FROM FILM TO THE DIGITAL AGE
OUR THEME FOR THE DIGITAL
MEDIA FESTIVAL IN SILICON VALLEY
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Walter Cronkite hosts SILICON VALLEY: A ONE HUNDRED YEAR RENAISSANCE |
At a time in movie history when a digital paradigm shift is seeing the "film" and "television" business go through some historic changes and evolution. Digital income has now exceeded theatrical and the home video market added together.
George Lucas said, "I believe I will never do another film... on film..."
On the Big Silver Screen we have just seen "Hugo" and "The Artist" movies that go back in time to the early days of film, and winning the top awards in Film for 2011. In that same spirit of looking back to the early days of film, we are going to take you on a trip. |
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THE ARTIST...The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress, as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies. Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning the Award for Picture and several others. The film was in black and white and a silent film, shot all in Los Angels by a French team. |
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HUGO...The story has a very interesting ending where we see some of the history of early film making, and are learning the lesson of "follow your dreams"...while tracking the story of the young Hugo, the book also tells the story of the early days of filmmaking and the genius of real-life French filmmaker Georges Melies, who is played in the film by Ben Kingsley.
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Melies was a magician before he started making movies around 1900. Brian
Selznick tells NPR's Melissa Block that his book was inspired in part by
Melies' 1902 film A Trip
to the Moon, in which a rocket zooms toward a moon with a human
face on it. The movie was "loosely based on two popular novels of
the time: "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne and "The First Men
in the Moon" by H.G. Wells Melies was a illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. He was famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Melies, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects. |
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It is well-known how much Scorsese loves the
history and art of creating
films, and how much he admires the movie pioneer Georges
Méliès.
Consider "Hugo" his valentine to the movies, and the making of movies,
which amaze, entertain and, sometimes, uplift us.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s
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Cass Warner will attend screening |
The Brothers Warner
The doc has Dennis Hopper, Sherry Lansing, Debbie Reynolds, Norman Lear, George Segal, Angie Dickson, Samuel Goldwyn, Tab Hunter and many greats of the early years of the birth and creation of Warner Brothers Studio. |
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The Crowd
directed by King Vidor 1928 with Gena Mertz King Vidor's granddaughter April 2013 |
St. Louis Blues
directed by Dudley Murphy 1929 with Erin Murphey Dudley's daughter |
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Sioux Ghost Dance 1984 in Albert Edison's Black Maria Studio
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World of American Indian Dance From NBC to Marketing on the Digital Frontier |
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Henry Juszkiewicz of Gibson Guitar, Les Paul & Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronic Show giving Les an award for the roll he played in the early days... |
April 2013 Special Tribute To Les Paul
Les Paul himself was tinkering in his garage blending electricity, music and technology, where he invented the hard body electric guitar, reverb, echo and sound on sound recording. Some special footage and talk with Festival Producer Benford Standley, who was good friends with Les. |
Les Paul Chasing Sound
Les Paul made some critical connections with entertainment and electricity, and some of the early inventions in the music biz. |
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Jerry Garcia...Grateful Dead, hippies technology and the Silicon Valley
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The parallels of the European and Silicon Valley Renaissance...Pt. 1
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The parallels of the European and Silicon Valley Renaissance...Pt. 2
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