World Classics    

 

 

            How a filmmaker’s site can be complete without a tribute to all time great moviemaker’s? So in this section of shyamshah.com MEDIA MAESTRO presents brief details of classic silver screen creations of 20th century?
 

The silent era:
           

            Perhaps it was the toughest period in the history of cinema, because the technology of blending sound with the moving picture was not invented yet. This 2-d presentation of a story line also lacked color besides sound the theatre was at its zenith with live characters and hypnotizing dialogue deliveries. Yet, the flickers, as the moving pictures were referred to in those days, lad successfully cast their spell over the audience usage of various lenses, camera movement and sleek editing were to come quite after several years. But still they make movies and people appreciated them.
   

The Great Train Robbery:           
     

       

                 The film was made by the edison company in the year 1903. The film was directed by Edwin s. portar. The film was full of action. Some scenes were pasteurized on the actual moving train. A filmmaker can easily understand how difficult it must have been to film such sequences with the equipments available in these days. No wonder the film was on big success.          

            

   

The Birth of a Nation:           

     

           

           A Griffith/epoch film made in 1914. The director D.W.Griffith deserves the credit of laying a successful foundation for the peature-length film with the making of “ the birth of a nation” duration of the film was over three hours. Evolving in the backdrop of the civil war period. The film was blended tactfully with history and fiction. It depicted with slavery, dramatic battle sequences and a love story.

           Cast of the making of this film was about 100,000.but the film received a massive commercial success grossing well over $ 30 million. On celluloid with camera, is inevitable wile writing a script for a film.

     

              It is very essential to keep the duration of film in mind. That helps to maintain the flow and pace of the film. An ideal screenwriter always takes care of the duration of each sequence and scene. That’s why it’s very much essential for a screenwriter to have basic knowledge of the technical aspects of the filmmaking. It is my personal experience that the knowledge of editing helps a lot while writing for screen.

              Bowler hat, out-turned feet, mustache and walking came-yes that’s Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). He had grown in to the brightest star in the galaxy of world cinema during all these years. He made his directoral debut in the year 1918. The film was a dog’s life.          

   

A Dog’s Life:           
     

           

           Charlie Chaplin made this film for first national. In the film he compared the life of a tramp with a dog’s life. As seen in all the films made by Charlie Chaplin consisted the realistic treatment blended with the tramp’s comedy in the typical Chaplin fashion. A dog’s life was one of the films that marked the beginning of an era of the realistic cinema.            

 
        

                          

      

 

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