论美国电影对中国电影业造成冲击的原因On Causes of Impact on Chinese Movie Industry Made by American Movies [2]
论文作者:佚名论文属性:短文 essay登出时间:2009-04-10编辑:刘宝玲点击率:23898
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关键词:American moviesChinese movie industryImpactquality disparity of moviessubjective causes美国电影中国电影业冲击电影质量差距主观原因
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Why do the American movie industry get so strong? There are so many reasons, but the most important one is disparity between the two countries’ movies themselves.
Everyone knows that American companies hold the highest movie-producing technology of the whole world, and no one else can compete with them, neither the Chinese movies.
How can American people make the most wonderful movies in the world? We have to trace back to the historical years of developing the early technologies of making the motion pictures. Solving the puzzle of making a picture move depended both on advances in photography and on the development of a flexible movie stock to replace the heavy metal-and-glass used to make individual pictures in the 1800s. In 1889, an American minister, Hannibal Goodwin, developed a transparent and pliable movie-called celluloid——that could hold a coating, or movie, of chemicals sensitive to light. This breakthrough solved a major problem: It enables a strip of movie to move through a camera and be photographed on rapid succession, producing a series of pictures. In the 1890s, George Eastman (later of Eastman Kodak) bought Goodwin’s patents, improved the idea, and manufactured the first movie used for motion pictures. (Richard Campbell, 2003)
As with the development of sound recording, Thomas Edison takes center stage in most accounts of the invention of motion pictures. In the late 1800s, Edison initially planned to merge phonograph technology and moving images to create talking pictures (which would not happen in feature movie until 1927). He directed an assistant, William Kennedy Dickson, to combine advance in Europe with the new celluloid to create an early camera, called the kinetograph, and a viewing system, called the kinetoscope. This small projection system housed fifty feet of movie that revolved on peep show in which viewers looked through a hole and saw images moving on a tiny plate. In 1894, a kinetoscope parlor, featuring two tows of coin-operated machines, opened in New York. This is the early history of developing movie-making technology. (Richard Campbell, 2003)
To some degree, America did exceed China at the history of making movies. Yes, it is. Motion pictures were not introduced to China until 1896. The first attempt happened in 1905. The Chinese movie industry did not begin until 1913 when Zhen zhengqiu and zhang shichuan shot the first Chinese movie The Difficult Couple in 1913. It took so many years to pass the early moviemaking technology to China not to mention how many years it needed for China to set up its movie industry. Many year ago, at the other side of Pacific, American early inventor and innovator of moviemaking technology see the commercial possibilities of movie, so they tried every effort to let people accept this new way of entertainment. By 1900, short movies had become a part of amusement arcades, traveling carnival, wax museums, and Vaudeville Theater.
As time goes by, the era of sound movies had finally come. In 1926, Warner formed the Vitaphone Corporation in association with Western Electric, a subsidiary of American Telegraph Company, to make sound picture and to market sound production equipment. Although Warner lost 1 million dollars in 1926, the lost was anticipated and was necessary to finance the expansion. Vitaphone initiated a sales campaign to encourage exhibitors to introduce sound equipment. Such planning paved the way for the success of the Jazzy Singer, which
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