The Golden Age of Hollywood: Crash Course Film History #11 

Whoever is behind the illustrations and visuals I just wanna give you a huge hug because I'm a visual learner and I would not be able to follow without you. 😘💖💗

I enjoy the running joke that Craig doesn't know what Citizen Kane is.

Craig, you look great in the thumbnail 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I love this series, but wouldn't it be cool if there was a Crash Course for Animation History?

this is a great and very interesting series!! i personally do not study or at all are interested in film history but this series have changed my look on cinema! Thanks Crash Course!

It's been over 2 weeks. I was terrified I was going to have to wait another week before the next video. I'm so excited now!

YES!!! I can now have a good weekend and some movies to watch for the weekend too! This is likely my favorite CrashCourse.

This has since become my favorite RU-vid series. Thank you, CrashCourse, for making this great show.

I love this series. Especially since I really want to be a film historian.

Yes! My prayers have been answered.

No eagles were harmed in the production of this episode

Hey guys, thank you so much for every single episode, each one is exceptionally well crafted and interesting. Crash Course is truly one of the highest quality educational resources out there. My favorites are philosophy and film history. I really wish I had time to sit around every day and watch every single series. I was wondering if there are any plans for a history of photography or simply a photography series? Thanks again for being so consistently amazing! Cheers

will you guys talk more about animated films in the future? it'd be interesting to see how they've changed over the past century

lots of love and support to whole team of crash course you are doing its awesome keep it up

I love this episode! It's beautiful how you give us a visual comparison of the cinema screens, something I had never thought of too deeply before! I was just reading American Cinema / American Culture, and realized how much of some films are lost at TV.

I love looking at the history of Hollywood. Thanks for sharing!

Forgot how much I love these series

this is so rad, this video talked about basically all the stuff I didn't get to revising today for my film analysis exam next week

I love this series!

This is such an interesting topic. I wish these episodes were three times longer!

from 4:07 to 4:14 , I like that visual aethesetic the way it looks splotchy and how there are chaotic stains floating in the air

thanks for giving James Cagney -- especially "Footlight Parade" -- a shout-out!

AT 4:55, thanks for giving recognition to Shindi and Maxwell's 3-color process. It's nice to know that Crash Course writers are aware of the other presentations. (You earned a click even without that.)

Yes! A new Film History video!!

I loved how the aspect ratios were shown in this video.

nice video this is the best you tube channel and I like it most because it has everything it has physics ,chemistry biology English literature philosophy and much more it's like all in one box love to all who are connected to this channel . I know everyone loves this channel isn't it ??????

LOVE this series!!

Wow, really cool Crash Course, thanks a lot!

That thumbnail with Wheezy as Dorothy is the best.

I suggest to add in the description a list of movies recommendations related to the topic or era(In addition to the ones that are mentioned during the video). Which I think are great to watch while we wait for the next episode. :)

This is the fastest way to learn. Great work

This is my favourite era!!

Now I finally understand the widescreen setting in the early to mid-2000's DVD menu choices before the movie.

Abel Gance's NAPOLÈON (1927) has an early 3-strip film sequence that was pretty much a 4:1 aspect ratio. Also, fun fact: the guy who invented Cinerama also invented water skis.

I would LOVE to see a Crash Course: Art History

Can't wait for the next season of Crash Course Physics with wheezywaiter

the movie industry could use some innovation today.

I *love* the cinematic version of the CrashCourse theme! Has a full version been produced which I could purchase in order to listen to for my own enjoyment, or is the tune (in its shortened components) used exclusively for the Crash Course Film History videos?

Thank you this was helpful

I'm a film student and I've finally, FINALLY, understood what the hell an anamorphic lens does.

Cool video!

i LEARNED SO MUCH!

Somewhere over the rainbow, Craig up high... 🐺🍊💖🐯

Wowww , they wya you recapped man, that’s fuxking amazing teaching right there

Who else is watching these for fun?

Really good

Thanks for the shout-out to CC Physics

He didn't punch the eagle!

We need spin off videos to go into more detail on each genre director or technology

Just a slight correction, Technicolor was actually replaced in the 50s with 1 roll color film, that uses 3 layers of color/light sensitive material on 1 role, not 3 separate ones. Which would mean that you can put it in the same camera as you use for black and white film, which was waaaay smaller than a Technicolor camera. And THAT technology was used until digital.

Please do a series on Music History!!!

Will you eventually be doing a timeline of your videos? It's starting to get tricky to figure out what happened when.

Pinocchio (1940) is my number one favorite full length animated Disney (1923-) film while Fantasia (1940) is my second favorite full length animated Disney (1923-) film.

amazing you need more views

It's videos like these that make me wonder when the next "Golden Age" of Movies will be. Are we already in it? How many movies that we see in theaters will be considered classics or timeless in 20 or 30 years? It's amazing to think about

"You gotta have glorious Technicolor, breathtaking CinemaScope, and Stereophonic Sound!" (Silk Stockings, 1957)

Interesting! Would it be possible to have access to the script in order to work on this in English class?

No punch to the Eagle this time?!

I use 21:9 monitor and it's the best thing ever... for gaming, work and movies.

I know this is already three years old, but someone needs to point out that Mr. Benzine leaves out the most common film aspect ratio used for fifty years (pre-digital), while incorrectly asserting that most movies were made in the widescreen/anamorphic/2.35:1 aspect ratio. This is simply not true. That shape (and the lenses it requires) was reserved for spectacles and big action films (with slightly bigger budgets), while all the dramas and comedies (constituting the majority of studio releases) were being made in the most common aspect ratio of all, the one that's never mentioned here: 1.85:1. Early on Benzine refers to 16:9, but not only is this a term that was never referred to before the late nineties/early 2000s, its equivalent is 1.77:1, which is not a film format at all. It is, however, close enough to 16:9 that movies shot in 1.85:1 either lose a little bit of image on the right and left, gain a very thin letterbox top and bottom, or (say it ain't so!) get slightly squeezed. But given the dominance of 1.85:1 material out there, it strikes me as bad form to never mention it.

Small error: 16:9 is a video and television aspect ratio. The aspect ratio of standard widescreen films is 1.85:1. That's why when you watch these movies on your widescreen television (that is 16:9), you still get thin black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

NICE

I play all these videos at .75 and sometimes craig sounds high but most of the time i understand more.

what film is it at 5:43, is that the technicolor version of Shanghai express? thanks for the great series crash course!

You have a copy of 'How NOT to Write a Screenplay' by Denny Martin Flinn in the background! I own AND love that book!

Where did yo buy the inventions or the toys of cinema 🎬🎞📽📹🎥???

Great info. Really enjoyed the history. Slow down a bit though. What's the rush?

Awesome. Love it :D

hahaha Craig as Dorothy in the thumbnail!

What's up with there not being an eagle punch?

My series is back!!!!!

Hey Vsauce, it's Micheal here!! Seriously this dude looks like him!!😆

0:53 4th man on the right in the cinema line looks like Will Wheaton

I love this series! Will you guys do an episode on Bollywood?

A Crash Course Finance and Economic History would be great.

Thank you

WHAT ABOUT THE EAGLE?! THIS IS SECOND TIME YOU DIDN"T PUNCH THE EAGLE IN THIS SERIES! DX Anyways, great episode none the less.

can i get a list of the books in the background please?

My local Kmart is closing and they have a big "sale" for all their stuff. They have, like, 20 of those Rey and Kylo figures that are 20% off. I'm debating getting a set, but I would still be out about $40 or so.

Now that's an RKO out of nowhere!

I don't know about you guys but i'm feeling pretty lucky to be able to watch this on my personal smartphone seeing what these people have to deal with. Heil to the smartphone, the greatest invention of our century yet.

How come you show film strips as "horizontal" at 5:55 and 7:56? Wasn't it just VistaVision that ran the film stock horizontally through the camera? And shouldn't you say the "point" when you refer to 2.55:1 and 2.35:1 aspect ratios (at 8:04 and 8:20)?

hey guys you should put in the description the movies mentioned in the video and maybe some other suggestions!! :)))

What’s the name of the film at 5:44 ?

What are people's top 5 films? Mine are: 5. La La Land 4. Groundhog Day 3. Lotr trilogy 2. The big lebowski 1. Lost in translation

Can you do the history of photography if you already haven't :)

I wonder if this will be a part of art history in a couple hundred years

No eagle punching... again.

What happened to Columbia Picture Studios who produced such hits as: ' Born Yesterday', ' Picnic' and 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. They also had mega star's: William Holden, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford under contract???

"Can I do a dance number next?" says Craig, only because it's in the script. "Nope," says an off-camera voice. "Whew, that was a close one!" thinks Craig. "I was really taking a risk there."

This is a top notch explanation yet color films were still rare until the late 1950's. We had three breakthrough films around 1938-39 in color ( Gone w/ the Wind, Adventures of Robin Hood, Wizard of Oz)....but black and white remained the norm until mid to late 50's. Low budget films were still being made in B&W up to about 1964. So it is risky to claim that the Golden Age had color films as a major component, since color was rare. I assume cost was the deciding factor ?

I am guessing that Part 12 will focus on Italian Neo-Realism and the French new wave era of cinema.

0:42 no don't stop, do that for the entire episode XD

Pls also make an episode on the contemporary indian cinema which also took shape in the very same era and was actually more bold that time

And now you know why widescreen movies squished to fit a 4x3 Academy aspect DVD are called anamorphic.

"It's the golden age of INDIA" - Sorry I love Bill Wurtz, great vid 😂

Looking forward to tomorrow's episode. Definitely need a film renaissance with the horrible unoriginal schlock we've been getting.

I know it may sound weird, but I think there needs to be at least one episode on adult movies, given their huge impact on Cinema, especially covering the era around Deep Throat

Actually, at least in North America, widescreen as a cinema standard generally refers to an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which is slightly wider than the now-standard TV ratio of 16:9 (1.77:1). Despite how common 16:9 TV screens are, 1.85:1 is still the standard for cinema, which is why you can often see slight letterboxing when you play theatrically released widescreen movies on a 16:9 TV. This is also why 4K and 2K are technically different formats from 1080p and UHD. The former are cinema formats (1.85:1), and the latter are TV formats (16:9). It's still uncommon for films to be projected theatrically at 16:9, although I'm sure that will change. Also confusing: of the two most common aspect ratios used today, widescreen is the less wide (the other is scope, 2.35:1).

So this makes me wonder about the oft-repeated claim that movies went "widescreen" as a direct result of television. Any opinion on that? It's pretty obvious that TV's common 4:3 ratio was chosen specifically to match the Academy Aperture format. But wider movies had existed before TV's release. Is there actual evidence that wide screen movies (other than Cinerama and similar ultra-wide, ultra-expensive formats,) were a direct response to television?