Details Title: Film 2700 Midterm Description: Early Film Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 10/08/2009 10:14:44		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Film, Theatre & Television Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Flicker Fusion Definition Human's eye ability to see flipbook. Term Phenakistoscope Definition Wheel of images, developed by Joseph Plateau. (needs a mirror) Term Magic Lanterns: Definition Series of glass slides shown with a projector. (limited number of slides) Term Louis Daguerre: Definition invented clear, permanent copper plates used for projection. Term Eadweard Muybridge: Definition a serial photographer that took many photos at once to simulate film, he combined the magic lantern with a stroboscopic toy. Term Ιtienne-Jules Marey: Definition invented rifle camera which took 12 shots in rapid succession using 1 camera. Term Who developed kinetograph ( big black metal box used to film for kinetoscopes? Definition Dickson Term Who developed kinetescope (peep-hole viwer? Definition Dickson Term What was Black Maria? Definition Studio that Edison used to create film (retractable ceiling, rotation) Term Cinιmatographe: Definition film camera that serves as a projector. Term Birth date of Cinema: Definition December 28, 1895 - first public exhibition of film to paying audience. Term Popular film 1895-1902 Definition Melodrama/Comedies Term Georges Mιliθs: Definition A magician-turned-director that used many sppecial effects (Trip to the Moon) Term Edwin Porter: Definition created Great Train Robbery (which included hand tinting for color) Term Melodrama: Definition • Clear cut good/bad • Excessive emotion • Last minute rescue • Moral lesson • Domestic life • Female protagonist Term Yellow Peril Films Definition Negative attitude toward Asians in cinema. The Cheat Term Classical Hollywood Cinema: Definition • A-B plot • few protagonists • linear narrative • suspense • resolution Term Star system within CHC: Definition • MPCC frowned on Star Promotion • Motion pictures story magazine introduced stars Term Pathι: Definition • Made camera, projectors, and film stock. • largest film company of the time. • Created vertical integration ( one company controls all branches of film making: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition) • Created horizontal integration (one company buys many smaller specialized ocmpanies) Term Gaumont: Definition • Alice Guy-Blache: first female director and head of production (created Making and American Citizen: immigrant man beating wife) • Louis Feuillafe: famous for creating one long story broken into short separate screenings (Les Vampires) Term Nickelodeon Boom (1905-1907): Definition • first permanent movie theatre • one room theatre with benches • sound was played to accompany silent film • geared towards the working class • Amuse-U (Atlantas first Nickelodeon) Term Movie Palace Definition • designed to make the average person feel like royalty • seated 2500-6000 • first palace: The Strand • Atlanta's surviving Palace: The Fox Term Motion Picture Patents Company Definition • 1897- Edison sues for patent infringement on film • 1908- Edison created Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) • 1907- mainstream movie making moved from NJ to Hollywood because of weather, topography, real estate Term Charlie Chaplin Definition • Vaudevill comedian • 1914: Keystone Comedies • 1915: Essanay • 1916: Mutual Corporation • 1919: United Artists Term Race Cinema: Definition • response to Birth of a Nation • segregated theatres • 8 independent theatres • black cast for black audiences • Oscar Micheaux: (within our gates, the homesteader) Term Klammerspiel Definition (chambre Drama: few characters, crisis, slow acting, few settings, character psychology, unhappy endings) Term German Expressionism: Definition Reaction against physical realism, representative of inner emotion, focus on composition, unnatural acting, chiaroscuro lighting (light/dark contrast) I. Nosferatu II. The cabinet of dr. calgari Term Leni Reiefenstahl Definition • Female dancer • Mountain Movies • Triumph of the Will: German propaganda affirming the Nazis and Hitler Term Soviet Montage: Definition • All about the editing • Post revolution • Kuleshow: directer that experimented with spatial and temporal elements and their continuity between shots. (kuleshov effect: bowl of soup) Term Sound Timeline: Definition • Dixon: first to put sound on film • Sound on film: Dee DeForest • Sound on disc: Western Electric (partnered with WB) • Don Juan: first film with full score • The Jazz Singer: First sound film • Lights of New York: First 100% talkie • Big five agreement: none will adopt sound until method is universally agreed upon Term Mise-en-scθne (to place in a scene) Definition • setting • lighting • costumes • props • make-up • acting style