• For Andre Bazin, why did the "classical" period in Hollywood end in 1939?

Bazin proposed that until 1939, film in Hollywood was "based on the principles of continuity editing" (Kramer, 64).  Although Bazin approved and was impressed with what Hollywood film had become by 1939, he knew that just like any other art form, its techniques could not continue on without progressing into something new.  He knew that that was an impossible idea.  Bazin claimed that this new realism style that developed in Hollywood depended on "bringing together real time, in which things exist, along with the duration of the action, for which classical editing had insidiously substituted mental and abstract time" (64).

• What was Gilbert Seldes's main critique of Hollywood in his book, "The Great Audience?"
  

Seldes believed that Hollywood "catered" to the popular culture or the younger crowds incredibly too much.  This is what he blamed for the decline in Movie goers in the 1940's.  He claimed that Hollywood should begin to aim their film topics and such towards adults rather than teens, because although those films temporarily succeeded with its audiences they wouldnt be so popular once those crowds reached the real world.  Seldes thought that the films Hollywood had begun to spew out in the WWII period were unrealistic and sugar coated in comparison to the much rougher world that was nearly never displayed on the big screens.