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a technical view of film history. - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Modern Times
        
        Charlie Chaplin made this film in opposition to the talkies, and a critic of the capitalism of movie studios, using integrated sound for voices only for people such as the factory owner. this image shows said factory owner commanding his worker to get back to work. having the owner as the only one with a voice makes connections to people with power drowning out the voices, and in the case of Modern Time, the rights of workers and the less fortunate.
      - The Jazz Singer
        
        the first movie with integrated dialog, starting the era of the talkies. it's great that one of the first lines ever spoken in the movies was "you ain't heard nothing yet", because audiences actually had not heard anything spoken in cinema before.
        
        in addition to marking the start of the talkies, The Jazz Singer was also one the first musicals. a theme of movie that would lead to what has been called the greatest movie musical of all time Singing in the Rain, which contains something similar to live music and sound effects, lip syncing. https://youtu.be/-wI4jJq98tU?si=QaoXvvJ2TT1f3aGY
- - - - I don't believe that this scene would be allowed under the code, because it may lower the moral standards of the audience, as well as suicide being illegal at the time, meaning that the main character that we are rooting for is committing a crime, which is against the code which states "No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil, or sin." as quoted by Britannica.
    - - producers still managed to find someway to circumvent some of the code's rules by pitching scenes far more against the code at first and submitting revisions less against the code after, like a kind of production blackmail. In this scene when first pitched the character would have had to admit to being black to save a black man she accused of rape from being lynched.
      - a story about a woman starting her own business, and giving her the power on screen though her independence.
        
        women in film
    - - made pre code this movie was able to contain elements that might be considered against code, with the mixing of gender rolls as Joan is soldier and dresses in men's clothes, and the character of Joan who we are rooting for being at odds with the church as shown above, both of which might be seen as sinful at the time.
      - this movie is very experimental with its shot types
- - - - the film is all one shot but this image shows how depth was used in film to give the shot less of a theater feel, before camera movements became widely used. even though this is one of the earliest films we looked at it is already setting itself apart from theater, by using angles that would not be possible for theater, which would have been one of the most popular forms of live media at the time.
    - - this film has a very stage like feel to it, as shown in this image all the action happens left to right with minimal use of depth. it really reflects the type of entertainment popular at the time.
    - - this film showcases a plethora of different shots, it has many shot sizes from close ups to wide landscape shots, as well as many different camera movements like pans tilts and tracking shots. it really shows how far the use of the camera to tell the story has come in such a short time.
      - the sound for these films would have been performed live
- - - - this film was made pre code and contained subjects that would be against it, and though there were complaints about it at the time, there were no rules against it.