Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart

Ingrid Bergmann

almost 100

As Time Goes By

Everybody comes to Rick's

World War II

- the French national anthem, written during the era of the French Revolution about fighting for freedom from political repression.
- represents a free France,

luck
neutrality
the past

Hal Wallis

MGM
WB
Paramount
RKO
Universal

- heavily censored regarded sex violence and controversial content by the Hays Code
- films had to show the 'correct standard of life' with no sympathy or crime, evil and sin

- filmed almost entirely on a production lot at Burbank California
- only one location shot - airport scene. a set piece and matte painting made LA airport into Casablanca

1920s to early 1950s

paramount decision - stopped horizontal integration in the film industry - film company can't own both production company and film theatres

- politics - ww2 + rick
- production - Hays code + censorship
- production - rear projection + matte painting / Burbank studio filming

- americas isolationism in the lone wolf - staying out of Europe's politics
- in the aftermath of the great depression Americans were reluctant to join political affairs of Europe
- however due to the move from isolationism to encouragement from the government for pro war propaganda rick sided with lazslo and the resistance

Syuzhet and Fabula

- belonged to production companies
- 7 year contract
- the film companies created identities for them, going so far as orchestrating marriages and changing names

- oligopoly - the big 5
- churned out hundreds of films at alarming rates due to reusing set pieces, actors and horizontal integration

- 4 films per year as a 'Hal B. Wallis Production'
- wrote over 500 notes/memos to influence production

- the director