The Beginner's Guide to Cinema 

I think its interesting to note that silent films persisted in Japan longer than they did in the US because they had these people called benshi. Benshi narrated movies to the audience and the benshi themselves became celebrities in their own way. Like people would go to specific theaters to see a movie narrated by well known benshi. Because of this different kind of filmgoing experience, silent film's popularity lasted longer there

Really Kino? The whole family can enjoy Grave of the Fireflies?

still waiting for someone to add time stamps hehe. edit: fine i'll do it myself 1:46 - Part 1: The Birth of Cinema 5:12 - Part 2: Silent Films 11:18 - Part 3: The Invention of Sound 14:05 - Part 4: The Hays Code 17:25 - Part 5: Technicolor 20:09 - Part 6: World War 2 20:45 - Part 7: The New Contenders 25:56 - Part 8: World Tour with Kino (too lazy to get the diff. countries haha) 35:33 - Part 9: New Hollywood & Beyond 44:08 - Part 10: Conclusion

17:53 "But Technicolor would come into it's own, commercially and artistically..."

I don't want to be THAT person, but in the '60s and '70s, there was a movement in Brazil called Cinema Novo (New Cinema). It was inspired by the french new wave and Italian neorealism. Glauber Rocha is the most famous director of the movement, and Martin Scorsese seems to be a great fan of his.

This is gonna be one of those film side of RU-vid classics.

I might follow up with a Part 2 later this year to go over the films, technologies, and film movements from the 80s to the 2020's. I hope that you all enjoyed this video and 2021 will be the Year of Kino! Here is the list of every film I mentioned or showed in the video: letterboxd.com/thekinocorner/list/the-beginners-guide-to-cinema/ Also, You can watch a lot of these movies I talked about on the Criterion Channel. I'm not paid by them. I just really love their service.

I've never seen a movie before, but after this video I feel I have enough knowledge to 5 star every Marvel movie ever on Letterboxd and tell Ralph Sepe, Jr. how little he knows about film. I can't wait to bore all my friends by telling them about how Europe chose a different frame rate than the common one because they couldn't figure out multiplication. Movies suck and I hate them.

This is such a well produced and entertaining first looks at this industry. I’ve just been getting into film, and this was an awesome first introduction. I hope you blow up, your videos are phenomenal.

My cat, who is normally running about the place at high speeds, sat down in front of the TV to watch the entire video. Good Work!

I know all countries cannot be covered but I feel many forget the influence Mexican Cinema had during their golden era from 1936-1956, during this time many Mexican films and directors reached internacional recognition. While other countries were busy in world wars. Mexican Cinema was pumping out musical films, film noir, comedies and horror films. Using outside cinematic influences to create their own style. In fact the Academy awards oscar statue is said to be designed after famed golden era Mexican director Emilio Fernandez. Read: MORA, Carl J. Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, Berkeley: University of California Press, 3rd edition 2005.

4:28 The following "fun fact" is actually incorrect. L'entrée d'un train en Gare (the frech title of the film) did not actually scare the audience out of their seats, since film projections were a thing for about a year in Paris; everyone knew this was not real. Journalists at the time simply wanted to make this story to something that physically moved the audience, obviously stretching the reality of a simple screening to the current reputation of the short. You can define the term "Yellow Journalism" for these extreme depictions of actual facts, the original FAKE NEWS.

love your videos man, I don't have too many friends that are into cinema as much as me, but the ones that are I always share your vids with! you deserve way more recognition, brother. plz keep up the amazing work!!!

Great video, thanks for your work. As a Polish I'd also recommend Polish Film School movement (Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and diamonds", Wojciech Has's "How to be loved", Andrzej Munk's "Passenger", Jerzy Kawalerowicz's "Night train" - that's for starters) and Cinema of moral anxiety (Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Camera Buff", Agnieszka Holland's "Provincial Actors", Krzysztof Zanussi's "Camouflage" and Andrzej Wajda's "Man of marble")

Just finished the video, I loved this so much--wish you more views and recognition. Keep it up, dude.

Another amazing video. Really puts into perspective how confined a typical moviegoer’s view of cinema as a whole is. Going to make it my goal to watch all of these movies (even though it might take a while).

my god, the personality of this channel is so fun

0:37 definitely Morbius. Greatest of all time.

man oh man what a great start-up for the beginners in the cinema I mean what can I say you said it all. thank you for sharing with us your great knowledge.

Amazing video man, included everything from the first horse motion film to A24, hats off for such a fantastic and informative presentation!

From celluloid, to cutting/edditing, from frames, to sound and finally to color. What a journey

Long boring lectures that i got from my lecturer are summarized in 46 minutes of very interesting video. Thank you!

this video is so well done and didactic, i have no words to thank for it

One of the best videos on film on RU-vid. Very interesting.

this is great, but i would love it even more if you put in a subtitle track with the titles of the films you're showing on screen so we could more easily do our homework

What a great video, you deserve way more subscribers. Keep up the good work!

Help, I thought the Kinopill was a suppository and now I have cinema coming out of my ass.

Great video! I’m excited to watch a lot of these because I’ve only seen one or two

You perfectly put into words why I love film!

So thankful for the list 🙏🏻

The best intro ever seen!! Definitely the kino pill

Fantastic video, very interesting. I keep pausing to write the names of films I should watch. Thank you.

“ commercially and artistically “ great content man

Excellent work, thanks!

Great work! ❤👍

Bro thanks , this really helped me grow my movie taste 🙏😎👌

Bro this is insane. Amazing history lesson. Thanks.

this is amazing

Feels good to be Based & KinoPilled

Great video, thanks!

Great as always, kino

Oh this is gonna be great! Thanks Kino~

Awesome video man!

Great video!!

Fantastic video

Insane video. thank you

Ironic that I got a She-Hulk ad before this video lol.

Thank you for this video!

I'm just glad that you mentioned mizoguchi and ozo. Thank you.

Well done & my thanks

Great Job men... nice video....

um no cuz this was really well done. thank you kino

Excellent video, thanks for taking the time to put this important history lesson in order.

No one actually thought they would be hit by a train it's a historic hyperbole to describe the feeling of being in the room and a testament to the power of illusion.

I love your narration. You have a very likable style. Subscribed.

Heaven’s Gate’s critical reception “tepid”? Vincent Canby in the New Yorker: “An unqualified disaster.” Pauline Kael in The New Yorker: “While watching the film it was easy to see what to cut. But then I thought about what to keep, and my mind went blank.” Kathleen Carroll on the TODAY show: “This film has nothing. The more you watched, there was nothing on that screen. Nothing at all!”

I like this channel. This dude is like AVGN from the parallel universe, where beer doesn't exist.

I learned a lot thanks Owen Wilson

AMAZING! you are GREAT.

Great Video. Nice editing and story telling. Good job !

This video was more comprehensive than my entire History of Film class in college

I thought weird that when you hit WW2, you recommended movies about WW2 rather than movies produced during WW2 which is what you were doing for time periods up until then.

I think I love you just for making that one very specific American Psycho reference.

great video

very good breakdown. looking forward to more high quality essays like this one. liked and commented for the algo

Great video.

17:51 Impressive, Very nice

my favorite directors as of now are Noah baumbach, Edgar Wright, Robert Eggers, Steve McQueen, David Lowery, Damien Chazelle, David Fincher, John Kraskinski, Matt Reeves, Coen brothers, and Wes Anderson/Christopher Nolan/Jordan Peele

I think the history of film is super interesting and I really really enjoy film now. But I enjoy modern movies more, where the visuals and audio are pretty good. I do enjoy a lot of older movies from the 70s and up, But I’ve never watched citizen Kane or most the movies you mentioned in the video. Maybe someday something will spark my interest and throw me down the rabbit hole.

Even as a big movie collector myself, this video was really interesting! (Although i wished the world tour part would've touched on canadian films, since some of the best movies were made there)

4:30 this part is well known to be a legend, people didnt freak out when the train showed up

Good post Kino

Ayo this is bars my neighbor. Bars 🔥

very nice video

This is epic.

Personally I think the period from the 1970's to the early 1990's marks Hollywood's greatest period. I know I'm biased, being born in 1986, but I absolutely love those first few decades of blockbuster filmmaking. The concepts of most high budget blockbustes of the era were pure audience pandering (aliens, robots, dinosaurs, ect) BUT the mindest of financers and producers ate the time genuinly seemed to be that the artists themselves knew best on how to deliver on those concepts. This gave us high-flying, fantastical, high-concept movies that nevertheless had artistic ambition and reflected the personality of the individual directors, scrip-writers, ect. E.T, the original Star Wars trilogy, Ghostbusters, the Back to the Future trilogy, Blade Runner, the first two Terminator films, Jurassic Park ect... they all existed in that sweet spot between the studios need to make money and the artists own tastes. Come the mid 90's however blockbuster films became gradually safer and less colored by individual artistic visions, and also the increased use of CGI often became sort of a crutch to compensate for lackluster stories. Tere were still of course also still artistically driven blockbusters even thoughout the 00's, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But by the 2010's for the most part blockbuster filmmaking no longer had much to do with art, and the movies' content were dictated not so much by writers and directors but by producers, executives, financers and focus groups. So now we are swamped by thse bland, artistically interchangable movies, possibly best examplified by the MCU. Only a few directors in Hollywood are still essentially given a blank check to do whatever they please even when making ultra-expensive mastodon movies and can thus make their individual visions come true, such as Christopher Noland and Quentin Tarantino. These directors for one reason or another are still treated by studios the way most directors were treated by studios 35 years ago; the studios asuming that these artistis knows what will make for a good and thus popular movie better than the studios knows. But when the day comes when these auteurs' makes a movie or two that flops, even these last of the "exception to the rule" blockbuster directors will have to play by the common, corporatized rules.

I like the way you talk, I feel like you're telling me a very important secret

I just now noticed the Satyricon poster behind you to your right. Love that fucking movie so much. Based taste.

great video! found this because of your letterboxd list and got confused when i saw evangelion on it. were you really referring to the tv series or one of the movies that's part of the series, like the end of evangelion?

Merci !

Hey man, I've been getting quite into Czech new wave recently. Got any hot takes? Recommendations? Absolutely loved Ucho, Daisies, The Cremator, Closely Watched Trains and everything by Milos Forman. Tangentially related, but also a big fan of Svankmajer, obviously.

One day am gonna make such essay and use your footage ...thanks

its not exactly "high art", but The Irony Of Fate is a classic Soviet romantic comedy that's definitely worth a watch.

17:54 nice reference!

Interesting stuff. I should check out your other videos.

17:52 thought you were going to segue into Huey Lewis monologue from American Psycho. 😁

I understood so many Simpsons references I never knew about watching this :D

I woke up today tied to a chair with this video playing on repeat. Someone please send help there is a man in the corner mumbling, “it’s gonna be kino”

I want to say that I hope I'm not the only one who's familiar with some of the background music used in this video through H-game.

I hope you have a filmfreeway account and are on your way to submitting some of your videos into some festival for documentary short subject categories, or episodic categories. Your videos are great stories, plain and simple.

Pity you did not mention the film maker 'Abel Gance' and his film "Napoleon" which he made many improvements to filming techniques still used to this day.

I go out of my way to watch movies that I don't think I would like due to the fact that I want to be surprised and when they blow me out of the water they really do

I am now an expert film beginner

this is the history of cinema

Love your homage to the Matrix!

"for stuff the whole family can enjoy watch THE GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES"

I started crying at the end. I couldn’t even imagine corporatism going to such lengths as to cinemas being monopolized again. Of course I never lived through it the first time around but it just gives me an icky feeling. I guess we will always have smaller theaters probably but it still makes me sick to think that the creativity of filmmakers could be squashed by money hungry companies who could dissolve our entire understanding of cinemas as we know it. I don’t want to grow old and talk about cinemas like it’s some dinosaur or unicorn that’s gone extinct, I already can barely bare that dvd stores are so hard to come by. This is just a stupid rant but I’m just happy to know there are still people out there that value film.

what movie is that clip from, during 34:05? It's beautiful and I want to steal it.

WHAT IF YOU TAKE BOTH PILLS?

What a good vid