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| 1st toy for entertainment, takes advantage of vision, patented in US by Milton Bradley |
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| 1st photograph of _____ was taken in the year ____ in the country of ____ |
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| rooftop out a window, 1826, France |
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| 1st photograph taken 1826 in France |
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| 1839 Daguerrotype is a type of ____ that was much ____ quality and hard to ____ |
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| photo that was high quality and hard to copy |
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| Who came up with plastic roll film? |
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o Realized he could make a lot more money if he made amateur photography and anyone could use it so the market would be huge
o Came up with paper roll but found that that tore easily so after that failed he came up with plastic. Began mass producing this for all people to use. |
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| who got hte first photo with a visible person in 1838? |
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| Louis Daguerre, man getting his shoe shined |
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| Edward Muybridge is mostly known for his |
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| sequential photography of animals, the horse |
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| Who came up with the idea of "if I drop these photos of animals into a Zoetrope and spin it I will get a motion picture, bam first motion picture!" |
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| Etienne Jules Marey was interested in ____ so he came up with the ____ |
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birds, camera gun,
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| Who invented the gramophone? |
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| The graphophone was beginning to take off and people enjoyed listening to music but he thought how can we have an image connected to the music. - Who is ths? |
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| In 1891 the ____ is invented and patented as a device for recording movement or light |
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| what is the first movie studio ever? who opened it? |
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| The Black Maria - Thomas Edison |
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| What is the 1st film copyrighted in the US? |
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- Invented shooting things documentary style & projecting things to groups of people in a dark room
- They had a business for manufacturing photography parts,
- Had no access to a camera as Edison kept it secret
- Ironed out something in the summer of 1895 and came up with cinematographe |
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| When was the first movie shown to public? |
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| December 28, 1895 - The Grand Cafe Paris France - Lumiere Bros |
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| The Lumiere Bros built their camera to run on a ______ rather than _____ which made it lightweight |
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| handcrank, no electricity which made it lightweight |
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| Edison's version of the kinetoscope was the _____ which projected his images to show in Vaudeville |
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first form of entertainment that took advantage of the large population entertainment. low admission price. weekly program change. on a circuit. family friendly.
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| a series of unconnected acts (6-8-12 different ones) all mixed together one after another all on stage - what is this describing? |
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| Biograph and Vitagraph are 2 companies that were competing with _____ in the late 1890s |
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Biograph - Dickson
Vitagraph- Blackton |
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| Blackton's vitagraph focused on ______ because of the yellow journalists |
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| War re-enactment films (Manila Bay in bathtub) |
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| Dickson's biograph co created the mutoscope which was different than Edison's because he used ______ |
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o Built simulated rail car at the park and you’d watch movies projected on the front screen making it look like you’re on a real railroad trip
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- Introduced storytelling into movies & that movies don’t need to be photos of real world but they can be fantasy, science fiction and imagination
- Play producer in Paris – owned most successful magic theatre that Houdini was named after
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| Who: Accidentally stopped camera on wedding procession, by the time it was working again he caught a funeral procession = BAM special effect was born! |
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| Who was the first one to make a narrative film? One with a beginning, middle and the end? Trip to the Moon! |
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| Why was Trip to the Moon by Meleis so significant? |
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| 1st movie that was a narrative. had a beginning, middle and an end |
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| 1st multishot cross cutting film was ____ by Edwin S porter |
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The following is not describing vaudeville, it is describing what?
Converted store / theater, seats 75-300
• Low admission price, 5-10 cents
• One reel subjects: topicals, westerns &
melodramas
• Frequent change of program
• Films rented from distribution exchanges |
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| Edison, Biograph and Vitagraph shifted the movie focus to |
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The following names are all ______ that entered into ______ in 1908
Edison / Biograph / Vitagraph
Selig / Essanay / Lubin / Kleine / Kalem
Star (Melies) / Pathe |
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| production companies; The Trust 1908 |
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This is describing ________
It was an attempt to legally monopolize production in the burgeoning American film industry. The organization was devoted to protecting patents and keeping other players from entering the film industry. Ten producers were granted licenses to use equipment authorized, while everyone else was ruled to be running illegal film production operations. |
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| Independent Motion Picture Co Carl Lammele later would found ______ |
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| 1910 – William Fox -MPPC forms the General Film Co which is the 1st nationwide ____ |
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| who came up with close up, medium and long shots and edited for meaning? |
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• 1915 Feb – THE BIRTH OF A NATION
• 1916 – INTOLERANCE
• 1918 HEARTS OF THE WORLD Paramount Artcraft
• 1919 United Artists
• 1919 BROKEN BLOSSOMS Para/UA
• 1921 WAY DOWN EAST UA
• 1921 ORPHANS OF THE STORM
• 1924 AMERICA
• 1924 ISN’T LIFE WONDERFUL
• 1925 SALLY OF THE SAWDUST
• 1930 ABRAHAM LINCOLM
• 1931 THE STRUGGLE – last film
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| In 1914 the 1st nationwide feature distribution system comes along. _____ had the most systems because he was distributing Zukor's famous players. |
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| Zukor buys Hodkinson out and creates |
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| Zukor & Famous Players Lasky |
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o Distribution policy which means when you rent your features to a theatre, they have to take ALL for the year or NONE. So a theatre booked all of Paramount’s for the year aka the weak films were carried into the market by the stronger ones
o Used by all Hollywood majors until 1940s when Federal Govt intervenes
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1910-1915 people were flooding to _____ because:
350 Sunny days a year, landscape, inexpensive and non-unionized |
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| 1st feature film shot in Hollywood called ________ western film shot in Dunlasky barn near Selma and Vine in 1913 |
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| ______ created the studio system as a mass production system after Ford Motors and it was very successful |
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_______ dominated system, concerned of spending and making of $ and turning out a quality product
oMain tool ______ use to control costs is a screenplay and script |
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| What devastates Euro film business and puts Hollywood years ahead ? |
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- Starts out as a teenager, goes to Broadway at age 19 then goes to Famous Players later Paramount
- Plays little Victorian heroine
- Plays childhood heroes of childrens books
- Not only significant performer but also a producer of her own films – later cofounder of United Artists which is a distribution agency
- Marries male superstar Douglas Fairbanks in “Pig or Pickfair” sector of Beverly Hills
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| "The Vamp" played by _____ comes along in 1885-1955 and makes mostly FOX Films |
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| The western king who played intense harsh morality films, HS near valencia named after him |
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- Mack Sennett started _______ studios in 1912 after being a Vaudeville comedian
- Creates our idea of silent comedy ex/ food fights, funny looking characters, chase scenes
- Also had “bathing beauties”- pretty girls in background |
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| ______ is the greatest comedian to come out of Keystone studios |
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| In 1934 _____ joins Mack Sennett & Keystone and makes 34 films in one year |
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| CHaplin came up with the character of the ______ and played the character. Guy with ill fitting clothes, painted on mustache, guy on bottom of society |
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| _________ and __________ come together in 1919 to create United Artists |
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| _______ was created by theater chains because they were scared Paramount was getting too strong. It's the first producer, distributor and exhibitor all in one! |
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| 1920s after FIrst National, _____ realized he wanted to compete. if you wanted to be in the big leagues you had to be a producer, distributor and exhibitor |
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| high dollar actors were happy to see First National competing with Paramount because ______ |
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| their salaries wouldn't be cut |
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| United Artists is a distributor only, they distribute to allow ______ producers to get to the public without going through big corps. |
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Marcus Lowe, Louis Mayer and Sam Goldwyn found _____
Very large company that competes with Paramount
-Put out Ben Hur and The Big Parade |
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| _____ from MGM goes out on his own as an indep producer and Marcus tries to stop him from using his own name, doesn't pass in court |
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| Paramount Theatre opened in NYC in ____ |
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- Played all American, strong, hero types, with sense of humor, go-getter people
- 1920 radically changes image to Mark of Zorro – 1st costumed secret identity super hero
- married to Mary Pickford
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- Contrasting male superstar - the Latin lover
- Masculine man slim strong and wiry, devastatingly serious romantic
- Big roles: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik
- 1926 dies suddenly in NYC at age 31
o The lines to view his body in NYC were blocks long, brought out to Hollywood Forever Cemetery to bury him there |
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-In 1920s you became a “modern woman” when you bob cut your hair
-Known as The “IT” girl because she starred in a film called IT – IT is an exuberant sexuality
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-Lived last 50 years of her life and wasn’t ever photographed or publicly appeared
-Interesting because she was the first movie actor that theater critics took seriously
oMost critics made fun of movies until her
- played the "other woman"
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| Frances Marion, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth and Anita Loos are all ______ in 1920s Hollywood and had huge roles in shaping it. |
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known for being so handsome, nice clothes and Tony – the “Wonder Horse” most brilliant horse that saves him in each movie
- westerns became more fun in this era with this actor |
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-Man of 1,000 faces
-Unusual performer
-Famous for elaborate makeup and prosthetic devices that he would wear to disguise himself in films
-Plays phantom of opera, hunchback of notre dame, the vampire |
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-1921 he releases the 1st feature length comedy called The Kid built around his tramp character
- also known for doing LOTS of retakes |
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-Great silent comedian
-Born in US, parents were Vaudeville comedians, joined the act at only age 3
-Great at taking falls like down stairs etc. Houdini saw him do a fall and said “quite a buster” the name stuck |
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a silent comedian
-He’s a nerd, wears glass frames, films always end with spectacular scenes like chases or skyscraper scaling |
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-1892-1992
-Great producer
-took over comedy, produced many short films and features
-He came up with Laurel & Hardy comedies and Our Gang comedies,
- All of our gang groups had African American kid
hahahhaa ____ |
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-Stereotype of great director
-Learned from Griffith not to make controversial films
-Always spent a ton on his films but always made a bunch back, pretty women and awesome sets in films
-He wrote articles, gave speeches about Hollywood, appeared in trailers/previews
-1914 Squaw Man, 1915 The Cheat, 1920 Why Change Your Wife, 1923 The 10 Commandments 1927 King of Kings |
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-Had very adult movies, over 2 hours, expensive to make, not for everyone, rape, sex, inappropriate things, goes over budget and over length
-Stars in lots of his films |
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-1928 The Crowd – movie about American couple who tries hard but FAILS which was a new, interesting and different plot
-1929 Hallelujah- all African American cast |
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| Did The Great Robbery come out in 1890s, 1900s or 1920s? |
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| The Soviet Montage created Serious interest in _______, that the editor could control what goes on in a film |
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| _____ led the Bolshevik revolution, became head of communist party |
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| What did Trotsky do in Russia? |
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| Dziga Vertov shot ______ on the go all day for the red army |
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| propaganda on the soviet agitprop traim |
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| Vertov was known for two big films in 1920s, one that's the best in history: |
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-1922-5 Kino-Pravda, Kine Eye
-1929 The Man with a Movie Camera |
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| kino pravda translates to |
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| Lev Kuleshov did experiments in film editing. His three main ones are creative _____, ______, and ______ |
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| emotion, anatomy and geography |
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Who did this and what was it called?
Cut together workout videos and edited it all up so it looked like one person |
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| creative anatomy by Kuleshov |
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cut films of two people walking in different countries to show that the editor can create the space.
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| creative geography - Kuleshov |
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Battleship Potemkin is known for it's:
use of _______
and the _____ Sequence |
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1. use of rapid editing
2. The Odessa Step Sequence |
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| Sergei Eisenstein was known for films such as: |
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| Strike! Battleship Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World |
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| Eisenstein is still remembered for these two elements he put into Battle of Potemkin: |
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| rapid editing, Odessa Step Sequence |
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| During the making of OCtober/Ten Days that Shook the World, ______ wasn't happy and puts a policy in which movies can have no more art, each film must have propaganda. |
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| - Stalin appoints __________ to oversee film business and get rid of artistic people |
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this soviet montage filmmaker is:
- Traditional thinking – each film is like a brick in the wall, each shot is linked in montage
-More conservative editing than Eisenstein |
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| when does psychology of cinema come in? |
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| German Expressionism - Weimar Cinema |
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| In 1918 WWI ends, Germany is defeated and France and Italy insist the government be altered into the ___________ |
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The below describes the time in which the ______ was ruling in Germany 1919-1933
-Loose collection of cities
-Period of abandon, people acting like there’s no tomorrow, extremes were out, time of desperation
-Extremes fighting in streets |
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| the art movement that arises in Germany during the desperate times after WWI is |
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Which art movement:
Uses art to show people’s psychological portrait of things
-Shows weirdly altered and distorted by mental state of people |
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| the first modern country to ever deal with hyperinflation is |
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| In 1920s fascination with ____ ideas of psychology and human sexual desires and warring thoughts arises. |
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What is the below called?
Everything is determined already, there is no free will. We are all acting out a play that has already been written and we are all pawns. The minute we’re born the only thing we know is that we’re going to die. |
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- Darker side of human personality that we all have, no matter how nice you are. Part of German Expressionism
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Part of German Expressionism
- Evil doubles, idea that everyone has a double somewhere in the world just like them but with a dark side of your personality |
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- created in 1917 for war propaganda
-All production companies get together to make one company to try to help economy during war
- Produce most films, own key theatres, etc.
- Tasked to get foreign currency so make films that may be popular around the world
- 1921 Privatized |
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- Leading director for UFA to make costume dramas (excellent sets, and costumes)
- Makes movies about kings and queens and bedroom activities
-Sex and glamour rule the films (mistresses etc.)
-They make a lot of money
-Director is so successful he leaves Germany and goes to Hollywood |
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| the 1st successful German Expressionism film is |
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| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1919 |
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| Karl Freund is a famous cinematographer that started in Germany and ended up doing |
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| who is the best German Expresionism filmmaker? |
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| Metropolis, M, Fury, Die Nibelungen and Dr. Mabuse are all made by |
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| this filmmaker is known for ending disastrously and made the original master criminal |
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- Amazing “poet with a camera”
- So expressive he doesn’t really need words in his films
1888-1931 |
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- Amazing “poet with a camera”
- So expressive he doesn’t really need words in his films
1888-1931 |
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| who did the first telling of Dracula vampire story? |
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| the lead actor of FW Murnau's 1924 ________ wins 1st best actor award in 1927 |
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| __________ changed the look of women around the world with bob-hair, simple clothes and pearls |
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| Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box |
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| who created The 3 Penny Opera, Diary of a lost Girl, Pandora's Box and the Joyless Streeet |
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