[Music] while World War I led to the decline of French Cinema it benefited American Cinema which took the first place in World Cinema for good the so-called Independents were very successful in adapting the methods of European Cinema the best directors with the best actors made spectacular featurelength films on well-known subjects beginning in 1914 they dominated the American Film market and established companies in Hollywood a small indigenous settlement of 200 inhabitants about 20 km outside
Los Angeles this was to become the capital of world Cinema the main genres of Cinema also emerged during this period the the first of these was the field of documentary films in particular Robert faher nuk of the north made in 1921 was an extraordinary Commercial Success Roy arms says the following about flarity in his book Cinema and realism Eskimos were more than just a subject for flarity the experience of life among these people who faced death every day and yet contined to display great joy
and dignity deeply affected flarity knowing that no white man could have survived in the north without the help of the eskimos he always recognized his debt of loyalty to them he always endeavored to involve them in film making not only as helpers but also as co-creators it has even been suggested that his approach to film making was more akin to Eskimo art than that of many famous film directors Eskimo Carvers do not attempt to give form to a piece of ivory that belongs to say a bear fish thei
r aim is to reveal or reveal the form that already exists in the material flarity has always tried to do something like this in his films to allow films to emerge naturally through his experience of people and [Music] environments in 1916 he returned from the north with a film about 70,000 ft long he began to edit it slowly and patiently he dropped a cigarette he was smoking on the film he was editing and the entire film burst into [Music] flames he didn't make this movie until he found a sponso
r in 1920 and it was only that year that he was able to go back to the north not only did he take two cameras with him but he also decided to wash print and show his film while it was being shot so he needed additional equipment flarity cast nanuk and three young men and their wives and children although flarity was interested in recording the real life of the eskimos he gave a certain order to the events he filmed nanuk and his friends were now involved in the trade in animal skins and no longe
r wore authentic Eskimo clothing he therefore made expenditures to find authentic types of clothing in terms of interior shots it was impossible for flarity to use a normal Igloo so nanuk spent several days building him a larger Igloo similarly the hunt had to be carefully orchestrated not with the idea of nanuk catching a real walrus but with the idea of flarity filming an exciting part of the movie therefore documentary as filmed by flarity is certainly not about scientific and objective recor
ding but rather a kind of game the eskimos pretended to live their normal lives but in reality Flare's arrival completely disrupted their way of life it was perhaps because of this disruption in their lives that many of the eskimos he came into contact with later suffered for example as long as 2 years later nanuk had starved to death even though his face and name were known all over the [Music] world the plot of the important 1934 film man of Aaron revolved around man's struggle with the sea a
shark hunt and a storm on the beach as the movie shows both themes were partly wrong the fisherman did not normally go out to see as they do in the movie flarity persuaded them in exchange for money and fame and the last shark had been caught on the island 50 years earlier in any case far from being as dangerous as the movie implies the Sunfish sharks of the Aaron Islands feed exclusively on Plankton nevertheless these scenes conveyed Flare's intended theme of man against the sea and added the t
ension that he used in his other films to add excitement to what would otherwise have been a dull account of real life as a director he created a series of effective and beautiful films as a Pioneer he not only invented a new form of Cinema an alternative to Holly would but he also imposed it on the industry and with nanuk succeeded in finding a worldwide audience for this new form the second area in which America excelled was comedy produced at Max Senate's Keystone studio and known as the Keys
tone comedies these films gave rise to such talents as Charlie Chaplan Harry Langdon Fatty Arbuckle Mabel Norman and Harold Lloyd Chaplan for example created the famous Charlo character in these comedies Charlie Chaplain knew very well what he wanted to do in cinema and knocked on the boss's door and said let me make the movies I want to make or I'm out of here Max Senate impressed by the conversation gives him a blank card taking advantage of this Freedom chaplain created The Immortal the littl
e fellow bowler hat small mustache tapered jacket pants that were too loose on his bated legs and big gashes that further accentuated his silly chicken gate in addition to his purely comic films Charlie Chaplan was unrivaled for his feature length and increasingly socially satirical films such as brat charot Pilgrim and the woman from [Music] Paris in the early 1920s 40 million Americans went to the movies every week the widespread influence of Cinema and the Jazz Age which manifested itself in
Hollywood in those years with materialism cynicism and sexual libertinism led to reactions for the control of films to prevent government interference producers formed the haze Bureau the motion picture producers and Distributors of America this Bureau determined what should not be done in movies or what should be paid attention to finally it decided that behaviors contrary to General values could be shown in films provided that the criminals were punished the director who benefited the most fro
m this opportunity was Cecil demill whose films on historical and contemporary themes were characterized by sexuality and violence and who drew attention with his flamboyant narration the the most eccentric director in Hollywood at the time was Eric Von stroheim who came from Austria stroheim who went against the established moral rules in his films and went beyond these boundaries drew the reaction of The Producers due to his contrary attitude and the fact that he spent a lot of money on sets a
nd costumes although his Works were appreciated by a wide audience in the last years of Silent Cinema the increasing monopolization of us Cinema and the first signs of the Great Depression led to the risk aversion of production companies and as a result Innovative filmmakers such as Griffith Senate Chaplan Katon and stroheim were less and less able to work with [Music] Studios ampas was founded at a time when the end of Silent Cinema was approaching and the demands of actors organizations were i
ncreasing with the aim of settling Utes within the film industry strengthening solidarity among workers and defending the rights of the industry immediately after its foundation the academy decided to establish an award to support creativity Cedric Gibbons sketched the design of a statuette to be awarded as a prize the statuette was a standing human figure symbolizing creativity The five-story Reel of film on which the figure stood emphasized the five majors of the academy the sculpture was real
ized by Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley it was cast in bronze and plated with 24 karat [Music] gold
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