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Journal of e-Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 1: Early Cinema History (Understanding Visual Culture Through Silent Film Collections)

Musser Endnote 65

As a result, our understanding of the production of motion pictures as factory-like is located in different places. They see it within the process of negative film production, while I would locate factory-like standardization in two phases: The first is in the assembly of prints in the 1910s. The women who spent their days splicing together shots in an order already established by the producer-director were quite literally working on an assembly line. The second area of standardization was in the process of exhibition as projectionists screened the same film again and again to audiences. Negative production was really the creation of a template. Filmmakers had their counterparts in those who designed cars, not those who assembled them.

 

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