You should be familiar with the following information:
Color in Film (technicolor)
Film Noir
Orson Welles & Citizen Kane
Hollywood during WWII (see Filmsite.org)
1940's actors: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Abbott & Costello, Gene Autry, Joseph Cotten, Laurence Olivier, Katherine Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., James (Jimmy) Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman.
1940's directors: John Huston, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, John Ford,
1940's producer: David O. Selznick, Walt Disney, Val Lewton
1940's films: Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, Walt Disney films, Horror Films, Film Noir, etc.
HUAC and its effect on film
This blog is designed for Rochester City School students at the School of the Arts in support of their classes: Playwriting & Film Studies.
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