UNIVERSITY SANTO TOMAS

FILM HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES

EDISSON BAUTISTA CETINA

JUAN DIEGO GALINDO

ANDRES AFRICANO

INGLES

AÑO

2020
The American film: This industry is considered with a high technical level, this and the

efficiency of its commercial and distribution network will foreseeably continue to maintain

its dominant position in the world

market in the future. The American

film industry has had a profound

effect on cinema around the world

since the early 1900s. Its history is

sometimes divided into four main

periods: the silent era, classic Hollywood cinema, the new Hollywood, and the

contemporary period (from 1980).

START: The first public screening of a film in the United States took place in 1896 in New

York. The projector had been developed by inventor Thomas Alva

Edison, whose company was also the producer of the short films. The

paternity of American fiction cinema is often attributed to Edwin S.

Porter, who in 1903 used an innovative montage technique in the movie

"8 Minutes Assault and Robbery of a Train".

SOUND CINEMA: With the introduction of sound cinema in the late 1920s, new film

genres emerged: screens became dominated by musicals (with

numerous dance movies, most notably by Busby Berkeley) and

gangster films.

HOLLYWOOD: In early 1910, director D.W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company

to the west coast with his company. They began

filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in

downtown Los Angeles. The company explored

new territories and traveled several miles north of a small town. This place was called

"Hollywood".

THERE ARE SOME EVENTS:

 The federal intervention that separated the production of films from their exhibition in

theaters; and the invention of television.

 Its considerable economic success and its intersection with popular culture restored

the commercial viability of independent cinema. Since then, the independent film

industry has been defined more clearly and with more influence in American

cinema.

 New Hollywood is a term used to describe the emergence of a new generation of

directors educated in film schools and who have absorbed the techniques created in

Europe in the 1960s.

BIBLIOGRAFIAS:

https://www.ecured.cu/Cine_de_Estados_Unidos

http://cine.astalaweb.net/Documentos/El%20cine%20estadounidense.asp

https://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications-spanish/EJ-

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