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what was the name of the e-d projector
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vitascope
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what was the main film style at the beginning of cinema?
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documentaries (lumiere's actualites)
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what were characteristics of early film? (both edison and lumiere)
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- static camera (except for tub race - slight pan!)
- theatrical influences (front row center, proscenium, invisible 4th wall) - 1 movie 1 shot (continuously exposed length of film |
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why was ramirez berg to excited about tub race
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slight pan!!
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what country started making innovations in films in the early 1900s?
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french!
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Alice Guy-Blache?
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- pioneer of narrative film (and latery color+sound film)
- rose from secretary to head of film production at Gaumont Studios - most prolific early filmmaker |
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what did alice guy-blache pioneer in?
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narrative film
color film sound film |
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where did alice guy-blache start
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secretary at gaumont, rose to head of film production
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how many films is alice guy-blache credited for. actual number?
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240+
700+ |
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why was alice guy-blache not credited sometimes
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guys came in and stole credit for her
also not respectable work |
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what types of people were attracted to film in the early days? why?
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women, irish, jews, because it was not respectable work (and that's the only place they would be taken)
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how many sound shorts did guy-blache make
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100
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who was georges melies
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magician turned filmmaker
- special effects using stop motion photography - cinematic transitions |
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who did melies try to buy equipment from?
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lumieres (cinematographe), but they wouldnt sell so he bought it from competitors
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what was melies' first magic trick in film
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accidentally saw a coach turn into a funeral hearst (when camera jammed)
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how did melies use stop motion photography
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stop the cam, change the pic, restart the cam
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what transitions did melies use
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fade in, fade out, lap dissolve (combines 2 image ends)
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cinematic tricks of melies?
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- stop motion photography
- transitions - multiple exposures onto a single piece of film |
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who did trip to the moon
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melies (he directs, produces, stars in, writes, set design, costume design his own films)
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what were melies' contributions?
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1. special effects
2. 1 shot 1 SCENE not 1 shot 1 film. (stop motion makes something more than one shot, like when the sedonites disappear) 3. movies are many scenes 4. longer films 5. cinema creates its own reality |
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how many scenes in a trip to the moon
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16, more than one shot per scene sometimes
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what is the basic unit of construction in melies' stuff
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scene, each has a beginning, middle, end
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what film helped to make narrative film
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trip to the moon
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was melies' realist or formalist
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formalist
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what is realist v. formalist
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realist - film/frame is a window, you are trying to capture life as you see it
formalist - film/frame is a canvas, create whatever you can imagine |
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who is porter
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- worked with edison
- projectionist turned filmmaker - the great train robbery |
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who did the great train robbery
what did it do overall |
edwin s porter
change filmmaking FOREVAR |
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gtr advances?
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1. varied exterior shots (more interesting than interiors)
2. moving camera (on train). also pan and tilt 3. new standard movie length: 1 reel is 15 mins 4. shot is the basic unit of movie construction |
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shots in gtr
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- exteriors are more interesting than interiors
- exterior: cu, ms, ls; fresh, non traditional shots; depth, perspective, motion through bg, middle ground, foreground; moving from CU --> els fast! - interior: proscenium framing tradition |
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how many shots is gtr
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14 shots
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what makes the shot the basic construction for gtr
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some scenes are not understood with only 1 shot (like the bandit's getaway scene that is 3 shots that cannot be understood alone: getting on the train as it leaves, getting off the train as it stops, getting on the horses and riding off)
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