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History of Motion Picture Exam 1

Terms in this set (33)

persistence of Vision (Roget)

"looking at lights" Images stay in the eye

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

discovery of photography

The Horse in Motion
serial photography

Made camera gun, filmed first cat video of cat falling.

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

A Trip to the Moon

tableaux

fixed camera

fantasy

father of special effects

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

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

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

hollywood continuity editing

logical editing

preserving points of view and perspective

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

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

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