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If film is the art form of the twentieth century, what film was the tipping point?
Assuming that film is the art form of the twentieth century at what point did it stop being just entertainment and become an art form?
Or do you think that to divide entertainment and art is false, one does not preclude the other?
In Either case at what point did film become an art form, is there a period or specific film that you can identify, or would you think that film is the art form of the twentieth century simply as it did not exist prior to that point in time?
I'm interested in any thoughts on this and I've another question along the same lines that I'll be posting soon, thanks
I assume you are not speaking of what some feel today is "an art film" or a independent "serious" film with a niche audience, rather than a mass audience.
I think the first films were made in Edison's studios in the 1880s. Whether it was "art" or a "craft" from the very beginning is difficult to define. My own personal opinion is it metamorphosed from the "film making craft" into a number of "art forms" in the late 1920s or 1930s with sound, color, story content, etc.
Film is 'a' art form, not 'the' art form of the twentieth Century because there was such a variety of modern technologies attached to the more traditional forms of art last Century (I am think computer graphics for example).
As a specific film, maybe "The Great Train Robbery" 1903. This was the first film narrative film with a storyline, the first film shot out of chronological sequence and utilized cross-cutting or parallel action. It also was the first "hit" of cinema, appealing to a massive audience, which would probably take it out of the category of being an "art film" today.
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