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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 he'd been saying since 1906. >> you ain't heard nothing yet. wait a minute. you ain't heard nothing. >> he said that when they were recording the audio so the first words we hear in dialogue in a film were, you ain't heard nothing yet. >> the first full talking feature, "lights of new york," is a very dull pseudo gangster film with people you've never heard of sitting around a table and a telephone in the middle where, obviously, t...

>> bus berkeley knew it was a new medium. and the way they'd have the sets basically move with the choreography was amazing. ♪ nothing's 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 surrounded by hopelessness when they see this buoyant and brilliant and comic number that would have...

>> has the war started? >> if you're 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 don't know. i don't know. >> the black characters played by hattie mcdaniel and butterfly mcqueen are really the best characters in the movie. they're 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 a door mat and then mamie in the center of all of this. >> it's mr. rhett i'm worried about. >> ...

Audiences. >> in the very early days of cinema, it's 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 ain't 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." >> i think that's enough for today, don't you? >> she was incredibly prolific. she has a huge f...

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. >> wouldn't you like someone to be in love with you? >> yes, gabrielle. i would like someone in love with me. >> do you think i'm at...