Overview
Development of Film answer the following question
1. Discuss some of the “editing” ideas behind the Russian silent films such as Man With A Movie Camera and Battleship Potemkin.
2.Compare the comedic style of Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
3. Discuss some of the problems connected with the introduction of synchronized sound films.
4. Describe the two main sound systems of the 1920s, which are known as the Vitaphone process and sound on film.
5. Discuss the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s. What are some of the positives and negatives of the system.
6. Why did studios in Hollywood specialize in particular sound genres?
7. Discuss the use of sound in the film Citizen Kane.
8. Pick one scene from the film Citizen Kane and discuss the cinematography.
9. Discuss the films known as “pre-code” Hollywood and how they were able to avoid censorship.
10. What were some of the topics in films during the late 1930s which could not be depicted?