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Let's not overstate. Kane's boyhood removal from his family in order to be filthy rich was an enviable fate for many other children in the US who were starving and/or having to go to work in dangerous fields, like mining. It was only a 'tragedy' because Kane was a narcissist that always had to look for excuses to explain to himself his own unhappiness.

This is the best explanation of why Citizen Kane is considered such a great film that I’ve seen. Thanks!

You’re so consistent with great content!

The Coffee example seems to be both Mystery and Suspense in one pot

Thanks great information, and of course sound films (movies) ruined the careers of many actors,through "Odd" sounding voices or strong accents,, But didn't Laurel & Hardy master the art of the "talkies"It's almost like the invented sound comedy.

4:06 One of the few examples of deep-focus where the focal planes are equally bright. Maybe a coincidence, 5:52 or the staging you refer to. 7:26 Reverb in sound design always emphasizes distance, 7:21 and is often created by it.

I love the phallic ending as the "train" pushes INTO the "Tunnel"... Ah Hitch... a little naughty and a lot of talent

love the content and the subject but pwease work hawdew to wooze the awistocwatic Bwitish pwonunciation of your "R"s which, to these 'merkin ears, distracts from your worthy insights. Ironically Mr. Sturges would likely have had a field day with this diction pitfall (he might well have dug Michael Palin's Monty Python comic take had he lived longer), but you'll hear no trace of this affectation emanating from the memorable mouths of Eric Bloore or Robert Greig 85 years ago, even when the Windsors had only relatively recently changed the family name. Then again, if we preserve the royal kowtow imperative, there's Barthelonan Ethpañol fwiw...just sayin'!

Great video essay! Really interesting topic and I typically avoid tv shows for many of the reasons covered. Another issue with even the more episodic shows like The Office is Flanderization. Early episodes feel much more based in reality and a lot of comedy comes from the tension of this realism. Season 2 and 3 are probably the sweet spot for most people because there is still enough tension for the comedy to work while the show takes on a more comfortable sitcom feel. This degrades pretty fast as more and more absurdity makes it feel like there are no real stakes and I don’t think it’s possible to come back from that. So, even The Office should have ended much sooner.

I notice four years ago posted... but, I just saw it. Your take, your analyses, excellent. I am as old as the mountains and grew up watching these films. None today are remotely close to Hitchcock films.

What's the movie at 3:32??

Very insightful and interesting! ❤ Hitchcock films SO much!👍👍💡🎬🎥📽️

And then Ronald Colman talked in "Bulldog Drummond" in 1929 and no one else sounded as good as him in any subsequent "talkie."

I have to watch this for homework and what the hell is my teacher doing what is this video help me help me hlpe emem

Thank you so much for this!!

The audiences during the silent era were becoming experts at lip reading. “ The Jazz Singer” caused a sensation. Silent movies, including “ Wings”, were still being made and shown. It was “Lights of New York” that started the panic. 😮

One reason some early talkies look off-center today is they were originally shot with the sound on a record, separate from the film. That was the process used in "The Jazz Singer." When these films were later reissued with the sound printed directly on the film, as became the later standard, one-ninth of the image had to be removed to make room for the soundtrack. And instead of centering the image, the studios' technicians merely sliced off one-ninth of the image from the left side, wrecking the original compositions and turning the entire movie off-center.

Casual Blackface is so crazy

Comedies basically have to be episodic. Because all those problems with serialized dramas are way worse with serialized comedy. Instead of teying to ratchet up the drama, they have to up the ante with the humor, and briing THAT to a satisfying conclusion. I think that's why South Park went back to more episodic after expermineting with serialized seasons. And combine that with doing topical humor in their case. Arrested Development straddled the line really well. There was a long story arc each season, but the narration and editing style of the show made it easy to keep people up to speed. They never had to a "Previously on Arrested Development" because they'd just have Ron Howard be all "Michael and G.O.B were in Mexico, searching for their fugitive father, George Sr, believed to be on the run with his assistant, Kitty." Intercut with shots from previous episodes. It's perfect.

How dare you criticize national treasure. That movie is... a national treasure.

in alot of early talkies you will notice actors grouped in the center of the stage / frame when they speak that is due to a fixed mic being above them

Sunrise has a multi-layered soundtrack

You managed to keep to video instructional and technical while managing to allow a layman (me) to understand the relevance of the film. Thanks

Excellent video, though I would urge replacing the scene where the orchestra members have black face. Yikes.

The music in Breathless is so good and helps so much to create the atmosphere of the movie. But no one talks about it.

Buster Keaton was excellent at making the transition into talking pictures. His problem was that he was a terrible businessman, and his inability to film within a set budget made him lose his studio just when talkies were taking over.

Great video!

These films used to scare me so much when I was a kid. The images just looked so frightening. I appreciate them now as an adult.

This is a nice illustration of the influence of the New Wave on Scorsese, but some of your examples are confusing or incorrect, particularly the ones that are supposed to illustrate the jump-cut. "Shoot the piano-player," for example, edits together different shots that repeat part of the action, with the purpose of extending the movement of the finger towards the doorbell, to suggest hesitance. That's a form of repeat cut, not a jump cut. Likewise, in the clip from the opening of "Mean Streets," Scorsese does not "time the jump cuts to the music"-first of all because there are barely 3 cuts in that clip, and none of them matches the beat of the music; but also because, there are no jump cuts whatsoever in what you showed. There is one cut that disrupts traditional continuity, when Keitel rests his head on the pillow twice (the second time from at a slightly different angle), but that's a "repeat cut" or "stutter cut," which is the opposite of the jump cut. A jump cut is a noticeable interruption of a continuous take, that gives the impression that part of the take has been cut out.. A simple cut to a shot that shows a different portion of the same space, from a different angle, is not a jump-cut.

awesome explanation

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vce drama anyone?

Back then you could mix in a rudimentary way. In "The Canary Murder Case" from 1929, for example, which was half-finished and then made into a sound film, Louise Brooks' vocals were overdubbed. The animated film “Finding His Voice” from 1929, which explains the technology at the time, is interesting in this context.

D.W. Griffith’s “Abraham Lincoln” (1930) was a movie that suffered from all of the problems mentioned in this video

I recall some of the silent stars claiming that "the talkies killed the movies" & this has been a thought of which has pervaded my mind. To think soviet montage theory was concieved soo shortly to the invention of sound & the fact that after sounds popularity studios began to hire theater directors whom of which knew little to none about the filmic medium makes you think of the potential of silent films if sound had been prolongued by even just 2-3 years. 1927 (when the jazz singer was released) is deemed by many as one of the best years for silent cinema (metropolis, wings, sunrise, napoleon)... It may be strange to think that people once concidered the death of film to be sound when nowadays most attribute it to marvel & sequals (such opinions have validity), yet people were making such opinions 100 years ago with technology we intereract with everyday.

I don't think Chaplin failed. Have you seen The Great Dictator

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Lovely, thank you

Fantastic, essay, sir! You have a new & grateful subscriber.

I wonder if the sloppy sliding of the tennis player's feet indicates he's not only going to be a clever tennis player but a slippery but good character...

3:52 what is the name of this film?

why we gotta do national treasure dirty like that

That movie was 25 years ahead of its time.

fantastic video. thank you!

Great video.

good video the black face caught me a little off guard

It's hard to image an orchestra being on the set of a film, how far we have come.

The frames of early talkies have the edges cut off because initially early talkies were sound on disc. That system did not work very well, so by the end of 1930 movies had switched to sound on film, with the soundtrack on the edge of the film strip. This required the edge of the picture being cut off.

Hello. This is such a fine look at Hitchcock’s technique that the single error I find puzzles me terribly, because it’s very clear that the hand carrying the coffee cup in Notorious is no prop. Did I misunderstand you? Thanks!

The early sound era was the best era of film until the 1970s. The 1940s and 1950s produced nothing but garbage for low IQ viewers since they were censored by idiots. But I can see how that pathetic era would appeal to low IQ democrats who loved censorship