What Can We Learn From the Second Oscars?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- The second Academy Awards should perhaps instead be called the final stand against silent films. The Jazz Singer had been released not even two years earlier, but already the film industry was barreling towards a world without Chaplin and Pickford. Because of that, it means this second ceremony is full of misfires and movies that make you question what Hollywood could possibly be thinking... but that's what makes it so fascinating to study! In this video, we're going to learn everything there is to know about the second Oscars, and I promise you that it is more than you think!
00:00 Introduction
02:21 Changes from the First Ceremony
04:10 Best Picture
20:37 Best Writing
32:46 Best Cinematography
38:08 Best Art Direction
42:31 Best Actor
49:48 Best Director
55:00 Best Actress
The premiere of The Broadway Melody and The Divine Lady: • Footage of The Broadwa... - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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It looks like I made a typo around the 1:40 mark! "Best Diretor" obviously refers to "Best Director"... my mistake! Beyond that error, what did you think of the video? And what future ceremonies should I cover? I am planning on doing a poll soon where you can help me decide just that, and so if you want to take part, make sure you're subscribed to the channel so that you don't miss it. Thank you for watching :)
Really interesting video, looking forward to more of this series. The Patriot is one of the lost films that I would most love to see turn up one day. Lubitsch in Hollywood was known mostly for his witty comedies, but in Germany he had showed a dab hand at making big-scale historical epics as well, like Madame DuBarry. I read somewhere that Lubitsch and Cecil B. DeMille sort of followed opposite career paths: DeMille started out making sophisticated comedies before becoming famous for his historical epics, while with Lubitsch it was the other way around.
Ok stop it already! Youre work is too entertaining, too informative. I couldnt stop watching and now I'm late for an appointment. Youtubing will not be accepted as an excuse so now i have to throw myself down a flight of stairs. Great work as usual and ive learned something vitally important. Not only do i want to see Dynamite, i want a faithful remake as soon as possible.
Thank you so much! That's an amazing compliment and I'm glad the video brought you so much value. I need to sign a petition for that Dynamite remake!
"In Old Arizona" has a pretty theme song: "My Tonia." (tone-ya)
Love the video!! Look forward to you covering more of the early years of the academy!
Thank you so much for watching!
Love this series! After watching the broadway melody i always wondered if anything else in the year was a snubbed, hidden classic, kind of relieved there wasn’t one to be honest
Thank you so much! Yeah nothing too great haha. Maybe I would’ve preferred an In Old Arizona win, but The Broadway Melody is fine enough.
Absolutely fantastic overview of this Oscar year! Wonderful!
Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you!
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger It was so interesting! I couldn't stop! :)
Oh my god this has somehow become one of my favorite series on youtube after a couple episodes (at least in this order), keep up the great work!
Wow, what a huge compliment! I plan on it :) thank you for watching both of them!
This is so interesting and so well done! Can't wait to see more ceremonies. I really enjoy hearing about the oldest ceremonies, especially as film goes from silent pictures to sound. Keep up the awesome work - it's obvious you did your research and put a lot into these.
Thank you so much! :) I am glad you enjoyed it!
Your video essays are quite impressive. I'm positive these videos will be a slow burn with the views and subscribers and climb to great heights in time. Ive always been interested in old time Hollywood, especially the silent era it feels like a different world.
I look forward to your next video.
That’s super nice of you to say! I hope so! :)
Great info here! These movies from the very beginning of the Academy Awards, almost 100 years now, must have been very difficult to research. 😓 Hopefully it gets easier. Again, awesome content!
Thank you for checking it out! It certainly will get easier, but I imagine it will be harder to cover it all in an efficient way haha.
Amazing work! I'm so hyped for this journey! Your enthousiasm is contagious!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you’re along for the ride! :)
found your channel today, and i just watched this video and the one on the first ceremony in a row. both really good and ill definitely be tuning on for all the others!! my favorite 1929 movie didn't get any nominations, it's called lady of the pavement. also my favorite silent movie in general. someone on letterboxd described it as a demented version of pygmalion and it really is just that. it's also just amazing to see lupe vélez in a movie that isn't offensive to latin americans. i adore the 30s and 40s so really, equally exciting for those years. cant wait!!
also im now very curious about dynamite. demille definitely isn't the guy with the most well developed and cohesive plots but he was the guy with the most plots
Thank you for checking it out! I will definitely be watching Lady of the Pavements; I added it to my watchlist! It sounds very interesting and I'm always on the lookout for the first D.W. Griffith film I'll actually enjoy haha
Loveeeee this video !!! Your commentary and humor always keep me watching ! 🤩💫
Thank you so much !! :)
Im loving this series
Thanks so much for watching!
Strong content, great job. I do wish your mic was louder and sound effects were a bit quieter, but eh - this is educational and entertaining. I'm subscribing! At the end you ask, "What's your favorite of these" and I'm all, well, I've heard of two: "Coquette" and "Broadway Melody", perhaps because they're famous for the wrong reasons: Pickford's "lobbying" (which I'm also cool with; she was the Queen of the Screen for almost 2 decades) and "Melody" being the worst Best Picture: take away its age, and I'm not so sure. For that matter, never mind "Melody", what I've seen of "Coquette" was unendurable, or at least Pickford was unendurable. I wish she had rolled the dice around 1920 or so and cut the dang curls off. By the late 20s, it was too late. I suppose some sociologist needs to explain to us why America in the Teens and Twenties was so interested in an attractive woman - not Marilyn Monroe or even early Joan Crawford, but still quite attractive - performing roles for 12 year old girls. My opinion: 😐 I tell you one thing that I'd want to see: A Lubitsch movie starring Emil Jannings. Gawd, how did that go missing? I guess the film caught on fire? Tragic. Anyway, thanks for the info, sorry for writing a novel.
Thank you so much! I don't mind an essay, haha. I appreciate your feedback and will work on improving the mic!
Add "State of the Union" to "Keeper of the Flame"
These are great videos!
Gtreat research, great,video-thank you!
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support :)
The Patriot may have been least likely to win but it was probably the best one regardless.
The Broadway Melody is definitely not as unwatchable as Cimarron
They are both on bluray! :)
Yeah, not looking forward to that one haha.
I haven't seen The Broadway Melody, but it took all of the cinephile in me to get through Cimarron.
@@ArthurSanford3706 I almost never give up but I had to tap out after an hour; I couldn't take it
I really like your content and the way you discuss movie history is very interesting.
Also I know this unrelated to the Broadway video but what are your thoughts on physical media slowly dying off?
Thank you for watching! I appreciate the kind words :) also I think it’s definitely a shame but I do have high hopes that it is maybe more of a short break than a full-blown death. I feel like the rise of AI is going to cripple the internet to the point that maybe 75-80% of what we see online is AI-generated, and I think that will send millions of people away from the internet and towards finite things they can truly trust. I suspect DVDs will come back into fashion and then perhaps some new format with a focus on affordability and aesthetic for mass consumption. Maybe that’s just a pipe dream, but I think physical media is too valuable for it to ever die.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger I hope that’s the case for physical media because I genuinely don’t not like streaming sure it’s convenient but compared to physical media it pretty lacking because unlike physical media where you own forever streaming companies can take it away from you due to license issues which just sucks.
Streaming services also lack personality compared to physical media because with DVDs you had these cool animated menus that would always get me excited for movie but with streaming services you just start it and that’s it not interesting menu or cool UI just a bland corporate menu with a bunch of blocks.
I've been getting really into retrospective screenings recently, and that to me is the peak way to watch older films. A lot of these experiences have been projected on film, which feels like a different movie entirely when compared to what you find on streaming. But I understand I am lucky to be near these screenings, as they aren't available everywhere.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger Just curious but would you hate me if I say that I still collect DVDs because I don’t collect DVDs because I’m out of touch but because Blu-Ray and 4K are too expensive and with DVDs you have a better selection compared to Blu-Ray and 4K.
It looked like Jean Eagles died of an overdose of chloral hydrate - this is the same drug that did in Marilyn Monroe..
It's a lousy idea to let one man control an awards ceremony?
Are you referring to Louis B Mayer? In general, I think that, yes, one person controlling a large ceremony is not very practical.
@@whenthepicturesgotbigger Yep. In Alternate Oscars, Danny Peary noted that Mayer anticipated that no one would notice that most of the awards at the second ceremony went to MGM because he had been so "unselfish" in the first year. Didn't work at all, which is why future awards would be decided by the entire Academy membership.
@@kali3665 Oh wow, I love that anecdote! I hadn’t heard of that but it makes a lot of sense. I’ve been meaning to read Peary’s book for a while now.