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    The document discusses the history of the American film industry from the Edison era to the present day independent film scenario. [1] It describes how the Edison Trust dominated distribution in the early 1900s before being replaced by the studio system of the Big Five majors. [2] As costs rose, low-budget films known as "Poverty Row" productions emerged alongside Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave which rejected commercial styles. [3] Today, independent films can be made more easily through digital technology, guerrilla filmmaking, festivals, viral media, and crowd-sourcing.

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    The document discusses the history of the American film industry from the Edison era to the present day independent film scenario. [1] It describes how the Edison Trust dominated distribution in the early 1900s before being replaced by the studio system of the Big Five majors. [2] As costs rose, low-budget films known as "Poverty Row" productions emerged alongside Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave which rejected commercial styles. [3] Today, independent films can be made more easily through digital technology, guerrilla filmmaking, festivals, viral media, and crowd-sourcing.

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    Independent Film Movement

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    The document discusses the history of the American film industry from the Edison era to the present day independent film scenario. [1] It describes how the Edison Trust dominated distribution in the early 1900s before being replaced by the studio system of the Big Five majors. [2] As costs rose, low-budget films known as "Poverty Row" productions emerged alongside Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave which rejected commercial styles. [3] Today, independent films can be made more easily through digital technology, guerrilla filmmaking, festivals, viral media, and crowd-sourcing.

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    - Subhajit Shome 11030141006

    Edison Era
    Founded in December 1908. Trust of all the major film companies
    Edison,Biograph, Vitagraph ,Essanay,Selig Lubin, Kalem,American Star, American Path

    The leading distributor George Kleine The biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak

    The studio system replaces Edison Tex t


    The Big Five Majors
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., RKO Pictures

    The Little Three majors


    United Artists, Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios

    D.W Griffith (1875-1948)

    Poverty Row
    Grand National, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures, Producers Releasing Corporation (aka PRC)

    Low-budget films

    Italian NeorealisM & The French New Wave


    Rejection of Commercial Cinematic
    styles Shoe-string budgets Filmed on location Natural Lighting Direct Sound recording Improvised dialogue and Plotting Long takes Jump cuts Frequent use of non-professional actors Subjects related to everyday life and human psyche

    Vittorio de Sica

    Francois Truffaut

    Satyajit Ray

    Jean-luc Godard

    Some interesting stories ..

    Independent film scenario today


    Rising cost of film stock Digital technology Guerilla filmmaking Film festivals & Viral Media Self funding & Crowd Sourcing

    Cinema is escaping being controlled by the financier, and that's a wonderful thing. You don't have to go hat-in-hand to some film distributor and say, 'Please will you let me make a movie?

    - Francis Ford Coppola Director The Godfather

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