JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Film

This link shows the trends of the international and U.S/Canada statistics, very helpful for projecting future market trends Big thanks to Teng for the link to mpaa.org!

Really good visuals for how much the movie industry makes and how common they are.

The idea of the theater began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Guthrie and two colleagues who were disenchanted with Broadway.

An article about the Future of Film by lori Kozowski

Talks mostly about the technology and the cost.

Interview about how technology is changing and where they think its going.

This article talks about the future of the movie theater and where they foresee it going.

This is saying how movie theaters wont just be a rectangle in a dark room.

Talks about how hard it is to compete with New Mexico and other popular state filming sights cause of Las Vegas's taxes and other things

Good info on piracy and how it effects the film industry

Movie purchasing site/storage site for your movie collection bought through them

Picture for the Business section

1875 at Palo Alto, California, Le Prince saw a series of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge, and he was attracted to the idea of producing a series of photographs motion pictures.

This talk about George Eastman. He is the first person to developed the first roll film.

The link shows the history of Zoetropes. There's also a video on how it worked and when it was used.

This tell what is a zoetrope and this also tell the contribution of zoetrope to film.

"Thaumatropes are the first of many optical instruments developed to study persistence of vision. They typically consist of a cardboard disc with thread attached on the left and right sides. On each side of a round piece of card stock is a picture, painting or illustration. The images are designed and placed so that when the disc is spun by rolling the threads back and forth between the fingers and thumbs. The faster the disc is spun back and forth, the more the two pictures appear as one!"

This article talk about Roberson who was one the person that help make the magic lantern.

Clips on different actors and how they did things differently.

Another good site to take pictures off of.

Important paper on the history of tech and film development.

Challenges that movie theaters need to overcome to be able to thrive in the future

In-depth about Hollywood's past

More ideas about what could happen in the future and also talks about imax