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Page 1: The Classical Hollywood Silent Era 1908-1927 In the beginning… As an art movement, The Silent Era follows… Early Experimental Cinema 1893-1903 (the inventors)

The Classical Hollywood Silent

Era1908-1927

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In the beginning…

As an art movement, The Silent Era follows…

• Early Experimental Cinema 1893-1903 (the inventors) in the US and France

•The Brighton School 1896-1905 in England

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In the beginning…• Filmmaking was still in its infancy as an art—

films were more money-making ventures and technological experiments

• Directors were not encouraged to be artists—they were thought of as factory workers

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Early Edison Films

Sandow, 1894

The Kiss, 1896

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The Great Train Robbery (1903)

• First Western• First to use editing as a

storytelling technique• One of the first to use

panning and close-ups• Moved from documentary to

narrative• Based on a true robbery by

Butch Cassidy

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The Silent Era as Art• The Classical Hollywood Silent era is marked

by the films that emerged with the first film studios

• Silent films began to take on a narrative structure and use filmmaking conventions

• D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation set the stage for modern cinematic storytelling

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Birth of a Nation (1915)• Based Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-

black, bigoted play, The Clansman • Its release set up a major

censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans. Unbelievably, the film is still used today as a recruitment piece for Klan membership.

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Birth of a Nation (1915)• It was one of the biggest box-office

money-makers in the history of film, due to its charge of $2 per ticket. It made $18 million by the start of the talkies.

• Riots in Boston and Philadelphia. Chicago, Denver, St. Louis and other major cities refuse to show it

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Birth of a Nation (1915)• Film scholars agree, however, that

it is the single most important and key film of all time in American movie history

• Introduces & refines camera angles, traveling shots, artificial lighting, realistic sets, flashbacks, split screens, soft focus, dissolves, fades, and irises.

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Stars of the Silent Screen

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Florence LawrenceAmerica’s 1st Movie Star

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Mary PickfordAmerica’s Sweetheart

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Charlie Chaplin

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Harold Lloyd

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Buster Keaton

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Fatty Arbuckle

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Keystone Kops

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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.The King of Silent Hollywood

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Clara BowThe “It” Girl

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Rudolph Valentino

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Dorothy & Lillian Gish

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Theda Bara

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Lon ChaneyThe Man of a Thousand Faces

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Tom Mix

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Greta Garbo

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Meanwhile, over in Europe…

German Expressionism

1919-1926

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German Expressionism

• WWI creates an isolated Germany in financial ruin

• The new and booming film industry promises financial rewards

• Germany can’t compete with the glamour of Hollywood

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German Expressionism• External representation of internal emotion –

this means that if the main character is in a “dark place” emotionally, then the setting must reflect that

• Insanity/Obsession as a theme

• Crime or the criminal underworld

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German Expressionism

• Urban settings—but in a studio!

• Twisted architecture – such as spiral staircases and ominous arches

• Chiaroscuro – heavily contrasted black and white, whether with paint, or light and shadow


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