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Flickchart Film School: 1926
27, Mar 2013
by Ross Bonaime
1926, seemingly by coincidence, became a gigantic year of firsts – not only for some of the biggest filmmakers of all time, but also for the technology and growth of film.
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- Tags: 1926, 3 Bad Men, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Battling Butler, Blue Eagle, Brown of Harvard, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chan, Clara Bow, Don Juan, Douglas Fairbanks, F.W. Murnau, Faust: A German Folk Legend, Flesh and the Devil, Greta Garbo, Jean Renoir, John Ford, John Wayne, Moana, Nana, Nanook of the North, Robert J. Flaherty, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Black Pirate, The General, The House Without a Key, The Lodger, The Pleasure Garden, The Temptress, Torrent, Warner Oland
Flickchart Film School: 1925
6, Jul 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1925, the dawning of a new age in film that is right around the corner can already be seen. One of the largest steps is not only seeing film, but also hearing it. A big step towards this process was made when Western Electric and Warner Bros. decide to work together in order to make a system to make motion pictures with sound. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: 1925, 1926, Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ, Charles Chaplin, F.W. Murnau, Faust: A German Folk Legend, Georgia Hale, Gone With the Wind, Harold Lloyd, King Kong, Lita Grey, Lon Chaney, Mack Swain, The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Freshman, The Gold Rush, The Lost World, The Phantom of the Opera, Tom Murray, Warner Bros., Western Electric
Flickchart Film School: 1924
28, Apr 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1924, two of cinema’s most famous film studios were created. Three companies, Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Picutres Company combined to form MGM. The first film under the MGM banner was Lon Chaney’s He Who Gets Slapped, which would also be the first film to begin with the infamous lion roar that would be the logo for MGM for decades after. In the same year, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joseph Brandt would change their C.B.C. Film Sales Company into the Columbia Film Corporation.
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- Tags: 1924, 1925, Aelita: Queen of Mars, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Columbia, Douglas Fairbanks, Eisenstein, Erich von Stroheim, Ethel Barrymore, F.W. Murnau, Greed, He Who Gets Slapped, Karl Freund, Lita Grey, Lon Chaney, MGM, Sherlock Jr, Strike, The Gold Rush, The Last Laugh, The Navigator, The Thief of Baghdad, Thomas Ince, Time Magazine, Ward Crane, William Randolph Hearst
Flickchart Film School: 1923
22, Mar 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1923, one of Hollywood’s most famous landmarks was created. The HOLLYWOOD sign, which originally said HOLLYWOODLAND, was built for only $21,000 over the Hollywood Hills. The famous sign was originally created to help raise home sales in Beachwood Canyon.
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- Tags: A Woman of Paris, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. Demille, Charlie Chaplin, Charlton Heston, Dave and Max Fleischer, Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Lee de Forest, Lon Chaney, Mildred Davis, Our Hospitality, Safety Last!, Sam Taylor, Sherlock Jr, The Covered Wagon, The Einstein Theory of Relativity, The Gold Diggers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Pilgrim, The Ten Commandments, Warner Bros.
Flickchart Film School: 1922
16, Feb 2011by Ross Bonaime
The evolution of film hardly slowed down in 1922. In Russia, filmmaker Lev Kuleshov starting to experiment with a new editing technique called “montage”. The technique would be made popular by fellow Russian filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein in the upcoming years. Meanwhile in America, the first 3D feature film was shown to a paying audience. In Los Angeles, The Power of Love, which has since become a lost film, used red and green coloring and became the first film to use an early version of 3D glasses.
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- Tags: 1922, 3D, Bram Stoker, Count Orlok, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Dracula, Erich von Strohein, F.W. Murnau, Foolish Wives, Fritz Lang, German Expressionist, Harold Lloyd, John Malkovich, Lev Kuleshov, Little Rascals, Little Red Riding Hood, Max Schreck, MPAA, Nanook of the North, Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre, One Terrible Day, Rin Tin Tin, Robert J. Flaherty, Safety Last!, Sergei Eisenstein, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man From Hell's River, The Power of Love, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Werner Herzog, Will Hays, Willem Dafoe