From Silents to Studios Post

From Silents to Studios Post

1)Explore how the inclusion of sound in the movie pictures impacted the Movie Industry. Detail how it happened, who was effected, what was lost. 
During the 1920's many film makers and corporations had not disagreed with the idea of using sound within a film. However, the first to experiment with this new element was the Warner Brothers in 1927 with their film  The Jazz Singer. The film used 354 words in total with also incorporating background music.  This had become a phenomenon, the public was excited to see this new development. People stood in lines all day to watch the film. This sparked a flame that changed film forever. Following this film came The Singing Fool, which also gained immediate success as well as money. From this point, major students who were at first reluctant, now began to build sound stages. After this advancement within couple years most movies were now "talkies". Despite this development in sound, it also had negative points, many actors who left the entertainment business and many musicians who were used for background music for a film were no longer needed. This also effected how the movie was shot, scenes with dialogue would have to be a very long boring shot because there was one microphone in which the actors had to in range of. The cameras were now also immobile because cameras had to be enclosed so sound from it would not be picked up from the microphone. 

2)The 20 years between 1930 and 1950 are generally recognized as the studio years. Describe what the pros and cons were of this factory system.
During the time period, 1930's to 1950's there were many pros. This included that film became more popular as well as it being invested in. Before films were watched on a bench that usually sat about 20 to 30 people, however this changed to large and more comfortable theaters, and theaters such as these began to spread all over and the number of over all theaters increased rapidly. In addition all of society could afford to see a movie. This entertainment and past time could be shared and enjoyed with not just by the wealthy, but by everyone. On the other hand there were also unfortunately cons during this time as well such as the oligopoly. Since the New York CEOs had controlled all major business decisions, they had shed control of the MPPC which caused powerful studios to have most of the power. Lastly block booking was also utilized, this continued to give power to major cooperation because they would tamper with the viewers chose in watching a film.