The Definition of Classic Hollywood

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia:

Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history which designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between roughly the 1910s and the 1960s.

Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of continuity editing or "invisible" style. That is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to themselves (as they might in a modernist or postmodernist work).

Old/Classic Hollywood Tribute

Here is a video courtesy of YouTube to help set the mood about Classic Hollywood.

More will come whenever possible.

Welcome to the Golden Age of Hollywood (June 1, 2010)

In my personal opinion, Hollywood has is no longer the most appealing or exciting place in the whole world. The actors are bad, the films being made make no sense, and there really is nothing that seems to be professional about it. You may not believe it but there was a time when Hollywood was exciting and glamorous. There was a time when movies made sense with their plots and characters. There was a time when actors and actresses knew how to act and how to do so in a real, authentic way.

This time all ties into the period known as "The Golden Age of Hollywood"; a time when movies were filmed in glorious black and white, wardrobes were extravagent, sets were majestic, and the price of a movie ticket was a mere twenty-five cents. The purpose of this blog is to get you to understand this period and all that took place in it and at the same time this blog is meant to open your eyes to the world of classic film and what it has to offer you. Let's begin shall we?