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The1942 classic film opens with the sound of the French singer La Marsellaise singing their national anthem. Then the vision of a spinning globe crosses the screen. Shortly after you hear the sound of a male voice narrator explaining the great significance of the city Casablanca in the French ruled Morocco. Many people want to break free of the dangers of Europe to escape to America .However, the popular outlet of departure was Lisbon and getting to Lisbon was no easy task, so many people made…

Lone Survivor is one of the movies that teaches strong lessons that can change lives and learn different things. When watching the movie, the beginning could be boring, but if you keep watching it starts to get series. This movie follows to a true story, a story that will never be forgotten and mostly be remembered for what they did to protracted us. The kind of movie that Lone Survivor is, is an american war film, basically it’s a non-fiction movie meaning it happened in real life. The main…

Hollywood hit its peak in 1946 and was on top of the world. However, a series of events after that, such as, the United States vs Paramount Anti-Trust Act, the suburbanization of America, the loss of foreign revenues, McCarthyism, and television, brought the industry to its knees. The soaring profits of the Golden Era were no longer as grand as they once were. Revenues fell to half their 1946 levels ("Post-war Hollywood," 2014). The anti-trust act broke up the distribution and exhibition…

The studio system consisted of a small number of major studios (Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and RKO) during the first decade of the 20th Century. The studio system, according to Barsham and Monahan 5th Edition the classical Hollywood studio system the actors’ box office appeal depended on their ability to project a screen image that audiences would love and aspire to look like. These actors were then signed to a studio which allowed them the opportunity to have…

It is no secret that climbing the ladder to success in any industry can be challenging. As we look at the Paramount Studios, we begin to understand the road to what some may call the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Paramount films one of the top conglomerates in the film industry and was by far one of the most resilient studios to survive a time of great uncertainty. There were some crucial decisions that needed to be made to aid in the company’s success not just for Paramount Studio but also in…

The Fox Film Corporation was formed in 1915 by William Fox, a pioneer of several chain theaters and the producer of many American motion pictures. Making films was a secondary option brought on by the need for financial stability during the Great Depression so before Fox even made the giant leap into films, he used his entrepreneurship skills to acquire and build many theaters. The first couple of theaters were set up in New Jersey before Fox was sent to HollyWood to oversee some projects. It…

Job # 5017 Jerry Lewis Was funny alone as well in the comedy acts with Dean Martin. They became stars on stage and behind the camera. The comedic duo has had a long history together when they started working as performers at the 500 Club. These young adult actors worked their way up during classic Hollywood. Black and white film was the norm and male comedy duo’s like Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis were all the rage. Lewis and Martin would eventually split making appearances…

How did Paramount get to where it is today? There may be some things that you may not even have known about this company and what it was doing. At one point Paramount was part of the “Big Five” studios. The “Big five studious were at its highest peak during the Golden Age of Hollywood. They were profiting on film making like there was no competition. This was possible due to block booking. They were selling a really good film that had an assortment to the bundle some of them being good and some…

The film starts with two police stating that two german officers were murdered on a train heading to Casablanca. The murderer asks Rick Blaine to hold the papers he had stolen from the officers. Rick Blaine runs a nightclub and in the beginning of World War I. The nightclub has become a safe place for refugees looking to escape to America. One day Rick’s rival Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa, Rick’s true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris, show up in the nightclub. Rick is very…

Casablanca as a film pioneered many cinematic techniques and aspects of film, used acting techniques that hadn’t been used previously such as by Stanislavski’s method, and utilized technical aspects of film rarely used previously, and only used in “big budget” films of the day like “Metropolis”. Casablanca used cinematic techniques that had rarely been used before, such as tracking shots, lighting based on day and night, and close-ups. The film has actors channeling genuine emotion rather than…