Though some of you might see my posts for these on Facebook,  some of you don't.  I figure some of those of you that don't would be interested in this series of blog posts I've been doing on Film History.    

So here are the first four...

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Before Film.  Before screenwriting was even in the picture, we needed the picture – a moving one at that.  The first “motion pictures”  came to us in the form of mechanical devices.  One was called the Phenakistoscope which was invented by.......

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The Earliest Films. The earliest films were non-narrative documents of mundane events or entertainment acts.  The competing companies where those that had projectors.  In the US, Edison Company had the Kinetoscope.  In France, the Lumière Brothers had the.........

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The First Narrative Films. Up until around 1896 all films were recordings of real time events.  Some may have told limited stories but ultimately they were the equivalent of sketches or stage acts. The man credited with discovering the potential of film as a narrative device.........

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/09/shot-in-narrative.html

A Shot in the Narrative. The shot is more than just a close-up.  It is an integral part of what film is today.  A film is a series of shots put together through editing to fictionalize an event - to tell the tale of it. Méliès had discovered that two different pieces of film can be put together to create.........

I post these once a week and I hope to continue the series for a while.  No promises on how long though.  Enjoy it.

More film history from my blog...

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/09/birth-of-industry.html

The Birth of an Industry. At first everyone thought films were a novelty. Early distribution forced the theatre owners to buy the prints of films they were showing. This didn't work out well for the......

More film history @ my blog

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/birth-of-art-form.html

The Birth of an Art Form. While most studios were forced into one reels by the MPPC and believing film would never be more than churned out cheap entertainment, some studios – especially those abroad ...

More film history @ my blog... D.W. Griffith

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/birth-of-nation.html

The Birth of a Nation was not the first film to make an artistic statement nor was it the first epic film -- that second distinction belongs to Quo Vadis (1912), an Italian film by ...

More film history @ my blog... Expressionism...

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/caligaris-cabinet.html

Let’s take a dark journey, one that brings us to pre-war Germany, the first World War.   The German’s have not taken to creating their own cinema – they would rather import it ...

More film history @ my blog... The Russian Revolution...

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/11/russian-revolution.html

Before the revolution films weren't very popular in Russia so there wasn't much of an industry. The working class was too impoverished and the ruling class basically d...

Even more film history @ my blog - Scandalous Hollywood - Part 1

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/11/scandalous-hollywood-part-1.html

Early filmmakers flocked to Hollywood and it wasn’t just because it never rains in Southern California. It was because it was close to the Mexican border, early filmmakers made dodgy deals to get their films made and sometimes they found it necessary to take a sudden vacation. Hollywood was a rec...

More film history @ my blog - Scandalous Hollywood Part 2

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/11/besides-being-full-of-scandals-due-to.html

Besides being full of scandals due to the “new morality” during the 20s, Hollywood was also full of comedy. It was the golden age of silent comedy with Chaplin in front ...

More film history @ my blog - Caligari's Children

http://screenwriterscorner.blogspot.com/2011/11/caligaris-children.html

Between 1919 and 1924 the offspring of Caligari, the Schuerfilme (films of fantasy and terror), flourished in Germany.  You can see one of them, Der Golem(1920), in the previous post I did about Expressionism.