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Where did dance originate from?
Myth/Ritual, Religion, Communication/Oral History.
Manual (Dance/Renaissance)
instructional guides
Two examples of Manuals
"Orchesography" -Thoinot Arbeau
"The English Dancing Master" -John Playford
Examples of Social Dance?
Schotish
Gavotte
Pavane – Similar to the Wedding March
Morris – “Running Step” danced only by men
Courante – 1st form of Waltz 1st time partners embraced
Ballet?
Created the Royal Academy of Dance in 1661

Appointed Pierre Beauchamps as “Superintendent of the King’s Ballet”

Believed responsible for standardizing the five foot positions of ballet
Example of Ballet?
Pierre Rameau – “The Dancing Master” (1725)

Formalized a vocabulary of ballet, and documented the foot positions.
What is the traditional ballet?
Narrative
Pas de Deux
a dance for two

Adagio -- the male dancer supports the ballerina in slow movements

Coda (or ending) -- the couple dance apart and then finally together with all their technical skill

Labanotation
Most well-known method for writing down dance movements today was created by Rudolf Laban
Isadora Duncan
(1877-1927) “The Mother of Modern Dance”
Martha Graham
(1894-1991) Firmly established modern dance as an accepted artistic form
Jazz dancing
evolved from a number of African rhythms, European folk dances, and the American jazz music of the 1920s.

Highly emotional
Tap
Like Jazz, Tap evolved in the early 20th Century from late 19th Century influences:

Buck-and-Wing – A fast style of dance done in wooden-sole shoes

Soft Shoe – Done in soft, leather shoes

In the 1920s, metal plates were added to the tips and soles of the leather shoes
Buck-and-Wing
A fast style of dance done in wooden-sole shoes
Soft Shoe
done in soft, leather shoes
Musical Theatre
a combination of all forms of dance
When was photography developed?
1835-1838
Eadweard Muybridge?
created the "Galloping Horses" in the late 1870s from a series of photographs to prove that horses at one point, have all four feet off of the ground.
Three devices created to try and make a moving picture
Mutoscope
Zeotrope
Kinetoscope
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895
Nickelodeons
Created by Marcus Loew

Arcades, storefronts and music halls converted to movie houses
"The Great Train Robbery"
Edwin S. Porter

1st Narrative Film.
1st Film shot out of chronological order.
1st Film to use parallel editing.
1st Film to use of panned
camera movement.
1st Western.
"Movie Palace"
1920s

seated thousands, included lounges, nurseries, hospitals, restaurants, full orchestras, royal architecture and furnishings
Examples of Movie Palaces
NY's ROXY THEATRE

“Grauman’s Chinese Theatre” (1927)

“Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre” (1922)

Chicago’s “Paradise Theatre” (1928)

San Antonio “Majestic Theatre” (1928)
"The Jazz Singer"
Silent picture with musical accompaniment on disc

"Vitaphone"

Four talking sections with synchronized dialogue
Viewers decreased after WWII, and they tried getting viewers back by what?
3D
“Sensurround”
Technicolor
Drive-Ins
Cinerama, Panavision, CinemaScope, etc. (Aspect Ratio)
Drive Ins affected what atmosphere and how?
Theme park atmosphere.

included restaurants, playgrounds, swimming pools, amusement parks, laundromats, motels, etc.
Why did drive ins popularity decline?
no air conditioning, real estate prices, suburbs, rising taxes, zoning regulations.
What was the standard color system?
Eastmancolor
Example of Special Effects?
"A Trip to the Moon" -George Melies ("Father of Movie Special Effects")

"King Kong"
Types of Special Effects?
Prosthetics

Composite Photography
Rotoscoping
A technique in which video or film images are placed in the background of a scene, one frame at a time, either manually or by computer automation.
Morphing
A continuous transformation from one keyframe or 3D model to another.
Guglielmo Marconi
1895 -- Credited with first radio transmission
Lee de Forest
1906 – Audion Tube
1908 – Wireless Broadcast of Human Voice
Examples of Serials
Mystery (The Shadow)
Westerns (Gunsmoke)
Detective (Green Hornet)
Comedy (Fibber McGee & Molly)
“Soap Operas” (Ma Perkins)
Philo T. Farnsworth
Credited with invention of television technology
Vladimir Zworykin
Developed competing technology
David Sarnoff
Broadcast pioneer
Named head of RCA
Later became head of NBC
What was formed when NBC was forced to sell one of its networks – bought and led by Edwin Noble?
ABC
What was NBC, ABC, and CBS known as?
The Big Three
Affiliate System
a broadcast station with an exclusive agreement with a specific network in which the affiliate airs only programming from the network in return for programming content.