The Golden Age of Hollywood: Crash Course Film History #11

you talk fast for someone who is not native English speaker. but i am thankful to u for these videos …

I know this is already three years old, but someone needs to point out that Mr. Benzine leaves out the most common film aspect ratio used for fifty years (pre-digital), while incorrectly asserting that most movies were made in the widescreen/anamorphic/2.35:1 aspect ratio. This is simply not true. That shape (and the lenses it requires) was reserved for spectacles and big action films (with slightly bigger budgets), while all the dramas and comedies (constituting the majority of studio releases) were being made in the most common aspect ratio of all, the one that's never mentioned here: 1.85:1. Early on Benzine refers to 16:9, but not only is this a term that was never referred to before the late nineties/early 2000s, its equivalent is 1.77:1, which is not a film format at all. It is, however, close enough to 16:9 that movies shot in 1.85:1 either lose a little bit of image on the right and left, gain a very thin letterbox top and bottom, or (say it ain't so!) get slightly squeezed. But given the dominance of 1.85:1 material out there, it strikes me as bad form to never mention it.

Where did yo buy the inventions or the toys of cinema 🎬🎞📽📹🎥???

You talk about the golden age of Cinema and you say nothing about the universal monster movies

How come you show film strips as "horizontal" at 5:55 and 7:56? Wasn't it just VistaVision that ran the film stock horizontally through the camera? And shouldn't you say the "point" when you refer to 2.55:1 and 2.35:1 aspect ratios (at 8:04 and 8:20)?

I stopped watching when you tried to be funny.

That little animation from "Carmen Jones" at 8:35 lol 😂

idk why i pay tuition when i have youtube

What about the Hayes code? Doesn't that start at this point?

I too am a visual learner so appreciate the illustrations and visuals.

Wowww , they wya you recapped man, that’s fuxking amazing teaching right there

Ah so that's why YouTube so popular

No mention to Guillermo Camarena?

What about universal studio

Am I watching a micro-machines commercial?

Just a slight correction, Technicolor was actually replaced in the 50s with 1 roll color film, that uses 3 layers of color/light sensitive material on 1 role, not 3 separate ones. Which would mean that you can put it in the same camera as you use for black and white film, which was waaaay smaller than a Technicolor camera. And THAT technology was used until digital.

I love looking at the history of Hollywood. Thanks for sharing!

I dont think their backs did hurt bcs of a certain ratio

8:35 CARMEN JONES YES! 😍

This is the fastest way to learn. Great work

I play all these videos at .75 and sometimes craig sounds high but most of the time i understand more.

I wonder if this will be a part of art history in a couple hundred years

methinks this foolish fellow may not be as knowledgalbe in the cinamatic arts as he claims – Homer out =(8^(|)

I think the 70s and 80s should be called "the golden age", all the best movies came out in those decades. all the classics and big franchises. it's like movies peaked in the 70s and 80s.

Interesting! Would it be possible to have access to the script in order to work on this in English class?

what about Columbia pictures?? I know they made the stooges shorts….. but were they not a competing studio??

0:53 4th man on the right in the cinema line looks like Will Wheaton

5:37

cool guy

What happened to Columbia Picture Studios who produced such hits as: ' Born Yesterday', ' Picnic' and 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. They also had mega star's: William Holden, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford under contract???