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History of American Cinema |
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| site devoted to famous director D.W. Griffith |
| Thomas Edison early motion pictures |
| website on the first sound movies ("talkies") |
| Early Film Star, Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart"
--Mary Pickford Institute site, featuring, biography, filmography, film clips, and more --PBS American Experience website on Pickford (including several film clips, early cinema timeline, biography and more) |
| Biography of influential early comedy film director Mack Sennett, known as "The King of Comedy" who created the Keystone Kops |
| Biography on silent film comedy star Harold Lloyd (PBS American Masters website) |
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| Profile of prominent and influential director John Ford (known for classics of Americana such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, and Mister Roberts) |
| Online Exhibition of David Selznick & his directed film, Gone with the Wind |
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| Brief biographies of the Hollywood Ten, Hollywood figures sent to prison by the U.S. Congress for refusing to cooperate in anti-Communist investigations (Univ. of California, Berkeley) |
| A review of films pertaining to the Second Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s |
| A 50-year retrospective by the Screen Actors Guild of the Hollywood Blacklist |
| A fan site on the career of 1950s starlet Doris Day, seen by many to be a still "wholesome" alternative to the beginning of the shakeup in traditional morality (such as Rock & Roll, the Beat Movement, and more sexually challenging figures like Marilyn Monroe) |
| Time magazine retrospective on the impact of Marilyn Monroe, who represented a challenge to the traditional sexual mores, emerging in the 1950s and extending into the 1970s |
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| Mike Nichols, director of the landmark 1967 film, "The Graduate"
-- Profile of Nichols (PBS American Masters website) -- Biography of Nichols (on private "Senses of Cinema" website) |
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| Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, who first exploded onto the
film scene in the 1970s:
-- profile on Scorsese (PBS American Masters site) -- brief Scorsese biography (New York Times website) |