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LACC Cinema 3 Test 1
Professor Kuntz Chapters 1-3
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
09/27/2016

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Term
1st toy for entertainment, takes advantage of vision, patented in US by Milton Bradley
Definition
Zoetrope
Term
1st photograph of _____ was taken in the year ____ in the country of ____
Definition
rooftop out a window, 1826, France
Term
Niepce's Photograph is the
Definition
1st photograph taken 1826 in France
Term
1839 Daguerrotype is a type of ____ that was much ____ quality and hard to ____
Definition
photo that was high quality and hard to copy
Term
Who came up with plastic roll film?
Definition
Eastman Kodak in 1888
Term
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.
Definition
Eastman Kodak 1888
Term
who got hte first photo with a visible person in 1838?
Definition
Louis Daguerre, man getting his shoe shined
Term
Edward Muybridge is mostly known for his
Definition
sequential photography of animals, the horse
Term
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!"
Definition
Muybridge
Term
Etienne Jules Marey was interested in ____ so he came up with the ____
Definition
birds, camera gun,

most famous one is Pigeon Landing
Term
Who invented the gramophone?
Definition
Thomas Edison
Term
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?
Definition
Thomas Edison
Term
In 1891 the ____ is invented and patented as a device for recording movement or light
Definition
Kinetograph
Term
what is the first movie studio ever? who opened it?
Definition
The Black Maria - Thomas Edison
Term
What is the 1st film copyrighted in the US?
Definition
Fred Ott's Sneeze 1894
Term
- 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
Definition
The Lumiere Brothers
Term
When was the first movie shown to public?
Definition
December 28, 1895 - The Grand Cafe Paris France - Lumiere Bros
Term
The Lumiere Bros built their camera to run on a ______ rather than _____ which made it lightweight
Definition
handcrank, no electricity which made it lightweight
Term
Edison's version of the kinetoscope was the _____ which projected his images to show in Vaudeville
Definition
Vitascope
Term
first form of entertainment that took advantage of the large population entertainment. low admission price. weekly program change. on a circuit. family friendly.

what is this?
Definition
Vaudeville 1896
Term
a series of unconnected acts (6-8-12 different ones) all mixed together one after another all on stage - what is this describing?
Definition
Vaudeville
Term
Biograph and Vitagraph are 2 companies that were competing with _____ in the late 1890s
Definition
Biograph - Dickson
Vitagraph- Blackton
Term
Blackton's vitagraph focused on ______ because of the yellow journalists
Definition
War re-enactment films (Manila Bay in bathtub)
Term
Dickson's biograph co created the mutoscope which was different than Edison's because he used ______
Definition
70mm film
Term
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

What was this called?
Definition
Hale's Tours
Term
- 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
in 1902 makes TRIP TO THE MOON
Definition
Gerges Melies
Term
Who: Accidentally stopped camera on wedding procession, by the time it was working again he caught a funeral procession = BAM special effect was born!
Definition
George Meleis
Term
Who was the first one to make a narrative film? One with a beginning, middle and the end? Trip to the Moon!
Definition
George Melies
Term
Why was Trip to the Moon by Meleis so significant?
Definition
1st movie that was a narrative. had a beginning, middle and an end
Term
1st multishot cross cutting film was ____ by Edwin S porter
Definition
The Great Train Robbery
Term
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
Definition
Nickelodeons
Term
Edison, Biograph and Vitagraph shifted the movie focus to
Definition
Fiction films
Term
The following names are all ______ that entered into ______ in 1908
Edison / Biograph / Vitagraph
Selig / Essanay / Lubin / Kleine / Kalem
Star (Melies) / Pathe
Definition
production companies; The Trust 1908
Term
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.
Definition
The Trust
Term
Independent Motion Picture Co Carl Lammele later would found ______
Definition
Universal Pictures
Term
1910 – William Fox -MPPC forms the General Film Co which is the 1st nationwide ____
Definition
distributor
Term
who came up with close up, medium and long shots and edited for meaning?
Definition
DW Griffith
Term
• 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
These are all works done by ____
Definition
DW Griffith
Term
In 1914 the 1st nationwide feature distribution system comes along. _____ had the most systems because he was distributing Zukor's famous players.
Definition
WW Hodkinson
Term
Zukor buys Hodkinson out and creates
Definition
Zukor & Famous Players Lasky
Term
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


This is describing what
Definition
block booking
Term
1910-1915 people were flooding to _____ because:

350 Sunny days a year, landscape, inexpensive and non-unionized
Definition
Hollywood!
Term
1st feature film shot in Hollywood called ________ western film shot in Dunlasky barn near Selma and Vine in 1913
Definition
Squaw Man
Term
______ created the studio system as a mass production system after Ford Motors and it was very successful
Definition
Thomas Ince
Term
_______ 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
Definition
Producers
Term
What devastates Euro film business and puts Hollywood years ahead ?
Definition
World War I
Term
- 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


This is describing WHO?
Definition
Mary Pickford
Term
"The Vamp" played by _____ comes along in 1885-1955 and makes mostly FOX Films
Definition
Theda Bara
Term
The western king who played intense harsh morality films, HS near valencia named after him
Definition
William Hart
Term
- 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
Definition
Keystone
Term
______ is the greatest comedian to come out of Keystone studios
Definition
Charlie Chaplin
Term
In 1934 _____ joins Mack Sennett & Keystone and makes 34 films in one year
Definition
Chaplin
Term
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
Definition
The Tramp
Term
_________ and __________ come together in 1919 to create United Artists
Definition
Chaplin and Pickford
Term
_______ 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!
Definition
First National
Term
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
Definition
Zucar
Term
high dollar actors were happy to see First National competing with Paramount because ______
Definition
their salaries wouldn't be cut
Term
United Artists is a distributor only, they distribute to allow ______ producers to get to the public without going through big corps.
Definition
Independent
Term
Marcus Lowe, Louis Mayer and Sam Goldwyn found _____
Very large company that competes with Paramount
-Put out Ben Hur and The Big Parade
Definition
MGM
Term
_____ 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
Definition
Sam Goldwyn
Term
Paramount Theatre opened in NYC in ____
Definition
1926
Term
- 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

Who is this man?
Definition
Douglas Fairbanks
Term
- 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
Definition
Rudolph Valentino
Term
-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

Who is this woman?
Definition
Clara Bow
Term
-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"

Who is this?
Definition
Greta Garbo
Term
Frances Marion, June Mathis, Bess Meredyth and Anita Loos are all ______ in 1920s Hollywood and had huge roles in shaping it.
Definition
female writers
Term
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
Definition
Tom Mix
Term
-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
Definition
Lon Chaney
Term
-1921 he releases the 1st feature length comedy called The Kid built around his tramp character
- also known for doing LOTS of retakes
Definition
Charlie Chaplin
Term
-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
Definition
Buster Keaton
Term
a silent comedian
-He’s a nerd, wears glass frames, films always end with spectacular scenes like chases or skyscraper scaling
Definition
Harold Lloyd
Term
-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 ____
Definition
Hal Roach
Term
-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
Definition
Cecile B DeMille
Term
-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
Definition
Erin Von Stroheim
Term
-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
Definition
King Vidor
Term
Did The Great Robbery come out in 1890s, 1900s or 1920s?
Definition
1900s
Term
The Soviet Montage created Serious interest in _______, that the editor could control what goes on in a film
Definition
rapid film editing
Term
_____ led the Bolshevik revolution, became head of communist party
Definition
Lenin
Term
What did Trotsky do in Russia?
Definition
Led the Red Army
Term
Dziga Vertov shot ______ on the go all day for the red army
Definition
propaganda on the soviet agitprop traim
Term
Vertov was known for two big films in 1920s, one that's the best in history:
Definition
-1922-5 Kino-Pravda, Kine Eye
-1929 The Man with a Movie Camera
Term
kino pravda translates to
Definition
cinema true
Term
Lev Kuleshov did experiments in film editing. His three main ones are creative _____, ______, and ______
Definition
emotion, anatomy and geography
Term
Who did this and what was it called?

Cut together workout videos and edited it all up so it looked like one person 
Definition
creative anatomy by Kuleshov
Term
cut films of two people walking in different countries to show that the editor can create the space.

who did this and what was it called?
Definition
creative geography - Kuleshov
Term
Battleship Potemkin is known for it's:

use of _______
and the _____ Sequence
Definition
1. use of rapid editing
2. The Odessa Step Sequence
Term
Sergei Eisenstein was known for films such as:
Definition
Strike! Battleship Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World
Term
Eisenstein is still remembered for these two elements he put into Battle of Potemkin:
Definition
rapid editing, Odessa Step Sequence
Term
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.
Definition
Stalin
Term
- Stalin appoints __________ to oversee film business and get rid of artistic people
Definition
Boris Chuviotsky
Term
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
Definition
VI Pudovkin 1893-1953
Term
when does psychology of cinema come in?
Definition
German Expressionism - Weimar Cinema
Term
In 1918 WWI ends, Germany is defeated and France and Italy insist the government be altered into the ___________
Definition
Weimar Republic
Term
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
Definition
Weimar Republic
Term
the art movement that arises in Germany during the desperate times after WWI is
Definition
Expressionism
Term
Which art movement:
Uses art to show people’s psychological portrait of things
-Shows weirdly altered and distorted by mental state of people
Definition
Expressionism
Term
the first modern country to ever deal with hyperinflation is
Definition
Germany in 1923
Term
In 1920s fascination with ____ ideas of psychology and human sexual desires and warring thoughts arises.
Definition
Freud's
Term
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.
Definition
Determinism
Term
- Darker side of human personality that we all have, no matter how nice you are. Part of German Expressionism

What is this called?
Definition
The Shadow
Term
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
Definition
Doppelganger
Term
- 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
Definition
UFA
Term
- 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
Definition
Ernst Lubitsch
Term
the 1st successful German Expressionism film is
Definition
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1919
Term
Karl Freund is a famous cinematographer that started in Germany and ended up doing
Definition
I Love Lucy in Hollywood
Term
who is the best German Expresionism filmmaker?
Definition
Fritz Lang
Term
Metropolis, M, Fury, Die Nibelungen and Dr. Mabuse are all made by
Definition
Fritz Lang
Term
this filmmaker is known for ending disastrously and made the original master criminal
Definition
Fritz Lang
Term
- Amazing “poet with a camera”
- So expressive he doesn’t really need words in his films
1888-1931
Definition
FW Murnau
Term
- Amazing “poet with a camera”
- So expressive he doesn’t really need words in his films
1888-1931
Definition
FW Murnau
Term
who did the first telling of Dracula vampire story?
Definition
FW Murnau in Nosferatu
Term
the lead actor of FW Murnau's 1924 ________ wins 1st best actor award in 1927
Definition
The Last Laugh
Term
__________ changed the look of women around the world with bob-hair, simple clothes and pearls
Definition
Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box
Term
who created The 3 Penny Opera, Diary of a lost Girl, Pandora's Box and the Joyless Streeet
Definition
GW Pabst
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