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31 Cards in this Set
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zoetrope |
spinning circle with slits that would produce moving images (woman in black-esque) |
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praxinosocope |
similar to zoetropes, but has mirror |
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Magic Lantern |
praxinoscope's successor |
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August and Louis Lumiere |
first filmmakers in history |
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"Actualities" |
-30 seconds of life action -no editing, 1 shot= 1 clip
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Beginning of motion pictures (year) |
1895, in Grand Cafe, Paris by the Lumieres |
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George Melies |
-"A Trip to the Moon" -Constructed scenes, not shots (theatre style) |
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Edwin Porter |
-"The Great Train Robbery" -introduced parallel editing |
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D.W. Griffith (3 things) |
-"Birth of a Nation" -Biograph studios -developed basic methods of continuity editing |
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German Expressionism |
-appeared in cinema 1920 -skewed -anti realist -built sets -stylized lighting etc. |
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3 key expressionism movies |
-Metropolis -Woman in the Moon -The Nibelungen |
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F.W. Murnau |
Directed: -Nosferatu -Faust
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Last big expressionist movie |
M (Fritz Lang), 1931 |
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Lev Kuleshov |
-invented Kuleshov effect -found that editing determines the meaning of clips |
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Sergei Eisenstein |
-Russian -Directed Potemkin -Used montage -Wrote "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today" |
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Dialectical Montage |
-editing based on contradictive qualities -shots are factually "immutable" (incomplete on their own) |
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Carl Theodore Dryer |
-Directed Passion of Joan of Arc -Directed Vampyr -opposed to mass production methods -close ups
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Jean Renior |
-French -Directed The Grand Illusion -Directed Rules of the Game -moving camera -long takes |
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Pre War French Cinema |
-Avante Garde -Experimental -Ballet Mechanical |
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French Sound Experimentation movie |
Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) |
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French Golden Decade |
Box office strength 2nd in the world, to US |
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French Poetic Realism |
-focus on working class -location shooting |
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Arrival of Sound |
1927-1928 |
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Vitaphone |
-Warner Bros -Sound on disk |
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First Talkie |
-Jazz Singer (by Warner Bros) |
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MovieTones |
Fox Film Corp. |
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Photophone |
-RCA (later known as RKO) -Used variable area soundtrack |
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Industry standard for audio |
variable area soundtrack |
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Hollywood Studios After 1930 |
-Paramount -MGM -20th Century Fox -Warner Bros -RKO -Universal -Columbia -United Artists |
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First movie censorship ordinance |
Chicago 1907 |
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Supreme Court decision on movies |
1915, movies are excluded from free speech |
