The IMR

The IMR is the 'institutional mode of representation' - This is the style of films that developed during the classic era of Hollywood and continues to this day.

The Primitive Style

- First films made by The Lumiere Brothers 1895
- Movie making that predates classical Hollywood continuity system
- Frontal staging/ tableau style and barely any camera movement
- Silent, very over dramatic mime

Lumiere Brothers - first films 1895 
Early 1895, the brothers had invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it the Cinématographe which was hand cranked. Most of the films The Lumiere Brothers made were films of people doing ordinary things, photographing the world around them known as 'actuality films' such as people leaving a factory.

1902 Le Voyage dans la Lune by George Melies

- Early special effects
- Development of genres and tropes, e.g. It creates tropes of sci-fi   movies such as aliens
- Development of stories and narrative

Birth of a nation 1915 by DW Griffith

- Dramatic scenes made using fast cuts
- Lengthy epic narrative
- Subtitles
- Filmed at night, used tinting and panning
- Perfected close-ups
- Cross cutting and other varied camera angles

He only used one camera to do all of this, and created the IMR we know today.

Montage editing

Eisenstein 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925)
Montage editing is used in the Odessa Steps scene. It goes against continuity editing. This is also used in the scene in Hitchcock's psycho where Marion is killed.

The Jazz Singer (1927) by Al Jolson

- The first 'talkie' film, where spoken dialogue is used throughout
the film, and where music is used on the filmstrip itself. The technology advanced in the 1920s when Bell Laboratories developed a way to allow an audio track to be placed on the film itself.