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Roll camera
Eastman Kodak came out with the Brownie camera, a very simple cardboaerd box camera that used roll film -
Hollywood
Film Introduction Companies start moving to Hollywood. -
Loudspeaker
C.G Hensley got the idea for a loud speaker by thinking about what would happen if you made a large telephone. -
Epic Theatre
Epic theatreform of didactic drama presenting a series of loosely connected scenes that avoid illusion and often interrupt the story line to address the audience directly with analysis, argument, or documentation. -
Surrealism
Is a cultural movement and artistic style that was founded by Andre' Breton. Use juxtapostion and unexpected combinations that look like it came from a dream world -
Jazz Singer
It was the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action . -
First Academy awards 1st best actress Janet Gaynor
The first Academy awards held in May 1929 the first best actress award was won by Janet Gaynor -
Macbeth
Eugene O'Neill receives the Nobel Prize for his dramatic works. Orson Welles directs Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with an all African-American cast. -
Antonin artaud
info & picFrench actor, director, and playwright he created Theatre of cruelty which is based on extreme gestures ( and stage designs). -
Sartre's 1946 Existentialism
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a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices. -
Absurdist :Waiting for Godot play
Absurdism:a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that basically everything is pointless . That the search for sense or order brings conflict with an indiviudial with the universe .
Samuel Beckett one of the most welll know absurdist wrote Waiting for Godot which is probably the most absurd play to date according to " theatre of the absurd" -
Jean Rosenthal died
pic & infoBig contributor to the movement of establishing lighting design into the standard crew behind a performance ( : . Lighting was usually handle by the scene designer or master electriciain.. -
Orson Welles
pictureBorn May 6 ,1915 and died Oct 10, 1985 . Orson Welles was a director, playwright, actor, theatre director, and painter, Held a lot of artistic abilities. Was like the shakespeare of the century.
