Introduction Robert James Lee Hawke was born on the 9th of December 1929 at Bordertown, South Australia. Robert Hawke was the 23rd prime minister of Australia, being in office for the longest period of time. He had been the Australian prime minister for eight years and has contributed immensely to the Australian society throughout his political career. As a prime minister, two of the most significant contributions he made were the Economic Summit of 1983 which produced a “Wages Accord” with trade unions and reforming the Australia’s education and training system. The accord improved economic growth with inflation and cut real wages.
BBBBBOOOOOOKKKKK The relationship between film and society continue in the 1930’s. With the start of the great depression came the start of the Breen Office. The Breen Office regulated films in the mid 1930’s and the movie makers decided to embrace the American Values the Breen Office was trying to stand for. Sklar states that this new sense of American Values in film helped to “boost the morale of a confused and anxious people by fostering a spirit of patriotism, unity and commitment to national values,” (3597).
Television was so influenced by American than between 1956 and 1963, the percentage of the American content screened grew up at 83% of the total from overseas. It led the young people to think as Americans and behave as Americans. In 1959, the most popular programmes were American. All that influence and the lack of Australian presence on the screen led the government to impose a local content quota within the television
The 1970s was a decade of change for Australia. Many issues were talked about including immigration, war, sexual morality, the role of women and the environment. Gough Whitlam had a huge role on shaping Australia and made some amazing changes. Whitlam was Australia’s prime minister from 1972 to 1975. During his time as prime minister he changed rights involving women’s equal pay and maternity leave as well as removing Australian troops from the Vietnam war, introducing free university education and lowered the voting age.
Citizen Kane is the life story of a powerful newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane. It is a fictionalized biography of the ruthless publishing baron, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). In actuality, the characters in the movie are composites, drawn from the lives of several famous American tycoons, but Hearst was the most obvious. Photography Gregg Toland, the cinematographer for Citizen Kane, considered the film the high point in his career & thought he might ‘learn something’ from the boy genius (Welles).
In today 's day and age, cinema has almost become synonymous with exfoliating shades of vibrant colours, satiating the lust of the mass populace. It has but sadly become a common belief, wherein a majority chunk of the movie aficionados consider the Monochromatic reel, or so to speak in layman 's language, black and white cinema as an outdated and ancient hindrance which has thankfully been replaced by colour. This notion is as jocularly hilarious as it is flawed. It is true, that with the birth of the colour motion picture process, Technicolour the slow and steady decline of monochromatic films started, but in no way did they become obsolete.
Drive-in movies are movies like no other. They brought a new meaning to going to the movies. Movies went from the tight crowded buildings with uncomfortable seats to lounging in your car with your friend, family, or significant other. That's how Drive-in theaters became revolutionary in the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Drive-in theaters became very popular for many reasons.
George Eastman once said “ What we do during our working hours determined what we have, what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.” Eastman was named after his father that started a mini business school that George would stay stay and observed his fathers teaching. By watching his father for a number of years, he gained the knowledge of running a business and therefore, allowing him to create his own. There was one day, when Eastman was older and planning to take a trip across the country and take pictures of everything and anything but the equipment was too heavy and tedious to set up. He never followed through with the trip but he did invest in all of the equipment.
Economic Conditions The United States was just returning from war, which had always been prosperous for the country. American household income was increasing, as well as consumer spending (“1950s TV TURNS ON AMERICA” 44). This era of prosperity was reflective in the types of films being produced. Production companies began moving from creating films that focused on the war to using more entertaining subjects.
Movies in the 1960s Movies in the 1960s have influenced movies today because they brought action movies to people’s attention. Musicals are movies with many songs in them, drama movies could be sad movies with possible happy endings, and action movies are movies that usually involve a hero with an enemy. Jaws was an action movie being made in the 1960s, but had a major aftereffect of influence to future action movies. Drama movies were very popular in the 1960s because of the mood set. Even though there were many drama movies based on the mood of the 1960s, occurring from the Vietnam War, there were many favored musicals.
“When I was 18 I was drugged and date raped. I just remember waking up with the guy on top of me with this weird grin. I didn’t think about the baby. I had to save up money, so I had to wait for the very last possible week. My best friend drove me.
This photograph was taken outside the old Odeon cinema in Bradford's city centre. I have put this here because it is a good example of what happens when you actually take something out that we would ordinarily consider to be and example of visual media. These spaces would originally have been for placing cinema posters advertising the latest films on offer at the cinema. But now this building is no longer used and it is over 15 years since it closed down. So, these spaces that used to have posters on them are now left blank.
As early motion pictures further developed, producers also realised that incorporating colourful artwork and hand drawn illustrations depicting scenes and paintings of leading actors from the movie contributed to theatre attendance rising. This is evidently featured in the first official talkie, The Jazz Singer’s movie poster. This trend was further continued in the late 20s early 30s as art deco was flourishing. Producers believed they should keep up with the current influential art movement using bold primary colours and geometrical designs.
Cinema has taken a long route to be perceived as a form of art. As any emerging concept, cinema undermined the established norms and received ambiguous feedback from viewers and critiques. The majority argued the status of cinema as a form of art. Various pundits and stakeholders raised concerns that the innovation ever had the right to exist. Nonetheless, others accepted the novelty as the new form of expression.
For my graphic novel, I choose to do a non-fiction piece on a brief history of film. Choosing this allowed me to get outside of my comfort zone, as well as possibly learn something new in the process. In the graphic novel, I first talk about the very origins of film: what the first motion picture machine was and what the very first “film” looked like and why it was made. Next I look at the films of the early 20th century. They started off very short, as before 1912, it was not common to use multiple reels of film to make a motion picture.
