The Silent Era: Crash Course Film History #9
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- The Silent Era of Hollywood set a lot of things into motion in terms of how movies were made and sold. Big stars were one of the main ways studios tried to make their movies stand apart from one another and get the public to make choices at the cinema. But, this also gave a lot of power to those stars to command a lot of money. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, we take a look at the Silent Era of Hollywood and people like Charlie Chaplin.
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Weird bit of historical perspective: While all this was going on, the Ottoman Empire was still a thing.
Dammmm
i opened this video with my speakers unplugged and thought i was being ironically trolled for two minutes >:(
Fun fact the actor Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. Because of other famous people with that name he dropped Douglas took the name Keaton from the great Buster Keaton whom he held in high regard. No relation.
If any of you guys are interested in the golden age of Hollywood in general, I *highly* recommend the podcast You Must Remember This, especially the series of episodes about Louis B. Meyer (one of the founders of MGM) and The Blacklist era (McCarthy, the Red Scare, etc.)
Co-sign.
- Nick J.
CrashCourse , it be fun if you did a series about music history 🎵🎶🎼
argella1300 wonder if you went to the same class as me. Suggested the same thing.
Poor Roscoe Arbuckle. Not only was he acquitted, but the jury of the third trial apologized to him for what he'd been through. It didn't matter, though, because his career in front of the camera was finished. The really sad part of the story of Roscoe Arbuckle, though, is that he was actually poised for an on-screen comeback, but died just a day or so after finding out that it was going to happen.
Incidentally, this year marks the 100th anniversary of Buster Keaton making his first movies.
I thought I wouldn't like Crash Course film history, but this has been one of my favorite courses and all of the videos are really interesting so far. Keep up the good work guys!
Thanks so much! This has been a real labor for us and it's great to hear feedback like this :)
- Nick J.
Good :)
I know all of these Silent Film actors because of Turner Classic Movies. I always love watching Silent Sunday's on TCM. Harold Loyd, Charlie Chaplain, and Buster Keaton are my all time favorite comedic actors along with The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges
Natasha Romanof you should watch Laurel and Hardy! So funny lol
The thing I love about crash course is the amount of detail they put into every video. I have a feeling that I've seen vids on cinema history where this would be in the first episode, here it's number 9! Good job!
I hope crash course film history covers Mae West. Considering that we are going to cover censorship in film in future episodes.
The censorship back then hated her guts, and that hate only made Mae West more popular.
I got two good reasons to like Mae West.
Crash Course with Craig = Win!
I'd really been looking forward to this episode since the beginning of Crash Course Film History! There's so much to talk about.
It's too bad Buster Keaton didn't get a bigger role in the episode. If you do an episode on movie stunts, I hope he gets a little more spotlight. Watching that scene where the front of a building falls and just barely misses him always blows my mind.
Major movies talked about:
A Trip to the Moon
The Birth of a Nation
The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari
Metropolis
Battleship Potemkin
Have I missed any?
I love this series! I'm actually in an Art 101 class right now for generals, and we started learning about film history just after this series started! We watched "A trip to the Moon" and "The Gold Rush" (Charlie Chaplin) It's just been really cool to learn about it, so thank you!
crashcourse gives me life
PETA FINALLY STOPPED THE EAGLE PUNSHING
it’s punching.
Just binged this series, so excited to see the upcoming episodes!
I'm quite surprised by the chose timeline. The Jazz Singer is from 1927 and the Hays Code doesn't really start getting applied before 1933/1934. So that's quite weird that you chose to speak of the later first, since by 1930 virtually all silent films had stopped (except for Chaplin of course).
Well, Modern Times and The Great Dictator were actually sound films, but they did bring the best of the Vaudeville and Silent actions.
Garland41 Modern Times, in particular, was still constructed like a silent movie, dispensing with all dialog (with a few exceptions delivered not directly by the characters, but via electronics in the setting).
as always, interesting, instructive and fun! thank you guys! :)
Soooooo the eagle survives today?
could you please make one about Silent Comedy! i need it sooo much! thanks for making these, you're awesome!
I have my film test next week and this is perfect and much easier to organize in my head than the book!
The Hay's Code, a bad idea or the worst idea in Film?
worst for sure, those pre-code movies have always been a favorite of mine
Really loving this series😍
Craig, as you wrap up this crash course series, can you please do a bonus video of behind-the-scenes how crash course is made? That is, if this course eventually gets to TV and UA-cam.
Underrated channel ! :D
Soooooo now I have to wait another week for the next episode? :(
These are so good!
Interesting as always
It's okay Craig I'm not stable or efficient either XD
Charlie Chaplin floating on screen at 5:12 made me laugh so hard.
This made me think one of my favorite comedies; Singing in the Rain. :D
8:00
I heard that film makers got around a lot of the Hay's codes restrictions by making films about Bible Stories. The Bible is actually filled with a lot of sex, vice, and violence, particularly in less commonly talked about stories, such as the tales of Samson. Normally the sex, vice, and violence would have been a Hay's code violation, but as it was sourced from the Bible it was seen as inheriently more moral and was given a pass.
OH MY GOD HE DIDN'T PUNCH THE EAGLE I'M SO TRIGGERED AAAAAAAAA
Why does he punch the eagle? I've been trying to work this out since the first episode.
The Eagle-punching gag started back in Crash Course Government, another unit hosted by Wheezy Waiter. I think it originally started out as an accident, but they thought it was funny and kept it in and then repeated it ad-nausea, WAY past the point it wasn't funny anymore. With enough repetition, any joke can become annoying stupid, like Chinese Water torture. I applaud the fact he didn't punch the eagle this time, it was REALLY getting on my nerves.
Thanks, mate. It was really starting to mess with my head. ha ha.
I was so distracted waiting for the eagle punch, I had to watch it all over again. Now I need to sneeze or something...
Joe Stallings same!
Would love an episode dedicated to Buster Keaton! Great video though :)
0:09 Good news, guys! Bennifer is a thing again! 😄
The side notes are the absolute best.
"I'm 36... I bet... I better get moving"
Finally! Craig didn't punch the eagle!
Oh Hollywood as someone who works there it best described as. . .Grime and glitter.
Wow. I was thinking a little more time needed to be devoted to silents. Got all the time in the world for talkies.
Will you be at some point discussing the foundation and history of the AMPAS and how award shows affected the filmmaking industry (for better or worse)?
Harold Loyd's movies were the inspiration behind Clark Kent's persona.
Thank you for setting up your chess board correctly. I can name 10 films where they set the board up sideways including The Seventh Seal!
I saw one of the examples of German expressionism today, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Tubi TV
One or two words about how silent movie portrayed dialogues through transitional writings on screen, wouldn't have hurt. Or maybe in the next episode.
Damn, no mention of Niles in Fremont, CA. Where Chaplin filmed some of his early movies. 😢
Hooray! No Eagle-punching gag. That gag was seriously old and he finally dropped it.
You do videos on the greatest films of the silent era, and the actors, actresses, & directors. How about every single decade???
Mark Garcia it's going in chronological order
a crash course music theory would be really cool
No mention of Tower of Terror becoming the new Guardians ride? I'm shocked.
You should done some silent movie gag in this video. Cut to black and white and you run around frantically pointing to things
5:50 Pretty much what I think everyday before I do absolutely nothing.
This is a well-thought piece. I read a similar book that became a key to unlocking my potential. "The Silent Bridge: Echoes of the Unspoken Past" by Emma Wick
...and the rest is history,that sums it all up.
What about the bald eagle punch? :O
Glad to see Craig didn't punch the eagle.
buti pa kayo meron saaming bansa kung di lng sumalakay mga hapon di sana may naitago pa ring Philippine movie by Jose Nepomuceno like Dalagang Bukid 1919 a silent film too
Can you cover a course on the evolution and history of acting and sci-fi? Thank you
I don't know about a course in acting. We'll talk a little about how acting had to change with the advent of sound and at a couple other points in cinema. There's a ton to talk about there but it's not something we could really do a whole series on yet.
As far as sci-fi? We could do a whole series on Science Fiction, but it's not in this course. We'll be doing a couple episodes of Film Criticism on some sci-fi (like 2001) so I hope you enjoy those :)
- Nick J.
CrashCourse Thank you very much for thinking about it and giving your thoughts. I really love your way of teaching and I learn a lot from you . Thank you for sharing your knowledge. - M. Costa
CrashCourse Sci-Fi Lit would be interesting 8) From Mary Shelly to Suzanne Collins
Where was Inceville? Between Pacific Palisades and Topanga Beach I see.
And then, There was silence........You just had to go there, didn’t you?!
Now I get why I feel weird watching this series: Craig barely ever blinks on camera. Don't get me wrong, I like the series but damn...
UGH, Roscoe Arbuckle, please... He hated the nickname "Fatty," and his friends never used it. Calling him that makes me cringe.
From the look of movies like Sin City, 1984 and others, I'm guessing that the Hays Code didn't last very long
I can not wait until you get to the point where you have to talk about Kubrick, Kurosawa and Scorsese.
贼强
10/10 series
What about animation?
We're going to START talking about animation next week with the advent of sync sound.
- Nick J.
CrashCourse like when max fleischer created the first sound cartoons called" out of the inkwell"?(by the way, huge fan)
Make sure u don't say Walt Disney had first synchronised sound film, coz they lied, it was the eastern producer Max Fleischer
I'd like to imagine that one of those upvotes comes from Thought Café, going: "Yeah! What about OUR craft?"
Zackeryeh Jamal Wahid Salloum No, Fleischer produced the first cartoon with synchronized sound. Synchronized sound in film was first done almost as soon as the medium was invented, and first done by Dickson and Edison before 1900.
The "distance from Thomas Edison" line was hilarious, but is it just a joke, or was it a legitimate reason?
Mateo Gg it was real. In the first episodes of this series they talk about how Edison was trying to held the industry using patents
ToT ids freakin' awesome!
Are you guys gonna cover Film noir?
Make crash course animation!!!
So I'm guessing he'll feature The Jazz Singer for the next episode.
another studio that rose to prominence during that time was universal pictures
Good old MGM
If you are going to talk about film in the early 20th century there should be mention of the whole breaking of social norms set by older generations going on. You talked about the Hays code but never mentioned some of the movies that came before that code that couldn't be made after.
Tovah Gladstone well said! Suggested watch list would incluuude...?
A Crash Course on Theater History/Criticism would be a great lead-in/supplement to this course in the future.
I'm disappointed you made no mention of the Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio case of 1917. In that decision, the US Supreme Court declared that film had no right to First Amendment protection, because film was considered only a "business." That threw the medium of film to the censor wolves and made the Production Code all but inevitable for decades until 1952 when the decision was overturned in Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson (aka The Miracle Decision) in which the Supreme Court declared the film was entitled to protection under the First Amendment.
Bennifer are the thing again now. :D
Movies were movies were movies when I ran the show!
"A seismic event was poised to shake up Hollywood, and not every film-maker of Hollywood was going to come out the other side with their career intact."
This was the 1930's, right? They must be talking about World War 2. What event could possibly compare to that war in scale?
"Synchronized sound."
...Fair point.
Exact same thought process had by me lol
other than charlie chaplin, which actors did you guys know from that list?
All of them.
I remember cosplaying as Charlie Chaplin for school once...
...The Texas Education system is garbage...
The eagle survives!!!
Cecile B. DeMille?
please tell me one line is not all they are going to give to cecile b demille. he was one of the defining directors of film history, second only to Spielberg in overall importance. it would be a great disservice to film history.
You can't go on without talking about Bunuel or Bergman
We're going to do episodes about Scandinavian film and "Experimental" film.
- Nick J.
please can you make russian or Ukrainian subtitles for videos about biology, anatomy ,A&P, astronomy, physics, chemistry
But Tower of Terror is gone!!! 😭😭😭😭
another interesting way silent films for away with vice on screen is if it was in a biblical context. If the story was about Sodom and Gomorrah, Adam and Eve, or Samson and Delilah - you could be there would be some raunchy scenes that escaped censorship
Can we get a Music Crash Course please?
Lon Chaney
synchronous sound.... OHHHHHHHH
You ain't heard nothing yet!
Well, this one was really depressing....
WHERES THE FALCON PUNCH?!?!
Cb4S 619 it's an eagle, you moron!!!1!!1
NO! No more eagle punch, that gag was only funny the first couple times back in Crash course government and has just been annoying ever since. I'm glad it's finally gone.
You didn't punch the eagle
I want too stroke Craig's beard
When you get to the animation episode if you will, Please ask thought cafe to animate a little Bendy the Ink Demon! Like if you agree
wow you have not punched the eagle today
early squad where u at?
Chaplin founded UA?
whaaaaaaa???????
I like to think of it as "Co-Founded" but, yes.
- Nick J.
ya, sorry...forgot to put in the "co-" there
:)
the sad thing about hollywood where they fled for that are they now