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  1. Apr 29, 2024 · history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 1830–1910 Origins. The illusion of films is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first of these causes the ...

  2. 5 days ago · The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...

  3. 4 days ago · New Hollywood. The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema ), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.

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  5. Apr 15, 2024 · The MPA, originally called the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) and later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was established in 1922 by the major Hollywood production studios in response to increasing government censorship of films, which arose in turn from a general public outcry against both ...

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  6. 2 days ago · All of the major independent producers of the 1920s through 1950s, at one time or another, released their films through United Artists. In fact, the first independent film production to win the Best Picture Oscar was David O. Selznick’s [UA release] Rebecca in 1940. [ Gone with the Wind, though also produced by Selznick, had MGM financing and ...

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  7. Apr 12, 2024 · Independent cinema (US) 1. Films made outside the production, distribution, and exhibition framework of the major Hollywood studios and considered antithetical or oppositional to mainstream commercial cinema. 2. Films aimed at niche audiences made by independent film companies for commercial purposes, often in cooperation with the major film ...

  8. May 2, 2024 · American Film Institute Catalog covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976 to present. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed. In Advanced Search, under Genre, you can limit to Documentary. Harvard Collections.

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