Classic Hollywood Cinema

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Through public interest, advancements in technologies and story-telling techniques, an industry grew and a culture was formed around the medium known as film. Within the following essay the phrase "a culture of viewing" is explored with reference to the technical innovations of film processing, the development of film culture and the transformation of film entertainment during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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"Photography, a nineteenth century scientific invention, has like many other technical innovations of the era "dramatically altered mankind's perception and experience of the world, "an effect that continues to this day" (Museum Ludwig Cologne 1996). The invention of photographs defines the beginning of the modern era due to the effects it had on new systems of representation including cinema. The ability and need to create and reproduce photographs ourselves has created a virtual reality that has become an inescapable part of our modern era (Museum Ludwig Cologne 1996). The invention of photography as we know it in the modern world today is one which not one person can solely be praised for as many generations have been involved in its perfection (Davis 1975, p.1). The concept behind photography is the "camera obscure". Latin for "dark chamber", and was a room or box with a small opening or lens in one side which was known to the ancient world as early as Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci in the fourth century B.C. (Meggs 1998, p.135)."

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