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Where did dance originate from?
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Myth/Ritual, Religion, Communication/Oral History.
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Manual (Dance/Renaissance)
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instructional guides
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Two examples of Manuals
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"Orchesography" -Thoinot Arbeau
"The English Dancing Master" -John Playford |
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Examples of Social Dance?
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Schotish
Gavotte Pavane – Similar to the Wedding March Morris – “Running Step” danced only by men Courante – 1st form of Waltz 1st time partners embraced |
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Ballet?
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Created the Royal Academy of Dance in 1661
Appointed Pierre Beauchamps as “Superintendent of the King’s Ballet” Believed responsible for standardizing the five foot positions of ballet |
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Example of Ballet?
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Pierre Rameau – “The Dancing Master” (1725)
Formalized a vocabulary of ballet, and documented the foot positions. |
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What is the traditional ballet?
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Narrative
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Pas de Deux
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a dance for two
Adagio -- the male dancer supports the ballerina in slow movements Coda (or ending) -- the couple dance apart and then finally together with all their technical skill |
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Labanotation
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Most well-known method for writing down dance movements today was created by Rudolf Laban
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Isadora Duncan
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(1877-1927) “The Mother of Modern Dance”
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Martha Graham
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(1894-1991) Firmly established modern dance as an accepted artistic form
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Jazz dancing
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evolved from a number of African rhythms, European folk dances, and the American jazz music of the 1920s.
Highly emotional |
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Tap
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Like Jazz, Tap evolved in the early 20th Century from late 19th Century influences:
Buck-and-Wing – A fast style of dance done in wooden-sole shoes Soft Shoe – Done in soft, leather shoes In the 1920s, metal plates were added to the tips and soles of the leather shoes |
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Buck-and-Wing
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A fast style of dance done in wooden-sole shoes
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Soft Shoe
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done in soft, leather shoes
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Musical Theatre
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a combination of all forms of dance
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When was photography developed?
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1835-1838
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Eadweard Muybridge?
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created the "Galloping Horses" in the late 1870s from a series of photographs to prove that horses at one point, have all four feet off of the ground.
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Three devices created to try and make a moving picture
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Mutoscope
Zeotrope Kinetoscope |
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere
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are credited with the world's first public film screening on December 28, 1895
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Nickelodeons
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Created by Marcus Loew
Arcades, storefronts and music halls converted to movie houses |
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"The Great Train Robbery"
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Edwin S. Porter
1st Narrative Film. 1st Film shot out of chronological order. 1st Film to use parallel editing. 1st Film to use of panned camera movement. 1st Western. |
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"Movie Palace"
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1920s
seated thousands, included lounges, nurseries, hospitals, restaurants, full orchestras, royal architecture and furnishings |
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Examples of Movie Palaces
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NY's ROXY THEATRE
“Grauman’s Chinese Theatre” (1927) “Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre” (1922) Chicago’s “Paradise Theatre” (1928) San Antonio “Majestic Theatre” (1928) |
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"The Jazz Singer"
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Silent picture with musical accompaniment on disc
"Vitaphone" Four talking sections with synchronized dialogue |
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Viewers decreased after WWII, and they tried getting viewers back by what?
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3D
“Sensurround” Technicolor Drive-Ins Cinerama, Panavision, CinemaScope, etc. (Aspect Ratio) |
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Drive Ins affected what atmosphere and how?
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Theme park atmosphere.
included restaurants, playgrounds, swimming pools, amusement parks, laundromats, motels, etc. |
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Why did drive ins popularity decline?
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no air conditioning, real estate prices, suburbs, rising taxes, zoning regulations.
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What was the standard color system?
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Eastmancolor
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Example of Special Effects?
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"A Trip to the Moon" -George Melies ("Father of Movie Special Effects")
"King Kong" |
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Types of Special Effects?
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Prosthetics
Composite Photography |
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Rotoscoping
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A technique in which video or film images are placed in the background of a scene, one frame at a time, either manually or by computer automation.
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Morphing
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A continuous transformation from one keyframe or 3D model to another.
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Guglielmo Marconi
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1895 -- Credited with first radio transmission
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Lee de Forest
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1906 – Audion Tube
1908 – Wireless Broadcast of Human Voice |
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Examples of Serials
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Mystery (The Shadow)
Westerns (Gunsmoke) Detective (Green Hornet) Comedy (Fibber McGee & Molly) “Soap Operas” (Ma Perkins) |
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Philo T. Farnsworth
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Credited with invention of television technology
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Vladimir Zworykin
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Developed competing technology
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David Sarnoff
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Broadcast pioneer
Named head of RCA Later became head of NBC |
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What was formed when NBC was forced to sell one of its networks – bought and led by Edwin Noble?
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ABC
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What was NBC, ABC, and CBS known as?
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The Big Three
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Affiliate System
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a broadcast station with an exclusive agreement with a specific network in which the affiliate airs only programming from the network in return for programming content.
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