Barry is a writer definitely worth reading. Dec 27, M. Bowers rated it really liked it Shelves: Barry has some odd and perhaps naive ideas about the purpose film should play in a society, but for the most part her observations are clever, cutting, insightful, and just as relevant today as they were 90 years ago.

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