Notes
Dublin Core
Title
Notes
Description
Annotations on resources collected here generated by participants in FILM300. These are the public-facing research contributions of the course.
Contributor
Mark Garrett Cooper
Rights
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">CC BY-NC</a>
Collection Items
About the Project
From its beginning in spring of 2009, the University of South Carolina's course in Film and Media History (then FILM 300, after fall 2016 FAMS 300) included a research exercise asking students to use a relatively small number of primary sources of…
Note on World War 1
Film had a major impact on the lives of those in Columbia in 1919, and for future generations. It was a fad around Columbia in 1919 for girls to “treat” soldiers, often to movies ("A Lament"). These forward gestures offered by these confident…
Note on the Shift from Live Acts to Filmed Entertainment
The development of film culture in Columbia from 1904 to 1919 witnessed an increasing interest in film as something different from live performances. Once a novelty overshadowed by forms of entertainment like minstrel shows and plays, films rose to…
Note on Advertisements
During the 1910s, films as a source of entertainment became more prevalent. Gone were the days of having sideshow films at carnivals or accompanying a minstrel performance. The film industry had strayed from the montage stylings of newsreels and…
Note on Black Theaters
Columbia experienced two separate histories of movie exhibition. This excerpt from the 1920 City Directory shows an example of how theaters were listed. Colored businesses including theaters were indicated with an asterisk. Other editions of the…
Note on Transportation
From 1904 through 1920 the population increased in Columbia, S.C. from 21,108 to 37,524 and shifted from outlining farm area’s to city living (Moore 277). With the positive direction of industry, incomes increased, disposable funds increased and…
Note on Moviegoing Etiquette
Early movie going in Columbia involved not only coming to grips with a new technology and but also learning proper behavior inside the theaters. Take a look at the article “Silence and Fun at the Movies” which appeared in The State newspaper in…
Note on Major Changes to 1920
When films first started being shown to the public in the early 20th century, the way people thought about the movies was very different from today. At first, the newspapers seemed to regard them as barely noteworthy, relegating news about them to…
Note on Monstrative Attractions
Between 1910 and 1919 there was a distinct and measurable change from monstrative attractions to more familiar types of narrative-driven films in Columbia. Monstrative films told simple, often well known fictions and documented or recreated current…
Note on the Co-dependence of Film and Advertising
In their "Note on the Shift from Live Acts to Filmed Entertainment," Daniel Brunjes and Evelyn Simental point out that from 1904 to 1920, films rose from being overshadowed by minstrel shows and plays to becoming the primary source of commercial…