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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
10/06/2015

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D. W. Griffith
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correspond to two technical domains of cinematic expression: editing and shot composition.
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George Eastman
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created celluloid film stock in 1884. (started Kodak)
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Celluloid film stock creator and date
Definition
George Eastman 1884
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What did Thomas Edison accomplish?
Definition
He figured out how to combine moving pictures with music from the phonograph. Thought he could put pictures in the wax discs that the soundtracks were on.
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Silent Film Speed
Definition
16 fps
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Sound Film Speed
Definition
24 fps
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Types of stroboscopic toys
Definition
Phenakistiscope, Zoetrope, Magic Lantern
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What is considered the birthdate of modern movies?
Definition
December 28th, 1895
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Invention of Stroboscopic Toys led to
Definition
discovery of an optimal frame rate
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William Dickson is responsible for
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the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone,
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The Kinetoscope
Definition
was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device
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formats
Definition
35mm
16mm
super 8
8mm
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lumiere borthers
Definition
By early 1895, the brothers had invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it the Cinématographe.
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hand cracked portable camera
Definition
lumirere brothers
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trip to the moon
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Georges Méliès
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He pioneered the first double exposure (La caverne Maudite, 1898), the first split screen with performers acting opposite themselves
Definition
Méliès’
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He expanded upon his initial ideas and devised some complex special effects such asSuperimpostion
Dissolve
Time laspe
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it was Méliès
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edwin s porter
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active camera pan shot
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mack sennett
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improvision
keystone corps
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The star system
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was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films.
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Movie studios would select promising young actors and glamorise and create personas for them, often inventing new names and even new backgrounds.
Definition
star system
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In 1912, Adolph Zukor
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established Famous Players Film Company—advertising "Famous Players in Famous Plays"—as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt
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First National
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was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them and eventually to producing them as a movie studio called First National Pictures, Inc. (1917−1936).
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magic lantern
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attributed to father athansuis kircher,
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when did the first working model of the magic lantern come out and who invented it
Definition
Christian Huygens, 1660
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Carl Laemmle
Definition
founder of universal studios
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Typical Camera Placement in Edison's films
Definition
Front row camera angle
o Rare closer shots
o Proscenium Framing
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Characteristics of early film
Definition
o Static camera
o Long takes
o Theater influences
Front row center camera placement
Frame - proscenium
o 1 movie = 1 shot
Doesn't work for complex narratives
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hand held viewers that created three dimensional effects
Definition
Stereoscopes
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Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) o
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Biggest movie star in the world for over two decades
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Montage movement
Definition
1920s
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3 purposes for edting
Definition
narrative
intellectual
emotional
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Vsevolod Pudovkin Filmmaker and theorist
Definition
o Linkage or relational editing
o Link common elements from shot to shot
For examples, via shapes
o Viewers understand film based on how images come together
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Sergei Eisenstein
Definition
a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage
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Expressionism
Definition
Art movement from 1890s -1920s
Expression of turbulent inner feelings
Inner outward
"Illness, insanity and death are the black angles that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life " - Edward Munch
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Expressionism in film
Definition
• Nosferatu
• Highly stylized mis-en-scene
• Elaborate sets
• Exaggerated acting
• Distorted compositions
• Set in another world or time
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The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
Definition
(Robert Wiene, 1920) • Producer Erich Pommer
• 1st film to attempt this style
o First expressionist film
• Look for
• Mise en Scene
• Acting
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Kammerspiel
Definition
Chamber Drama
• M 1931
Real films
• contemporary
• Set in everyday
Character focused
Investigate come crisis
End unhappily
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The Last Laugh ( F.W Murnau, 1924)
Definition
Merger of expressionism and Kammerspiel
High profile job and as he gets older
To look for
• How interior states are demonstrated
• Expressionistic aspects
• Camera movement istortion of composition
• The Characteristics of the Era
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Surrealism
Definition
a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
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Experimental narrative
Definition
adapted techniques from german expressionism and french
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