Craig taught me more about films than my English teacher could in two terms of film studies *eagle punch*
@gabogc5 жыл бұрын
That is why is your english teacher and not your film teacher )
@wave33087 жыл бұрын
My favorite Crash Course series so far :)
@MaytaneVideos7 жыл бұрын
yeah buddy!!!!!
@crashcourse7 жыл бұрын
Oh! Thanks so much :) - Nick J.
@freddylooger73207 жыл бұрын
same! I hope this is a 45 episode series, even though I don't know what they would talk about for 45 episodes. ;p
@eknorpp7 жыл бұрын
definitely, I love film as an art.
@ThomasSchannel7 жыл бұрын
EliNation film is art
@Caeruleus0007 жыл бұрын
I really admire how matter-of-fact Craig is about D.W. Griffith. He acknowledges the man's racism - as he should - but doesn't dwell on it longer than necessary; he also points out why Griffith is important to Film History.
@AmeeBor5 жыл бұрын
I just wanna take a moment to thank CrashCourse for also highlighting the African American filmindustry and their answer to D.W Griffith's Birth of a Nation, my uni never talked about this, so without this video I'd never know. Learning this made me really happy :)
@behemothokun7 жыл бұрын
Even more reasons to dislike Edison, goddamn, the more I learn of him, the more I hate him.
@Scerttle7 жыл бұрын
I feel like commenting this after almost every episode of this series haha
@timothymclean7 жыл бұрын
Edison was quite the businessman, huh?
@TheSchmuck27 жыл бұрын
He was such a thug and a greedy a-hole. I hate him so much.
@JCLegendary7 жыл бұрын
being a thug and greedy a-hole is what makes a model businessman.
@prabhakarbhat24777 жыл бұрын
I love this guy. I admire how he crushed his opponents.
@t_melloon19027 жыл бұрын
Edison is the original patent troll
@JSeedProductions7 жыл бұрын
So, could this be considered a one-reeler?
@evan-dq2vm7 жыл бұрын
JSeedProductions I don't think so since we don't use reels anymore
@varana7 жыл бұрын
We still use "cut" even though we don't cut film rolls anymore. ;)
@gailcbull7 жыл бұрын
You could say that the internet has made one-reelers cool again.
@FictionFactoryGames7 жыл бұрын
That's actually a very relevant concept now. Years ago KZbin limited most uploads to 11 minutes... like a one-reeler. Even though you can upload any length you want to now, there's a cultural weight carried forward from those early years to keep content around 11 minutes anyway.
@Ganondorfdude117 жыл бұрын
KZbin originally limited uploads to 10 minutes to prevent full movies from being uploaded to avoid copyright violations. All that accomplished was full movies being uploaded in 15 parts in 240p where the top comment was "Can anyone reupload part 12?"
@Trublucolurs7 жыл бұрын
Can I recommend the MIT course on film that is available for free on Opencourseware - It's really interesting & takes you on a tour of the important stages of cinema history. Obviously not as speedy as these videos but damn it's interesting and provides a path through the history of cinema that makes watching old films more enjoyable. Also you pick up a lot about styles & technique along the way. "The Film Experience".
@bentoth95557 жыл бұрын
The "can we get a closeup" bit was great. Sadly, I'm in a state where a lot of people see DW Griffith as a hero, and refuse to see anything wrong with the narrative in Birth of a Nation. The number of those people seem to be dropping with time, but it's sad that they're still out there.
@poppop-oj6by7 жыл бұрын
19Szabolcs91 Huh?
@DemiDragonQueen7 жыл бұрын
"inconvienient" aka overtly racist and white supremicist
@bentoth95557 жыл бұрын
This isn't about erasing history. It's about not glorifying hate groups as Griffith did. We can admit the Klan did, and do, exist as a group without making them out to be heroes.
@Nothing_serious7 жыл бұрын
Ben Toth Birth of a Nation was an innovative film but the message is horrible.
@bentoth95557 жыл бұрын
I agree entirely, Your Waifu Sucks. The film was groundbreaking from a cinematography perspective. My concern is with the narrative, which is what people (a very vocal minority of them, at least) in this state seem to think was so great.
@CynicalHistorian7 жыл бұрын
Nice job handling a sensitive subject with Griffith. I do wish you had mentioned his follow-up though: Intolerance (1916). Some have called it his apology for Birth of a Nation (1915). Intolerance is also better sorry telling than what we get from just about all of Hollywood ever since, with it's amazingly complicated plot and cinematography that somehow works.
@DANBIIB7 жыл бұрын
Hey, what about "The Story of the Kelly Gang"?? Made in 1906 Australia, and it ran for over an hour!!!
@quiroz9237 жыл бұрын
I highly recommend D. W. Griffith's next film: INTOLERANCE. It was a far more (shall we say) artistic and experimental film that juggled four different stories set in four different historical ages in order to transmit a powerful and moving message about intolerance. Yes, the man that made a movie fellating the KKK also did a movie about how intolerance is bad.
@chrisjenkins9637 жыл бұрын
quiroz923 it was a life-raft release to try and save his career.
@SamAronow6 жыл бұрын
It was because he thought critics were intolerant of his intolerance.
@ursmarrings275 жыл бұрын
When my World Cinema class was going over this, I sincerely thought he made this to cover his own bigoted derrière, but I will give *Intolerance* a watch, for academic reasons.
@alexgabel43795 жыл бұрын
Yes, and no... he tried to defend himself by publishing a pamflet offering no excuses for his racial tendencies in The Birth of a Nation. Then, after receiving more criticism, he made Intolerance as a "spirited defense of his right to have made it." (Cook)
@bluenightsky4 жыл бұрын
Or Broken Blossoms, although the film is still racist albeit less in your face about it.
@harryharris40577 жыл бұрын
did you omit the 1906 Australian feature The story of the Kelly gang for any reason?
@JimCullen7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I thought that was really odd, too. The Story of the Kelly Gang is generally regarded as the first full-length narrative feature film. That's a pretty damn important historical landmark that it seems really odd to leave it out.
@mousaey7 жыл бұрын
It's in the title sequence
@Lazy_Llama7 жыл бұрын
Too right mate yanks just like to think they are first at something :P
@Lazy_Llama7 жыл бұрын
Yeah its also an informal term Australians use when referring to Americans in general.
@SuperAngryPacman7 жыл бұрын
As far as I'm aware, some Brits also use Yank as a catchall term for Americans.
@Dinuial7 жыл бұрын
That deal The Trust had going sounds eerily similar to the one attached to film projectors today. (For those unaware, the high quality digital film projectors becoming standard today are prohibitively expensive to buy so most theaters lease theirs. With the lease agreement comes a requirement to screen certain movies. Doesn't matter what the tastes of your community are, if your local theater has one of these projectors they are required to provide x number of screenings of those releases specified under the terms of the lease.)
@Zeroharpe7 жыл бұрын
I think this has got to be my favorite crash course since Astronomy.
@InnocentDoodles6 жыл бұрын
"Oscar-Worthy Bucket of Tears?" My nickname in Highschool.
@danspitalnik7 жыл бұрын
I dropped out of my university media course and am doing biomed instead. Thank you for making a pleasant, accessible way of learning all the cool stuff without having to do a whole degree in it.
@Atroonks7 жыл бұрын
The release and popularity of Birth of a Nation also resparked interest in the Ku Klux Klan. It had such mainstream acceptance that Woodrow Wilson screened the film at the White House. By 1920 the Klan was at record membership. The film was such a powerful recruiting tool that the Klan screened it up till the 1970s. Thousands of people died because of this film.
@gr8aussief--kup7 жыл бұрын
what about the story of the kelly gang which is recognised as the first ever full length narrative feature and came around in 1906?
@pierrez85707 жыл бұрын
David Wark Griffith also made "Intolerance" a couple of years after, which was a sort of an attempt to redeem himself.
@jessegarrett72157 жыл бұрын
I love the use of the often overlooked punch transition in these videos. You teach film history in the best way, by example
@brimbles49997 жыл бұрын
why didn't you mention the story of the kelly gang? that was the first feature length film, birth of a nation was the first block buster and came out just under 10 years after kelly
@hyperactivejaz7 жыл бұрын
CRAIG. You do a wonderful job in this series! I'd love to see your bloopers.
@aramisia6 жыл бұрын
"An oscar worthy bucket of tears" !!! Love this quote! 😂❤
@chaseminor29417 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy the props in the background, especially the Hellraiser Puzzle Cube and the Rey-Kylo fight thing, and the OUTTATIME license plate
@MrMusAddict7 жыл бұрын
2:18 Eagle punch is out of sync :(
@YoungTheFish7 жыл бұрын
I the words of Jack Warner: "I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday."
@schmittelt7 жыл бұрын
Crash Course Music History.
@GMRTranscriptionServicesInc7 жыл бұрын
A delightful saga of the evolution of film-making and the birth of feature films. Being a movie buff, loved this video! :)
@anjalimalik98397 жыл бұрын
please do a video on situation ethics, these videos are soo helpful and explain topics to me in a way that I can easily understand!
@es29036 жыл бұрын
I was unaware that Michael from Vsauce knew so much about films =P
@thischannelhasaclevername54817 жыл бұрын
I'd like to congratulate the sound editor for his accuracy at 2:18. Almost there buddy, almost there.
@culwin7 жыл бұрын
A plot? I remember those. Can't wait until he gets to the episode where he talks about modern film which are all reboots and sequels and adaptations of existing works.
@aintnoslice34227 жыл бұрын
what about ''the kelly gang''? Wasn't that the first feature film?
@gijsklaassen88517 жыл бұрын
2:19 You were too slow when you punched the eagle!
@shellysunfish7 жыл бұрын
How about Crash Course: music history series next?
@2bitgirly0077 жыл бұрын
Triumph of the Will is an even messier film to traverse...freakin' gorgeous but also literally all about how great Hitler and the Nazis are.
@TyrannoFan7 жыл бұрын
Woah holy shit crash course film history???? How have I missed this series until now?
@frizider27 жыл бұрын
Harry Potter and the Magic Dollar? I don't understand how are people upset about the two parts. They had an option to make one 2 and a half hour long movie and cut way too much stuff out of the book, or make two movies that total 4 and a half hours. Sounds pretty fair to me and I'm glad they did it that way.
@kilgoretrout19527 жыл бұрын
I'd rather they leave out some stuff and make one good film, than put in absolutely everything and then some but make two average films
@ac1boy7 жыл бұрын
One thing i've learned from this series: Craig love movies :)
@locomike12197 жыл бұрын
DW Griffith makes you wonder about controversial artists and whether or not it's okay to still enjoy the piece of art despite the artist being...bad. Richard Wagner was an anti semite, but wrote some of the most important operas. But what about LostProphets, and the Ian Wilkins thing? Should we still enjoy the music despite its tainted legacy?
@benjamintillema35727 жыл бұрын
I think the difference here is that not only is the artist is racist, but the film he made was made to push his racist agenda. It's a lot more difficult to support a controversial masterpiece when the piece itself, without the context of who made it, is fraught with harmful and despicable messages and themes.
@varana7 жыл бұрын
There's a difference, though - while e.g. Wagner may have been quite an antisemite, personally, his works mostly don't feature those particular views. In the case of Griffith, it's the work itself that wears the racism and historical revisionism on its sleeve. To enjoy listening to Wagner is different than watching Birth of a Nation. So while it's only fair to acknowledge the historical importance and technical mastery of Birth of a Nation, I wouldn't go so far as being comfortable with "enjoying" the movie as a movie - because the story and message are a major part of that, and they _are_ disgusting. Also an interesting case, though, are other works by Griffith, like Intolerance, and that's even harder to sort out.
@Little1Cave7 жыл бұрын
locomike1219 I always to try separate the artist from the art. My personal opinion of people such as Woody Allen and Kanye West are very negative, yet I still enjoy several of Woody Allen's films and Kanye West's music (though I understand why some wouldn't be a fan of either. Lol)
@Moscato_Moscato7 жыл бұрын
locomike1219 if you can separate the art from the artists then do it!
@UteChewb7 жыл бұрын
I saw Birth Of A Nation in my teens. I realised it was racist but I also saw that it was also brilliantly done. Skip 40 years and I finally got to see Leni Riefenstahl's, "Triumph of the Will." Again a brilliant movie, a spectacular piece of art, but in service to Nazism. You can separate the work from the artist, we all have to do it, it doesn't matter if the creator of something was wonderful or despicable. I liked "Triumph of the Will" so much I bought the DVD even though I hate the Nazis.
@julianac15517 жыл бұрын
What happened to the 60 minute 1906 Australian film The Story of the Kelly Gang? Why not mention it as predecessor of features?
@jasperanscombe91587 жыл бұрын
I don't even know why I watch these, they're just cool, Look forward to next weeks.
@fynntasticmovienight7 жыл бұрын
this guy is like a discount Vsauce or is Vsauce a discount Craig 8)
@spanksthx7 жыл бұрын
I love this Crash Course sooooo much. KEEP IT COMING!!! Will there be a lesson on concessions? Theater design? Gimicky things like 3d and vibrating seats?
@PeacefulAnxiety7 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to watch this episode!
@angelm68777 жыл бұрын
this has helped my senior thesis so much
@natasharomanof25437 жыл бұрын
I remember all of these facts when I took my film history class. That was the best class I have ever taken
@rattis7 жыл бұрын
Here in Sweden a movie theater is still called a biograf. :)
@6rooroo6 жыл бұрын
I'm cramming for my A level film mock and your videos on lumiere, melies, porter and this are so helpful
@AximTurel7 жыл бұрын
I love this series so far!
@boonga585 Жыл бұрын
Thank you this is very helpful for learning about the history of films very interesting to see how this medium green up
@ashlynnance74036 жыл бұрын
I hope I am taught this in my Film Studies class... only time will tell
@ShubhamGupta-ir2gn7 жыл бұрын
1:00 GRIFIIIIIIIIIIIITH
@TheSchmuck27 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!! This episode was amazing!!! Thank you!!!
@DerHistoryMeister7 жыл бұрын
Yeeees. It's always awesome when CrashCourse releases a video. :D Keep it up! You guys are awesome!
@AllenQuid7 жыл бұрын
I love this series.
@haroldriverofilms Жыл бұрын
The content is excellent though. I think you should slow down a little bit. I love it!
@smilingeva7 жыл бұрын
I love this crash course series!
@willemvandebeek7 жыл бұрын
2:18 eagle-punch sound came too early...
@WarblesOnALot7 жыл бұрын
G'day, Ah, point of order, matey...! Actually, the first "full-length Feature Film" in the World to have a narrative Story & identifiable (historical) Characters was made in 1901, made in AUSTRALIA, made by Australians, it was a movie about our most iconic Bushranger - Edward "Ned" Kelly ; it was titled "The Kelly Gang", and it ran for a couple of hours..., on Celluloid Film. Only a few small fragments still exist, one of them 13 seconds long, and sadly the Film was not ever widely screened after it was first shown..., because the Government of Oz actually banned it ; the first Feature Film dver made, the movie about Australia's most famous Outlaw was itself outlawed, because at the time the "Authorities" were terrified by Ned Kelly's ongoing popularity among the CitiZenry of Oz... Them's the facts. I think you should try somewhat harder to stipulate that many of the "Firsts" which you refer to in your Videos are not actually World Firsts, but merely "AmeriKan Firsts"...; because pretending that first in AmeriKa equates to first in the World paints you-alls as being a bunch of hubristic ignorant arrogant self-deluded hyperpatriotic Buffoons, wallowing in self-aggrandizing Bullshit, actually... Overcompensated Inferiority-Complex, much ? It probably plays well-enough inside Unkle Spam's Boundaries & Borders, but everywhere else on the Planet it rings just(ifiably ?) as falsely as it used to do, back when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics used to teach their little Schoolchildren that "Aeroplanes were invented in Russia"...! Take it easy, ;-p Ciao !
@breadmoneyarchival7 жыл бұрын
FINALLY! A video that does more to describe Birth of a Nation as an important film in the history of film besides just calling it racist. I admit it's racist in its message and narrative, but there's more to it than racism.
@jamesburman3487 жыл бұрын
Why no shout out to 'The Story of the Kelly Gang'?
@TheFreddyEduard7 жыл бұрын
For a not native English speaking person as me was he speaking to fast, so i play the video at 0.75 speed. Now i can follow what he said.
@nerdommeetsboy7 жыл бұрын
academics be like: "D.W. Griffith is such a great director!" "Leni Riefenstahl is such a great director!"
@johnnytremp7 жыл бұрын
The eagles punch sound effect was off by a few seconds
@j.d.35977 жыл бұрын
I love this series!!!
@thomasgabby62147 жыл бұрын
Enlightening, very enlightening
@customvrocker7 жыл бұрын
OMG Craig said my hometown!!!!!!!!!!!
@arielcurra76475 жыл бұрын
Great crash course
@ThePrimalEarth7 жыл бұрын
are we gonna get an episode on cgi? (hopefully yes) and if so will it mention jurassic as the first movie to use photorealistic cgi? hopefully yes right?
@karlkarlos35457 жыл бұрын
can't wait for the next one.
@firebucket82037 жыл бұрын
Are you guys going over the 80s ?
@crashcourse7 жыл бұрын
A bit, yes. We're going to do a whole episode on home video and the 80s were a big part of that. - Nick J.
@firebucket82037 жыл бұрын
CrashCourse thanks
@jeremiastofe7 жыл бұрын
Are going to touch Video Art or are you going to frame (he) only to feature movies? I'm studying film history in a university in Argentina and Video Art is in the lesson, so I'm curious.
@crashcourse7 жыл бұрын
Only a little bit. We'll talk about "Experimental" later in the year. - Nick J.
@jeremiastofe7 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@nerdler7 жыл бұрын
when was the term Film studio was first used?
@aligatoriukee7 жыл бұрын
Why did the eagle punching sound come before the actual eagle punching?
@michaelwalton40177 жыл бұрын
So... they ran to a little two bit L.A. suburb to get away from Edison. Good show!😀👍
@freddylooger73207 жыл бұрын
more random punching, please!
@keyontehill73357 жыл бұрын
that poor eagle always taking a beating for no reason smh
@Gwynncore7 жыл бұрын
Please do a series on Music History.
@hopesnyder90327 жыл бұрын
I hope Save the Cat is mentioned in this series.
@davidortega96987 жыл бұрын
Punching eagles will never get old
@MakeMeThinkAgain7 жыл бұрын
I hope you return to the Black film industry and cover their distribution system (hint: it was Pullman porters on trains.)
@RickyGExtra_TX7 жыл бұрын
Woah is that's Razor's car in the video thumbnail?
@salazars.41237 жыл бұрын
eagle punch audio not synced!
@geoffreywinn40317 жыл бұрын
Educational!
@monsterlair7 жыл бұрын
Oh look. I'm on the shelf.
@crashcourse7 жыл бұрын
HA! - Nick J.
@LeaBrggerDetlevsen7 жыл бұрын
How and when did they invent movies with "integrated" sound?
@SunriseFireberry7 жыл бұрын
History of TV next?
@AzathotFilm7 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if you'll be covering the paraller development of European (and later on Asian, S-American and African) Cinema?
@Teo117 Жыл бұрын
I love it!
@TurboHertz7 жыл бұрын
Hey nice Tesla in the video thumbnail!
@davidalexallen7 жыл бұрын
Was it just me, or did the eagle-punch sound come before the eagle was punched?
@kazooboi80017 жыл бұрын
Still waiting on crash course geography to make a comeback
@rachelaugsburger14717 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that "independent" is spelled wrong ("independant") in the sum-up at the end? Anyone? Just me? Okay.
@garrettz83577 жыл бұрын
I was wondering where Problematic Edison was last episode.
@stonerfather7 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@Rapture-Asuka7 жыл бұрын
Hollywood has never changed
@brightonfeldman2217 жыл бұрын
This amazing
@fatbaby36937 жыл бұрын
Do one on the WATERGATE SCANDAL.
@yarimo6 жыл бұрын
Theres a big mistake on this segment. Birth of a Nation is a very long movie. 3h and 13 mins. Intollerance was also as long.