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Some folks have none ♪ >> jolson always talked to his audience. it was one of the things he was known for was his patter. and specifically, his catch phrase which hed been saying since 1906. >> you aint heard nothing yet. wait a minute. you aint heard nothing. >> he said that when they were recording the audio so the first words we hear in dialogue in a film were, you aint heard nothing yet. >> the first full talking feature, "lights of new york," is a very dull pseudo gangster film with peopl...

>> bus berkeley knew it was a new medium. and the way theyd have the sets basically move with the choreography was amazing. ♪ nothings impossible i have found ♪ ♪ when my chin is on the ground i pick myself up dust myself off and start all over again ♪ >> my father was under contract at rko, and they asked him to make a musical. i think what he brought to astaire and rogers was a kind of believability. ♪ start all over again >> seeing that film during the depression where people are su...

>> has the war started? >> if youre going to tell that story, you have to have black people as slaves. >> ms. scarlett, what we are going to do with nothing to feed those sick folks and that child? >> i dont know. i dont know. >> the black characters played by hattie mcdaniel and butterfly mcqueen are really the best characters in the movie. theyre the only, in a weird way, moral characters. rhett essentially rapes his wife. scarlett is a disaster. ashley wilkes is just the weakling. melanie is ...

Audiences. >> in the very early days of cinema, its easier, not only for african-americans, but also for women to get into the industry. >> it was considered the norm to have women in all levels of hollywood. they were directors. half of all films written between 1912 and 1921 were written by women. >> we aint telling nobody until we get ready to make the break outside of you. >> "the big house" was one of two films that francis marion won her oscars for. the other film, of course, is "the champ...

Made, morocco, blond venus, the devil is a woman," almost nothing happened in these movies. they were nonnarrative. just staging this spectacle of desire and beauty. >> in the 1930s, it was estimated that about 70% of a movie-going audience was female. and the more women in the audience you get, the more they crave strong female characters. >> these female movie stars really ruled the box office. and often were getting paid much more than their male counterparts. >> wouldnt you like someone to b...

>> has the war started? >> if youre going to tell that story, you have to have black people as slaves. >> ms. scarlet, what we are going to do with nothing to feed those sick folks and that child? >> i dont know. i dont know. >> the black characters played by haddie mcdonnell and butterfly mcqueen are really the best characters in the movie. theyre the only, in a weird way, moral characters. rhett essentially rapes his wife. scarlet is a disaster. ashley wilkes is just the weakling. melanie is a...

Ostensibly a detective story but the plot revolves around all these crazy characters looking for the black bird and how sam spade plays these characters off each other. >> youre good. youre very good. >> what did he say? >> about what? >> about me. >> nothing. >> what did you talk about then? >> he offered me $5,000 for the black bird. >> my father was not that big a fan of actors. if you watch his movies, hes more interested in character. i think this was why he loved humphrey bogart so much. >...

To going to a movie like ben hur. it was just not the kind of thing that anybody had seen at that time. >> movies had to get off their lawyers not lays around and lets make going to the cinema an even more extraordinary experience. then after television comes along, some of the great musicals of all time come along as a result of that. ♪ good morning, good morning its great to stay up late good morning good morning to you. ♪. >> singing in the rain is the perfect movie. its fun and its beaut...

Bette davis. however the winner was judy holliday who had just risen to overnight fame in "born yesterday." >> what did you say it for? >> i dont know. how old are you? >> 29. >> its entertainment in your own living room and all over the country movie audiences of all ages sit glued to their television sets. the picture may be small but its free. >> probably the most serious threat to movies came in the 1950s when people were ooh buying televisions. biblical exspansive epics in the 50s were one ...

With singing in the rain? i said it will be raining and ill be singing. you know. and that was it. so it wasnt very hard really to compose it. >> the moment of splashing the water. >> that part was fun. ♪ clang, clang clang went the trolley ♪ ♪ ding, ding, ding went the bell ♪ >> when you come along with vincent minnelli making "meet me in st. louis" and "american in paris" and "the bandwagon," you have such originality, such joy and such works that stand the test of time. ♪ you want t...