The Golden Age of Hollywood
Big movie studios had complete power over how movies were made and distributed.
They owned the stars and the theaters, they could let their theater not play any movies made by anyone else, creating an area based monopoly on whose movies can play where. If Universal movies are playing in a local cinema and Fox movies are playing a 45 minute drive away, then you'll probably go see a Universal movie instead.
Studios had a lot of power over the stars. They based their image on these stars without any considerations for who the star really was.
It was this period where a lot of classic film 'rules' were made.
Continuity editing, making edits not noticeable.
Establishing shots, show a place before going to a place.
Shot reverse shot, cuts between people who are speaking to each other.
180 rule, don't let two people you're cutting between be on the same side of the screen.
30 degree rule, move camera atleast 30 degrees as to not jump cut.
eye line match, people look in different directions when cut to.
Animation
Steamboat Willie came out in 1928, this was Mickey Mouse's first appearance.
The Old Mill (1936) is a nice little short animation about animals, real animals not wacky Mickey Mouse animations.
Max Fleischer is the guy who invented the rotoscope, he could track the movements of an actor and animate over them.
Paul Terry liked to make cheap cartoons that don't have much detail, it's revolutionary stuff.
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