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Film 2700 Midterm
Early Film
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
10/08/2009

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Flicker Fusion
Definition
Human's eye ability to see flipbook.
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Phenakistoscope
Definition
Wheel of images, developed by Joseph Plateau. (needs a mirror)
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Magic Lanterns:
Definition
Series of glass slides shown with a projector. (limited number of slides)
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Louis Daguerre:
Definition
invented clear, permanent copper plates used for projection.
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Eadweard Muybridge:
Definition
a serial photographer that took many photos at once to simulate film, he combined the magic lantern with a stroboscopic toy.
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Étienne-Jules Marey:
Definition
invented rifle camera which took 12 shots in rapid succession using 1 camera.
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Who developed kinetograph ( big black metal box used to film for kinetoscopes?
Definition
Dickson
Term
Who developed kinetescope (peep-hole viwer?
Definition
Dickson
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What was Black Maria?
Definition
Studio that Edison used to create film (retractable ceiling, rotation)
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Cinématographe:
Definition
film camera that serves as a projector.
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Birth date of Cinema:
Definition
December 28, 1895 - first public exhibition of film to paying audience.
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Popular film 1895-1902
Definition
Melodrama/Comedies
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Georges Méliès:
Definition
A magician-turned-director that used many sppecial effects (Trip to the Moon)
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Edwin Porter:
Definition
created Great Train Robbery (which included hand tinting for color)
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Melodrama:
Definition
• Clear cut good/bad
• Excessive emotion
• Last minute rescue
• Moral lesson
• Domestic life
• Female protagonist
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Yellow Peril Films
Definition
Negative attitude toward Asians in cinema.
The Cheat
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Classical Hollywood Cinema:
Definition
• A-B plot
• few protagonists
• linear narrative
• suspense
• resolution
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Star system within CHC:
Definition
• MPCC frowned on Star Promotion
• Motion pictures story magazine introduced stars
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Pathé:
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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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Charlie Chaplin
Definition
• Vaudevill comedian
• 1914: Keystone Comedies
• 1915: Essanay
• 1916: Mutual Corporation
• 1919: United Artists
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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)
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Klammerspiel
Definition
(chambre Drama: few characters, crisis, slow acting, few settings, character psychology, unhappy endings)
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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
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Leni Reiefenstahl
Definition
• Female dancer
• Mountain Movies
• Triumph of the Will: German propaganda affirming the Nazis and Hitler
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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)
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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
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Mise-en-scène (to place in a scene)
Definition
• setting
• lighting
• costumes
• props
• make-up
• acting style
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