Two different kinds of film history, proto and true history All movies up until the 1920s were

completely silent. Because they had no recorded sound doesn't mean the experience was silent. Often with the film the directors would include musical scores to accompany the onscreen action. When people watched movies there was almost always sound, it just wasn't included within the the film. Sometimes there would even be scripts to accompany the action onscreen in the form of dialogue. Homeless people would sometimes buy passage into nickelodeons in order to sleep in the theaters all day Films were black and white. Sometimes however, filmmakers would soak the film strip in dye in order to give it the sense of color. Some filmmakers also would dye separate portions of the films in different colors. They also would sometimes hand-tint individual frames Los Angeles became the movie capital in the US because: it had nice weather it had lots of available land for the production companies to buy lots of varied geographical locales once a couple of groups were there making movies the whole pool of talent began to congregate there Three big names in early filmmaking are: Edison known for invention, not for the art of filmmaking Lumiere brothers set the stage for documentary filmmaking Meliese first true fictional narrative filmmaker According to Aristotle, the plot of a dramatic work is important because it creates a cathartic experience for the audience (5 parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement) We see what the character does, we feel for that character, we see what happens to that character, but we don't have to experience the trauma that the character experiences, separated by the fourth wall Practically a religious experience for the ancient greeks who viewed the drama together as a community Different narrative forms in filmmaking We're so accustomed to the Aristotelian tragic narrative model that we struggle with different narrative models