comm in society test 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 persistence of vision | the brain retains images for a fraction of a second after they leave field of sight |
| peep shows | 1800s rolls of still pictures contained in a box and hooked up to a crank- popular at amusement parlors |
| the first successful photography of motion | 1872 |
| kinetograph | early motion picture camera invited by edison 1889 |
| kinetoscope | early motion picture viewer invented by edison in 1889 |
| the great train robbery | 1903- first movie to use editing (cutting together shots) |
| The Lumiere brothers | perfected edisons equiptment, they began exhibiting short films to people in paris 1895 |
| vitascope | 1896- edison premiered his first thetatre projector |
| nickelodeon | small theatres with nickel admission |
| motion picture patents company | 'the trust' company founded by edison to control the movie equiptment business Us govt forced it out of business in 1917 |
| why move to cali? | good weather for outdoor shooting all year, varied scenery, hollywood bc of huige supply of large barns to convert into studios |
| first modern feature film | D.W. Griffith's civil war epic 'The birth of a nation' hollywood 1915 |
| the birth of a nation | griffith improved the art of movie story telling and perfected techniques like close up flashback fadeout etc. |
| 1894 | edison opens up a kinetoscope parlor |
| block booking | forcing theatre owners to show movies with unknown stars in order to get movies with established stars |
| blind booking | forcing theatre owners to reserve movies without previewing them |
| the cabinet of dr, caligari directed by robert wiene | best known film of the german expressionism movement and very typical to its style to rep inner psychological states 1920s |
| german impressionism | dark style reflecting the pessimistic moof of the german people following their defeat in WW 1 |
| mertropolis | 1926 a sci fi classic by fritz |
| soviet social realism | reaction to expressionism, focused on the masses rather than the individual and on external not internal problem |
| The battleship potemkin | 1925 sergei einstein example of soviet social realism |
| french surrealism | 1930s rejected standards of good taste and acceptability, emmraced the unconscious the irrational and the passionate |
| italian neoralism | end of WWII used real people with profesh actors about everyday problems |
| FRENCH NEW WAVE | 1960s and 1970s the direcotrs vision was paramount |
| amateur | "author" with an artistic connotation, a movie director with a distinctive style |
| the golden age | 1930s to 1950s with development of color and sound |
| breakthrough year for sound | 1927 |
| newsreels | showed news items and special interest |
| the jazz singer | 1927, featured Al Jolson, only 354 words and a few songs |
| 1939 | the wizard of oz and gone with the wind |
| harlem movies | all black casts, shown in theatres of black neighborhoods |
| OSCAR MICHEAUX | produced, directed and distributes 46 movies best african american film makers |
| sidney poitier | one of the first mainstream black stars |
| peak year of movie attendance | 1946 |
| VCRs | introduced in 1970s |
| DVDs | introduced in 1996 |
| pirating films | the illegal copying and selling of movies |
| disney's a toy story | the firmst movie to be produced entirely on computers |
| everage cost of producing and marketing a hollywood fil | 96 mil |
| preproduction | the planning phase, script development, casting, budgeting, casting, scheduling, etc |
| production | the actual shooting phase |
| post production | film and sound editing, soundtrack scoring, special effects, technical improvements |
| the big 6 | six major stuidios- paramount, sony, warner bros, disney, 20th century fox, universal |
| independent films | movies not made by big 6 |
| exec producer | finds the financing for the film, and puts the package together, including the story script stars and director |
| line producers | (production managers) do most of the actual day to day work |
| the director | provide the creative vision and translate the written script into a finished product |
| directors cut | represents the directors creative vision and often disregards coimmercial considerations |
| second unit directors | those who shoot the scenes that do not require stars |
| the editor | choosees the shots and places them in sequence |
| moviola | 2 reels on which the film was spooled over a small light so that the editor could view it as it was cut |
| cinematographer | director of photography. in charge of the cameras and works with director to set up shots |
| art director | designs the visual look of the film and oversees the set design wardrobe, makeup, lighting etc. |
| continuity supervisor | aka scrpit supervisor. mkaes sure that each days shots match up |
| key grip | who sees that the cameras are set up and moved |
| the gaffer | lighting director |
| gaffers assistant | known as best boy |
| domestic theatrical | the realease of movies to US theatres |
| colorizing | adding color to black and white films |
| syndication | selling media content to individual outlets |
| trailers | breif previews of coming attractions that give the viewers their first impression of the movie |
| tie-ins | consumer products built around movie characters |
| product placement | the inclusion of a product in a movie for amrketing purposes |
| docudramas | fictional movies that dramatize real life events |
| film censorship | individuals, groups or govts feel that a particular movie is immoral or is not in the public interesty |
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