Bronco Billy

First Arkansas Film Maker

In Great Train Robbery (1903-Edwin S. Porter)

Charlie Chaplin

1924- United Artist

Gold Rush 1903. 

Outsider vs. Society is central theme

other themes awkward walk, lack of food, cast-off or inadequate clothing, romance, romance, lack of shelter, comic feet, and shoes

Created Tramp character in 1917

Came from poor background

Two types of P.O.V.

Objective

Subjective

1) neutral recording of subject

2) what a character in the film is seeing or reflects the perspective of the director, conscious of someone behind the camera

Pedestal-extending tripod

Camera Movement

Deep Focus 

Camera Adjustment

using a diffusion filter

"Gauze shot"

Iris in/out

A way of dividing up parts of the film

ex. Binocular mask

matte in front(or behind) lens and film half of the scene

switch the matte

film the other side of the shot

looks like it was filmed at once

Film Form

Determined by how the individual parts of a picture are organized to give a film its overall sturcture

Fram

Shot

Scene

Sequence

most basic unit

a film is made up of individual frames or still images

1) director wants to stop filming

2) editor is said to "cut" the picture when putting together the individual pieces of film at the time it is being edited

3) the most common transitions between shots

Invisible editing, Hollywood editing, or decoupage

realistic appears

real time & real space

matched cut

action in the first show is continued in the following shot

(gets finger cut off)

Themes in film machine, accident, and miracle

Human vs. Fate

The General 1927

formalistic approach to editing based on conflict

doesn't attempt to duplicate real time & space

Russian Montage

Identified with the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein

Russian Montage

Strike 1924

Battleship Potemkin 1925

1924

Sergei Eisenstein

revolutionary montage

Strike 1924 Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein

Intolerance1916  D.W. Griffith

Menilmontant 1924 Dmitri Kirsanoff

Roue (The Wheel) 1921 Abel Gance

Ballet Mecanique 1924 Fernand Leger

2000

Christopher Nolan

Audio Tube

1907(6)

Warner Bros

1926

Released with musical sound track (first)

Synchronized sound

precise matching of sound to image

1927

Lip Sync Al Joison

"You ain't heard nothing yet!"

Transition from silent to talking

(years)

1936

Charlie Chaplin

Last silent feature

Synchronous

audience can hear and those in film can hear

asynchronous

only audience can hear sound

voice

music

sound effects

silence

a convention whose symbolism goes beyond its surface appearance or function within a genre

1933

Warner Brothers

revamped musical directed by Lloyed Bacon

black film

in many american crime and detective films

First identified by Frank Nino 1946

downbeat narrative themes

dark visuals

ex. The Maltese Falcon 1941 Bogart

crime in progress (suspense)

Psycho 1960

Human vs. Guilt

formalism & realism

German Expressionism

1) suspense

2) voyeurism- peeping tom

3) MacGuffin- something that seems suspenseful

4)cameo appearance

5) human vs. guilt

1960

Alfred Hitchcock

24

1

Tony Conrad

1963

Experimental Film

altered dark and light images

film is necessary for "cultural direction"

must be able to criticize film

Narrative

Experimental

Documentary

1)pre production

2) production

3) post-production

4) distribution

5) exhibition

one-line

treatment

script

hiring a director

person who guides the seminal idea for a film from its inception to an exhibited product 

In charge of financing films.

concerned with such things as proper exposure, appropriate lighting, clear images, and smooth camera movements

how film will look and be shot

the person who moves these objects on the set and the filmmaking equipment

1) mise-en-scene (composition of image)

2) camera work

3) editing

4) sound

phonograph

attempted to make motion picture

invented motion pictures

photographic gun with marey

Edison's Assistant

workable prototype movie camera in 1891

Kinetograph

peepshow device the Kinetoscope

Kinetograph located here

first movie studio

perfect workable movie camera in 1895 (similar to home cinematographers)

anticipated development of Narrative Films

relatively short documentary segments relating to a newsworthy event or human-interest story

1910 evolved in newsreel

Magician

created special effects

A trip to the moon 1902

uses "match on action"

father of motion pictures

The Birth of Nation 1915

1915 D.W. Griffith

controversial film about civil war

what audiences perceive, or explore how the medium can manipulate color, texture, shape, light. and time

Tony Conrad- Flicker 1965

Andy Warhol- Sleep 1963

Empire 1964

ex. music videos

more concerned with "form" of cinematic techniques used in presenting visual effects and how they are being expressed, than it is with using film to mirror reality

mimesis

versimilitude

Raphael's School of Athens

Der Letze Mann (The Last Laugh)

The Last Laugh (Der Letze Mann)

What type of art

anti-art movement 1916-1924

Zurich-inspired by horrors of wwi

Francis Picabia's Portrait of Cezanne 1920

Marcel Duchamp

Man Ray- The Gift (Rayograph)

Anaemic Cinema (Ray and Duchamp)

created by putting objets on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light. The shapes and shadows resulting from this process created a one-of-a-kind photograph of abstract images and effects

Retour a' la Raison (Return to Reason) 1923

Portrait of Cezanne

Type of art? When?

1920

Dada

1907

Questioned surface appearance is represented in art 1907. (spatial representations and linear perspective in the visual depiction of space geometric shape)

Gearges Braques- founder

Marcel Duchamp- Nude Descending a Staircase

Fernand Leger- Le Ballet Mecanique

Cubism

1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon (The Young Ladies of Avingnon)

Marcel Duchamp 1912

based on motion picture by Muybridge of a woman walking down staircase

1912

1925 Fernand Leger's 

cubist interpretation of Chaplin's tramp

1924 (off of Dada) ended in 1940s due to wwii

Surrealist looked to the relationship the subconscious had with "outer reality"

Salvador Dalie

Rene' Clair

The Listen Room

Un Chien Andalou

The Age of Gold

surrealism

Dreamlike landscapes

Surrealism

Film- Interlude or Interval 1924

The Listening Room

surrealism

Bunuel and Dali 1924

Controversial movie

The Age of Gold 1930 more controversial

externalizing and finding visible representation for inner moods and emotions, particularly those relating to alienation and despair

first movement 1919-1929

The Scream

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Second movement 1943

Edvard Munch 1893

expressionism

1919 Robert Wiene

Expressionism

Fritz Lang & Karl Freund

(art movement)

1967

Chaplin's last movie

1) metro-goldwyn-mayer

2)paramount

3)twentieth century fox

4) warner brothers

5) universal

humorous deformity, or a mistaken attitude

audience does not see as painful

problem of many early movies

made pictures look choppy and jerky

Carlie Chaplin's famous "flickering shuffle"

1) mise-en-scene or composition of image

2) sound

3) camera work

4) editing

1) camera placement

2) camera adjustment

3) camera movement

"intimate theater"

Max Reinhardt

Carl Mayer author of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (directed by Wiene) (expressionism) helped developed Kammerspielfilm and wrote The Last Laugh 1924 (formalism)

Variety (1925)

communication through subtle facial expression

1) entertainment

2) persuasion

3) information

4) aesthetic appreciation