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International Film History Midterm
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
03/03/2013

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Edison's kinetoscope
Definition
films viewed through a peephole viewer at the top of a cabinet
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Lumiere brothers
Definition
earliest filmmakers, started off as photographers, created the cinematographe
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Nickelodeon theaters
Definition
the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures
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Kinetographe
Definition
an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermitten or stop and go film movement, to photograph movies for in hourse experiments (developed by William Kennedy Dickson and Thomas Edison, his boss)
was huge and inefficient
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Cinematographe
Definition
a motion picture film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer, developed in the 1890s and was invented by the Lumiere brothers
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Black Maria
Definition
Edison’s movie production studio, the world’s first film production studio in the United States, 1893
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Porter
Definition
an American early film pioneer, famous director at Thomas Edison’s production company. Directed The Great Train Robbery
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Alice Guy Blache
Definition
French director, the first female director in the motion picture industry
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Vaudeville
Definition
: a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the US from the 1880s until the early 1930s
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Melies
Definition
French illusionist and filmmaker, used trick technique. Directed A Trip to the Moon
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Edison's Patents Trust
Definition
1908- 1912
• Organized U.S Producers as a cartel
◦ Camera, projection, stock technology
• Sued everyone he could in order to run them out of business.
• Tried to control the entire industry, created a trust to keep out the competition.
• Opposed by 'the Independents'
◦ The hollywood companies are new companies
◦ C. Laemmle: Universal, A. Zukor: Paramount, Wm Fox: Fox Films
▪ fought Edison's trust legally and competitively.
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Florence Lawrence
Definition
Biograph girl
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Hollywood Era?
Definition
1914-1927:
• Star System: Chaplin, Mary Pickford
o A Dog’s Life, 1918
• Feature length films: 1 hour or longer, Birth of a Nation
• Independent film companies win the war against Edison and the patents trust
o The original American Film companies were destroyed
o The Edison company got out completely in 1918
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Italy Epics Era
Definition
1912-1914
• Cabiria, 1914
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UFA & Expressionism
Definition
principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through WWII
o Chiaruscuro
o Style
o Moving camera: the unchained camera
o Symbolic montage with overlapping
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Weimar Republic
Definition
Germany, 1919 to 1933
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Schufftan process
Definition
a movie special effect invented by Eugen Schufftan, popularized by Schufftan while he was working on Metropolis, place a plate of glass at 45 degree angle between the camera and the miniature set
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Eisenstein
Definition
pioneer Soviet film director, the father of Montage, directed October & Battleship Potemkin
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Film in Soviet society
Definition
film stock hard to come by, played around and cut differently with intolerance to experiment
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Intellectual montage
Definition
montage is conflict
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agit-prop
Definition
agitation propaganda
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V.I. Pudovkin
Definition
Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage, contrasted with Eisenstein in that he preferred to concentrate the courage and resilience of individuals
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typage
Definition
a Soviet technique where an actor represents an human manifestation of an entire group of people/social class
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Lev Kuleshov
Definition
Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, probably the first. Emphasis on juxtaposition of one shot with another
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Kuleshov effect
Definition
two or more shots together without an establishing shot
Term
Poetic realism
Definition
stylistic aspects and social/political background
• Film movement in France of the 1930s and through the war years
• Individualism, fatalistic view of life with characters living on the margins of society (usually as unemployed members of the working class or as criminals)
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Muybridge
Definition
English photographer, photographic studies of motion and motion-picture projection, set up a series of cameras in order to prove how the horse could run
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Dickson
Definition
Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the deployment of Thomas Edison – the Kinetoscope
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Griffith
Definition
American film director, Birth of a Nation, Biograph Company
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Bitzer
Definition
cinematographer with close association to DW Griffith, used fade out to close a movie scene, the iris shot, Biograph Company
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Lang
Definition
Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter, German expressionism, Metropolis
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Zukor
Definition
Hungarian film mogul, founder of Paramount Pictures
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Laemmle
Definition
one of the founders to one of the first major Hollywood movie studios, Universal
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Carne
Definition
French film director, Port of Shadows
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Metropolis
Definition
• 1927 German expressionist sci fi
• directed by Fritz Lang
• written by Thea Von Harbou
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Battleship Potemkin
Definition
• 1925 Soviet film
• directed by Sergei Eisenstein
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Port of Shadows
Definition
• 1938 French poetic realism film
• directed by Marcel Carne
• written by Jacques Prevert
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Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Definition
• 1920 German expressionist, silent horror film
• directed by Robert Wiene
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A Dog's Life
Definition
• 1918 American film
• directed by Charlie Chaplin
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Cabiria
Definition
• 1914 silent Italian film
• directed by Giovanni Pastrone
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Great Train Robbery
Definition
• 1903 American Western film, about 12 minutes long
• directed by Edwin S Porter
• Edison manufacturing Company
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Rescued by Rover
Definition
• 1905 British short silent film
• directed by Cecil Hepworth
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A Trip to the Moon
Definition
• 1902 French silent sci fi film, runs about 14 minutes long
• directed by Georges Melies
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A Girl and her Trust
Definition
• 1912 American film, runs about 12 minutes long
• directed by DW Griffith
• Biograph Company
• Cinematography by GW Bitzer
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House with the Closed Shutters
Definition
• 1910 American film, about 28 minutes long
• directed by DW Griffith, Biograph
• cinematography by GW Bitzer
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Innovations of the independents
Definition
▪ Star system: Chaplin- first super-star, etc.
▪ Feature-length films: 'The Squaw Man' (1912) dir. C.B. Demille
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Vitascope
Definition
Edison's film projector
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