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| 1890s, sound introduced by 1920s | What year was silent cinema created? |
| The Zoetrope invented in 1833 (it is like a series of images bit lie a flip book and you spin it around so its like they're moving | What is a zoetrope? |
| 1950s | When did cinema gain popularity? |
| Edison and Lumirere Brothers | Who were described as the fathers of cinema? |
| First film released was workers leaving a factory by Lumiere Brothers and last less than a minute. Cinema originally was a way of capturing of moving texture of reality | What was the first film and why was it created? |
| DW Griffiths 1915 and Samual Goldwyn | Who became known as ‘movie moguls’ in 1915? |
| Late 1980s, censorship came into place, this was developed by the studios themselves. All films were suitable for everyone, because none of them had swearing or anything. | What is the ‘Hays Code’ and when was it introduced? |
| 1912, had a rating system much like it does now | When was the British Board of Film Censorship created? |
| Basically it was a thing that said there has to be a certain amount of British films in the cinema so it isn’t just American ones, this made Britain make more films and have a bigger share of the market | What was Cinematographic Act 1927? And how did it effect the share Britain had on the market? |
| Crimean | Who was a pioneering war correspondent in 1854-6? |
| Soviet government commissions productions and carried the films to places on these trains | What is an agot train? |
| Boer 1899-1902 | Who made the controversial film 'Concentration Camp'? |
| Lord Kitchener, telling people to join the war | Great War: 1914-18, who made the iconic poster and what was the message? |
| Many representations inc; ‘Glory and Slaughter’ saying that people are killing each other just for glory, film ‘oh what a lovely war’ ironic musical | How did the media represent the Great War? |
| Pioneers techniques, notably montage to create classics like ‘the battleship Potemkin’ 925 and ‘october’ 1928. Montage allowed more framing. | Who is Eeisenstein and what did he do? |
| Film by Leni Riefenshaths 1935, making out being a nazi as a good thing | ‘Triamph of the Will’ what is this? |
| George Forby | Who made the morale boosting film ‘Let George do it’ 1940? |
| It was a big production in technicolour, had famous actor in lead role, and based on Shakespeare play, they put a lot of money into it and it was designed to be a big piece of propaganda. | What is significant about the film Henry V (1944) ? |
| Attempts to influence US opine(hold and state ones opinion) against Hitler | What was the purpose of Afred Hitchcocks ‘Foreign Correspondent’ 1940? |
| The Cold War through media. So for example a lot of popular films displaying messages clearly either for or against communism. | What is meant by the cultural cold war? |
| United States Information Agency (USIA) set-up 1953 aimed to co-ordinate a global campaign against communism. Hollywood and government worked together and created many films that encouraged fear of communism. | How did Hollywood react to the fear of Communism? And what is the USIA? |
| Now that the public could see what was going on they developed their own opinions on the war... which were mixed. | How did having reporters and television during the Vietnam war effect the view from the public? |
| Showed negative side of the war and the physical and psychological effects it had on soldiers | The film ‘The deer hunter’ what was it about? |
| Entertainment based on warfare. The link between Hollywood and the military, seen today as films about terrorism are popular | Define ‘militainment’ |
| Propaganda film made with the US official army co-operation | The Green Berets (1968) |