Well it's been quite a while since I've posted on here. Since my last post there has been an NHL lockout and the Bruins have only lost two regulation games. It's been a rather eventful fall and winter. Included in this fun is my Film History class which I've been enjoying. Winter Storm Nemo has left me finding time to read and study. Our first paper is due by the end of the week and I've been trying to find newspaper articles from my birthday month of March. The only tough part is that they have to be from 1913. I stumbled upon a few good ones and I was intrigued by the newspapers from back then. The pictures look so foreign in their low quality appearance and the grammar of the text is far more eloquent.
I found a broad range of articles, scaling from how films are evil, to a couple's encounter with a wild animal. It was so interesting to see how folks back then were concerned about the content in the films in that era. They would probably pass out at the sight of some of today's gory and obscene films (reminds me of a new absurd comedy commercial I saw on TV tonight). I'm all for comedy films, but some studios just take it too far and it just ends up being dumb and good for only maybe one laugh. All of the articles were extremely interesting and seeing these newspapers from a century ago transported me back in time. Do a quick google search or use http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
I found an article about censorship as well. I was very surprised to learn how early within the development of movies that groups came out to try to censor the content. You're right about how shocking today's films are, but there are still many groups just like that who want to censor movies. It's a very weird experience to look at articles from 100 years ago. I was surprised how jam-packed the columns were. Way many more articles than today; but that makes sense because it was the primary source of news.
ReplyDeleteYa definitely man, you're right. I feel like the censorship articles will be perfect for our paper. I was surprised how early censorship groups started too and there are a lot out there today. I think the commercial I saw was for a movie similar to "Movie 43." The new trailer for "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" looks hilarious. Ya I noticed that too! Tons of little news stories all bunched together. It was so different.
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