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Arts and Humanities
Film and TV
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History of Motion Picture Exam 1
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persistence of Vision (Roget)
"looking at lights" Images stay in the eye
Phi Phenomena
simulate experience of motion pictures
stroboscopes
toys that anticipated the coming of the cinema
flipbooks, zoetropes, magick lantern
early discoveries and inventions that led to the development of motion picture technology in the 1880's and 1890's
magick lantern, photography, serial photos
Daguerre
discovery of photography
Muybridge
The Horse in Motion
serial photography
Marey
Made camera gun, filmed first cat video of cat falling.
Eastman
American inventor and industrialist who invented the dry-plate method of photography, flexible film, and a process for color photography
celluloid film
start of stop motion
Edison and Dickson
Created the kinetoscope
Black Maria Studio
Thomas Edison's first production facility
Edison himself played no direct part in the making of his studio's films beyond being the owner.
use of sunlight through skylight in roof
Lumiere Brothers
French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe
Actualities (documentary)
First projected movie
What came out of the MPPC or "the trust" that helped stabilize the new motion picture industry?
fixed ticket prices
streamlined distribution
set film gauge
Melies
A Trip to the Moon
tableaux
fixed camera
fantasy
father of special effects
Porter
parallel cutting, shot as basic unit, moving camera, Western
The importance and contributions of D.W. Griffith in shaping a film language and in elevating the status of cinema in relation to the other arts
dramatic lighting
refined screen acting
longer duration (for more story telling)
Birth of a Nation
Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK.
literary sources
difference between intra- and inter-frame narration
intra - story, misce en cen
inter- editing,
the major Hollywood studios of the '20s
MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros
"hays office"
the MPPDA, established in 1922
Parufamet Agreement
An agreement Eric Pommer and UFA made with MGM and Paramount that contracted 20 US films into germany each season and guaranteed American studios 75% of its programs.
talent swap between studios
the nature of american screen comedy
kinetic, physical, nonsensical, slapstick comedy, timing gags
sennett, chaplin, and keaton
types of nonfiction films
documentary
Flaherty's Nanook of the North
film on location
camera on tripod
longshots
Bunuels and Dali's Un Chien Andalou
surrealism
dreamlike
capture a culture
style and ideas of soviet montage
rapid cutting
hollywood continuity editing
logical editing
preserving points of view and perspective
Eisenstein
Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
art is conflict
dialectical montage
Kuleshov
Soviet filmmaker. Created the "Kuleshov experiment," which proved that audiences created narrative from the juxtaposition of shots regardless of the performance of the actor involved in the shot.
arrangement
Vertov
Man with a Movie Camera
kieno eyes
Compare cabinet of Dr. Caligaro to Sherlock Jr.
circular, dreamlike
German Expressionism
school, movement
national origins
specific duration of time
Cinematic Reflexivity
-Drawing attention to the fact that film isn't real
-Self-consciousness
Ex:Talking to the camera
-Simple, complex, tricks
what are the two divergent traditions within the history of the movies
non fiction, fiction, documentary