Jan. 10 Movie Notes

• Daily News = oldest daily newspaper
• sold itself through it's pictures
• focus on one specific story, and blow it up (capture attention)
• appeal to the emotions
• six to seven issues a day
• 1920s = tabloid wars
• hard not to have a good news day in the 1920s
• composer graph = stage the photograph
• people would pose for the photo then they would change the faces
• truth always loses out to fantasy
• photos replaced drawings = more public response
• photos invested products with emotion
• turn a lowly object into something magnificent
• added a new dimension to fame
• stories of individuals were being brought to the public
• sports stars became celebrities
• invented an actor's image and created stars
• astronomers used to look through telescopes and drew what they saw
• photos neutralize any defect in your acquisition