Silent Film - Exam 1
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Terms | Definitions |
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 A Little Princess | a 1917 American silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel a by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion. |
| A Modern Musketeer | 1917 film staring Douglas Fairbanks as Ned Thacker. Fairbanks is credited with producing the film as well. A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure. |
| A Trip to the Moon | 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. |
| Cabiria | 1914 film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Set in ancient Carthage during the period of the Second Punic War, it treats the conflict between Rome and Carthage through the eyes of the title character. |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | 1996 documentary produced by David Gill and silent film historian Kevin Brownlow. The six-part mini-series concerned with coverage of the origin of cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Louis and August Lumiere to a serious artistic and commercial contender against America (that is, until the surge of the Nazis). |
| Flesh and the Devil | 1926 romantic drama silent film. It stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the play The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann. |
| Forgotten Silver | A New Zealand film mockumentary that purports to tell the story of a pioneering New Zealand filmmaker. It was written and directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, both of whom appear in the film in their roles as makers of the documentary. Tells the story of 'forgotten' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie, and the rediscovery of his lost films |
| Intolerance | 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. Music by Carl Davis. |
| Lumiere Actualities | Pioneered by the Lumiere brothers Auguste and Louis. The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. The actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that like the documentary film uses footage of real events, places, and things, yet unlike the documentary is not structured into a larger argument, picture of the phenomenon or coherent whole. In practice, actuality films preceded the emergence of the documentary. |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | a 1917 comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur. Adapted by Frances Marion from the play by Eleanor Gates, the film stars Mary Pickford. The film tells the story of a rich girl whose parents ignore her and whose servants push her around, until tragedy brings them to realize the error of their ways. |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 1917 silent comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion and stars Mary Pickford. With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make new friends and must adjust to surroundings that are sometimes difficult. But she still finds time to think of numerous ways to help others in her new hometown. |
| Rescued by Rover | British short silent film released in 1905. It was popular on release and was directed by Cecil Hepworth. It was the first film to feature the Hepworth's family dog Blair in a starring role; following the release, the dog became a household name and he is considered to be the first dog film star. |
| Rescued from an Eagle's Nest | 1908 silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and featuring D. W. Griffith in an acting role. A family is terrified when an eagle carries off its young child. |
| Salome | a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost. A scene in the film The Cook, starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, spoofs parts of this movie, with Arbuckle dressing in drag and doing his best "Cleopatra" impression. |
| Shadow Magic | 2000 film directed and co-written by Ann Hu. The film is set in Beijing, 1902, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. A young portrait photographer, Liu Jinglun (Xia Yu), chances on a newly-arrived Englishman, Raymond Wallace (Jared Harris) in the capital. Liu is keen on new technology and gadgets, while Raymond has brought along the latest motion picture camera and projector with some silent film shorts from the West. |
| Silents Please | TV Series 1960-1961, influenced Kevin Brownlow |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | 1908, directed by Hobart Bosworth |
| The Birth of a Nation | 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation was the highest-grossing film of the silent film era, and is noted for its innovative camera techniques and narrative achievements. It has provoked great controversy for promoting white supremacy and positively portraying the "knights" of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes. |
| The Parade's Gone By | 1968 Kevin Brownlow's first book on silent film. The book had many interviews with the leading actors and directors of the silent era and began his career as a film historian. |
| The Squaw Man | 1914 silent western drama motion picture starring Dustin Farnum. Directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille and produced by DeMille and Jesse L. Lasky, the screenplay was adapted by DeMille and Apfel from the 1905 stage play, The Squaw Man, written by Edwin Milton Royle. This first screen version of the story was the legendary DeMille's first movie assignment. It also holds the distinction of being the first feature-length movie filmed specifically in Hollywood. |
| The Three Musketeers | 1921 American silent movie based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. The movie was directed by Fred Niblo and starred Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan. The film originally had scenes filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process"). The athletic Douglas Fairbanks's one-handed handspring to grab a sword during a fight scene in this film is considered as one of the great stunts of the early cinema period. It lasts nine frames. |
| The Virginian | 1914 film based upon the novel by Owen Wister, and starring Dustin Farnum as the Virginian. The movie is the first of several versions, including a 1929 movie with Gary Cooper and Walter Huston and a 1960 television series. The 1914 film was directed by Cecil B. DeMille. |
| Wings | 1927 silent film about World War I fighter pilots, Produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture[1] and the only silent film ever to win Best Picture. Wings stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen. Gary Cooper appears in a scene which helped launch his career in Hollywood. |
| Within Our Gates | 1920 silent race film that dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro". Produced, written and directed by novelist Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director. Lost for decades, a single print of the film, entitled La Negra (The Black Woman), was discovered in Spain in the 1970s.[1][2] In 1993, the Library of Congress restored the film as close to the original as possible. |
| Fatty "Roscoe" Arbuckle | Born in Kansas. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. He was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s, and soon became one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract to make $1 million a year in 1918. Accused of raping and accidentally killing a woman at a party, acquitted, but it ruined his career. |
| Sarah Bernhardt | French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress. |
| Kevin Brownlow | a filmmaker, film historian, television documentary-maker, author, and Academy Award recipient. Best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. |
| Carl Davis | American born conductor and composer. He has written music for more than 100 television programs, but is best known for creating music to accompany silent films. |
| Cecil B. De Mille | American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.[1] He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among his best-known films are The Ten Commandments (1956), Cleopatra (1934), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. |
| Allan Dwan | pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood. |
| Thomas Edison | patented the sound recording and reproducing phonograph in 1878. Built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer. Started the Motion Picture Patents Company |
| William K. Everson | English-American archivist, author, critic, educator, collector and film historian. He often discovered lost films. Employed as writer, editor and researcher on the TV series Movie Museum and Silents Please |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. | American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, he was a founding member of United Artists. Was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. Married to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty. |
| Thomas Ince | American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western." He was a partner with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett in the Triangle Motion Picture Company. |
| Greta Garbo | Swedish actress primarily known for her work in the United States during Hollywood's silent film period. she appeared in only 27 movies, yet she remains one of the most popular and recognizable Hollywood stars. In Flesh and the Devil. |
| Gene Gauntier | writer, director and actress in films from early 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 31 films. She performed in 28 films and is credited as the director of The Grandmother (1909). Born as Genevieve Liggett in Kansas City, adopted Ben-Hur into screenplay without paying author, setting stage for copyright laws regarding film adoptations. |
| John Gilbert | Starred in Flesh and the Devil, his first film with Greta Garbo. Known as "the great lover," and engaged to Greta Garbo (who never showed at the wedding). Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies |
| Lillian Gish | person, starred in numerous Griffith films such as The Birth of A Nation and Way Down East. Called the "first lady" of silent film. |
| Sam (Goldfish) Goldwyn | American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios. |
| D. W. Griffith | premier pioneering American film director.[1] He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). |
| Carl Laemmle | pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal. He produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films. |
| The Lumiere Brothers | Auguste and Louis. Made "actuaries" |
| Frances Marion | American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century. Wrote many scripts for actress/filmmaker Mary Pickford |
| Colin Mackenzie | fake director in Peter Jackson's "forgotten silver" |
| George Melies | Directed "Trip to the Moon." French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, sometimes referred to as the First "Cinemagician. |
| Oscar Micheaux | American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films. |
| Owen Moore | actor in American films, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937. Maried Gladys Smith in 1911 (mary pickford). Their marriage was kept secret at first, later they divorced as her fame out shadowed his. |
| Mary Pickford | Born Gladys Louise Smith, this Canadian-born American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart." In 1919, Pickford — along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks — formed the independent film production company United Artists. |
| Edwin S. Porter | early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company. Directed "The Great Train Robbery" |
| Esther Ralston | American movie actress whose greatest popularity came during the silent era. In the late 1920s she appeared in many films for Paramount |
| Wallace Reed | an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". Became addicted to Morphine after an film accident and died overdose. His widow, Dorothy Davenport, co-produced and appeared in Human Wreckage (1923), making a national tour with the film to publicize the dangers of drug addiction. |
| Charles "Buddy" Rogers | Born in Olathe, Kansas. He studied at the University of Kansas, later acting professionally in hollywood films. Starred in Wings. Later became 3rd husband to Mary Pickford. |
| Mack Sennett | Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937. |
| Dimitri Tiomkin | a film score composer and conductor |
| Lois Weber | American silent film actress, producer and director, and was the first woman to direct a full-length feature film when she directed The Merchant of Venice in 1914. John Ford was an assistant to her early in his career. |
| Adolf Zukor | a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. established Famous Players Film Company |
| Black Maria | created by Edison, 1st motion picture studio |
| Biograph | An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph. |
| Cinematograph | invented by Lumiere brothers; patented in 1895; device both projected and photographed action |
| Edison Trust | Also known as the Motion Picture Patents Company, it was a trust of all the major American film companies. Ended the domination of foreign films on American screens, standardized the manner in which films were distributed and exhibited in America, and improved the quality of American motion pictures by internal competition. But it also discouraged its members' entry into feature film production, and the use of outside financing, both to its members' eventual detriment. |
| Essanay | an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915. |
| Famous Players | founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios. Later became Paramount. |
| Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company | Lasky and Goldwyn teamed with Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form this company. |
| Kinetograph | early motion picture camera invented by Thomas Edison - same thing as Kinetoscope |
| Kinetoscope | a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter - similar to a kinetograph |
| Nickelodeon | The first permanent movie theatre in America, which was converted from a store, opened in 1905; it was called a nickelodeon because admission to the theatre (odeon in Greek) cost a nickel. |
| Pathe Films | thing |
| Photoplays | ne of the first American film fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago. Beginning in 1920, it gave out what is considered the first significant annual movie award, a "Medal of Honor" |
| Pickfair | a mansion designed by California architect Wallace Neff and named as an amalgamation of the names of its original residents, silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. |
| Triangle Film Corporation | D.W. Griffith (Drama); Thomas Ince (Westerns); Mack Sennett (Comedy) |
| Vitagraph | United States movie studio, founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897. By 1907 it was the most prolific American film production company. It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925. |
| Zoetrope | a drum-like device with pictures inside it which creates the sensation of a moving object |
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