1917: The Highest Grossing Movies Of The Year (Classic Edition) скачать в хорошем качестве

1917: The Highest Grossing Movies Of The Year (Classic Edition)

Reflecting back on the earliest days of cinema when the movies were still something radically new and experimental! 1917 was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondly, the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". The United States had entered World War I, and while Hollywood was not yet fully mobilized for propaganda, the tone of popular cinema reflected shifting national moods. The box office leaders of the year reveal an industry balancing spectacle, morality tales, literary prestige, and increasingly powerful screen personalities. If 1916 belonged artistically to "Intolerance", 1917 belonged commercially to spectacle anchored by star power. "Cleopatra", starring Theda Bara, became one of the year’s most talked-about films. Lavish sets, provocative costumes, and Bara’s commanding screen presence made it a cultural event. Though much of the film is now lost, contemporary accounts describe enormous pageantry and visual opulence. The film solidified the “vamp” persona and demonstrated how aggressively studios could market an actress as a mythic figure. The last two prints of "Cleopatra" known to exist were destroyed in fires at the Fox studios in 1937 (along with the majority of Bara's other films for Fox) and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1958, and the majority of the film is now considered lost. Sadly, only a minute of film is known to have survived, a small portion of which is included in this video. Comprehensive, fully accurate worldwide grosses do not exist for this era, and most figures are from North American rentals/estimates rather than modern reported box office totals. This video is based on those domestic rentals and gross estimates for films upon their initial release in 1917, with boxoffice numbers reported in "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood" written by Robert S. Birchard. #movies #film #1917 #1917movies #boxoffice #highestgrossingmovies #classicmovies #cleopatra #thedabara