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| Who coined the term documentaries are "reality fictions" in 1960s? |
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| What mode of documentary has the voice of God, addresses viewer directly, raises ethical questions ? ex/ nanook of the / night mail |
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what mode of documentary is referred to as direct cinema or ciname verite (true cinema)?
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What mode of documentary Stresses images of testimony or verbal exchange and images of demonstration
oMichael moore- jarring techniques, you know there’s an agenda
-Filmmaker interacts with the subject |
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| Participatory/Performative |
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| What mode of documentary are the following examples of? Man with a Movie Camera, The Thin Blue Line, An Inconvenient Truth, Cartel Land |
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| What mode of documentary emphasizes the encounter of the filmmaker with the VIEWER rather than the subject, also - Mixing observational passages with interviews, voice-over with inter-titles and animation with footage? |
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Which mode of documentary addresses the viewer directly, with titles or voices that advance an argument about the historical world
• The ______ mode raises ethical questions of voice: of how the text speaks objectively or persuasively (or as an instrument of propaganda) |
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| Primary and Grey gardens are examples of the ____ mode of documentary |
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| cartel land, the thin blue line and an inconvenient truth are all examples of _____ mode of documentaries |
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| Documentary films attempt to increase our _____, _____ and _____ for their subjects |
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| interest, understanding and sympathy |
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| Rather than personal style, documentary film making requires _______ |
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| The docu film maker is after _____ rather than artistic expression |
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| why do people make documentaries? |
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| to both please and instruct, there's a motivation or passion behind it. to address a public event. |
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| the word documentary has a root in the word document which comes from latin _______ which means to teach |
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| who said the defn of documentary is " a record that is both factual and authentic after watching Flaherty's Moana? |
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| in the _______, documentary actually becomes a form of study, first film school opens in USSR because Lenin puts up 1st state sponsored school |
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| who is the most talked about docu auteur ? |
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| the newsreel tradition came of of the expansion of ______ at the beginning of the 20th century |
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| to see ___________, you could be in a room with 2,000-6,000 other people and see a whole nights worth |
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| newsreels appeared in nickeolodeon theaters in 19_____ |
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| the first newsreel company to distribute newsreels in the US was _______ |
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| by the end of the 19_______s, majority of motion picture studios had newsreel divisions that produced and distributed films |
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| THE BIG 5 were different from the little 3 because they owned their own ______ |
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| ____ Usually last 15 minutes, 5-7 stories cut together, serious news pieces but some may be entertaining because no one was traveling so much so it was an interesting way to see the world in 30s and 40s |
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| propaganda tradition dates back to the _____ in 1622 |
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| Catholic church when Pope Gregory commissioned a committee to propagate the Catholic Faith |
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| ______ in 1818-18883 promoted the use of propaganda; it was supposed to educate the masses |
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| ____________ was 1st to use sustained extensive and peacetime use of propaganda following October revolution of 1917 to promote establishment of new government. |
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| the ______ _____ tradition emerged as part of the Euro avant garde movement in 1920s |
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this tradition
- Dealt with issues of time/space
- Influenced by physical sciences including work of Planck (quantum mechanics) and Einstein (theory of relativity) |
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the ______ tradition includes
- Surrealist and experimental modern artists like Leger, Dali, Stand, Bunuel and Sheeler come out of this tradition
- tries to interpret how we could visually see music
- Uses film in a very different way because of burgeoning field of psychology |
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| who invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879? |
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| what is the zoopraxiscope? |
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| early glass device fro displaying motion pictures |
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| what is considered the 1st movie projector? |
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| who developed chrono photography aka the camera gun? |
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| Jules Marey to capture birds landing/ in flight |
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| Who figured out you could shoot 24-36 frames per second? |
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| Jules Marey using dry plates |
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| who was dubbed the "wizard of Meno Park" |
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| who was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and teamwork? |
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| huge contributor to motion picture, invented gramophone, most interested in manufacturing motion pictures |
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| Who invented 1st practical celluloid film for this app and decided on 35mm for the size which is still used today? |
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| the ______ debuts in a parlor owned by the Holland brothers on April 14, 1894 in NYC |
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| what is the date cinema was born? |
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| The _____ _____, a French fur company that distributed Flaherty's Nanook of the North |
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| what is the first feature length documentary? |
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| ______ of docu films focus on something other than human conditions |
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| the _____ of documentary is mainly determined by subject, purpose and approach |
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| production _____ and _____ refer to the ways images are shot, recorded and edited together |
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| documentaries are usually shot on location and use ____ lighting |
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| natural/source rather than key lights |
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| docu aesthetic is _____ ____ rather than personal style |
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| what are the "documents" of documentaries? |
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| Grierson says after watching Moana in 1926 that a docu is a ___- |
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| record that's both factual and authentic. |
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| in 1930s Grierson dubs his films the "___ |
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| creative treatment of actuality" |
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| who wrote Documentary Film 1935, the book that outlined the 4 traditions/purposes of docu films? |
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| _____ tradition parallels the development of anthropology as a social science. The goal of these anthros were to record endangered cultures that might vanish |
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| Edison's patent in 1888 was for a machine called ____ that "does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" ... record and reproduce objects in motion |
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| 1st working prototype of the _____ was unveiled in May 1891 |
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| 1st working prototype of the _____ was unveiled in May 1891 |
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| the first subjects to appear before the Kinetograph at the Black Maria were _____ ___ |
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| vaudeville performers such as Eugene Sandow, Carmencita and Annabelle |
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| who produced and distributed Nanook of the North? |
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| Pathe Exchange distributed, Revillion funded the voyage |
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| John Grierson coins term documentary in his review of Flaherty's |
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| every ______ film had a sponsor OUTSIDE of the hollywood agency to help sell films to the public |
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| Flaherty didn't work well on govt films because |
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| he liked a flexible budget & natural chronology , wasn't good in groups |
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| In what order do countries make feature length documentary films ? |
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1. America - Flaherty
2. Soviets
3. British |
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| - Russian revolutionary, political/economic theorist/ founder of the Union of Soveit Socialist Republics FOUNDER OF USSR |
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| 1917 rebellion, it was the proletariats vs ______ |
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| bourgeois, either really rich or really poor no middle class |
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| In April 1917 Lenin writes his April Theses which outlines his program for the _____ party |
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| Lenin argues for new kind of governing in his April Theses... this governing is called |
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| ______ and Lenin's beliefs were in line. People who live in a communist state are always in revolution, everyone owns everything, all are equal |
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| Why did Lenin say "of all the arts, the cinema is the most important to us" after becoming head of USSR? |
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- working class couldn't read or write but they could understand pictures and video
- cinema is a universal language |
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| In 1918 Lenin created The People's Commissariat of Education which is where |
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| taxpayers are going to pay for movies put out by the govt |
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| in 1919 the soviet film industry is _____; the State Institute of Cinematography is created |
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| the first country to nationalize the film industry is |
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| What was created in 1922 THAT FAILED by Lenin which nearly tripled film budget for the year and attempted to make a distribution monopoly? |
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| in order to succeed as a film maker in USSR around 1925, you had to sell that ____ is the only way to live |
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| who is the first docu film maker to write about film theory? |
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| Who legitimizd the theory of film? |
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| The soviets- Lev Kuleshov |
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| who was the 1st to explore montage editing/theory |
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| Soviets thought film is a medium to make one ____ |
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| The ____ movement: Vertov was interested in it, it promoted art as a social function and emphasized modern technology & industrial production |
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| who compared human perception to an eye of a camera |
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| Vertov differed from Flaherty in that he wanted to capture |
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| Life as it is, life caught unawares |
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| Soviet Montage theorists were all united in combating against |
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| Who saw fiction film as cine-nicotine - drug that dulled viewer's awareness of social and political reality? |
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| Vertov believed there didn't need to be a _____, _____ or _____ to each film. He rejected ____ |
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| beginning, middle or end, he rejected linear narrative |
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| _______ is so great because Vertov emphasized that the filmmaker should calculate the difference between shots - light vs dark, fast vs slow motion etc. |
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| Vertov's original idea for Man with A Movie Camera was to film it in one ______. |
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| city. but that didn't happen it's shot in 3 cities |
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| what is the very first reflexive documentary film? |
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| what film was considered an experiment? |
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| Vertov's man with a movie camera |
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| who is the MOST significant soviet filmmaker and film theorist? |
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| whose approach to cinema was 100% unique into thinking you had to study theory of cinema first, then go get a camera |
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| soviets are best known for making _______ NOT documentaries. _____ is the only documentarist |
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| Docu-dramas. Vertov is only documentarist |
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| who wrote 1923 Montage of Attractions - 1st argument about collision montage |
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| What type of montage is a series of disconnected images that form together and create one single meaning |
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| collision montage - Eisenstein |
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| what was Eisenstein's best docu-drama? but What is he best KNOWN For |
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| Strike! is his best one but best known for Odessa Stair Sequence and rapid editing |
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| A key moment in film theory is in 1926 when ______ writes two pamphlets called Film Language |
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| who is a female director that worked alongside Eisenstein? |
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| Esfir Shub is best known for making ____ ____ |
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| compilation docus. Because of her we have newsreels like March of Times |
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| Because of ______ we have news reels like March of Times |
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| who is the very first female documentary filmmaker? |
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| Esfir Shub made 3 important films: |
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| 1. Fall of Romanov Dynasty 2. Great Road 3. Russia of Nicholas and Leo |
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| Fall of Romanov Dynasty, Great Road and Russia of Nicholas and Leo were made by |
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| female director and editor Esfir Shub |
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| Esfir Shub's contributions were most felt and liked in the _____ |
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| United states. She was also a fan of American cinema |
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| Victor Turin is known for making ____ documentaries, very similar to Grierson and Flaherty |
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| 1929 Turksib was important because it was about the |
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| railway between Turkistan and Siberia which connects the hottest and coldest part of Russia for trading |
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| this film is the only one of these type of experimental films to actually be produced by a major motion picture studio: Fox Europa. what is hte film? |
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| City Symphony - Berlin die Symphone der Grodstadt 1927 |
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| which mode of documentary becomes most popular in 1930s-1950s? |
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| independent films differ from hollywood cinema because they (are/ are not) guaranteed distribution and they are (shorter/longer) films meant for (everyone/very specific audience) |
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| independents are very short, not guaranteed distribution and meant for a very specific audience |
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| to support their work, independent film makers had to |
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| use their own money then find a rich patron or museum to sponsor |
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artsy alternative films were made to
a) make money
b) for the artists themselves
c) entertain people |
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| b) for artists themselves |
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| why was WWI different than other wars? |
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- trench warfare
-machine gun
- 1st one to be filmed
-use of propaganda
- 1st war with aircraft, by sea and ground |
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| when Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Austria |
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| what does avant garde mean? |
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| what happens at The Bow House in Germany after WWI? |
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| it booms with popularity: architects, artists, filmmakers discuss state of Germany and self expression through art. |
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| when did cine clubs become popular? |
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| the 1930s. most museums all had them |
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| What is the last German expressionist film? |
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France - impressionism Britain - realism Germany - expressionism
Italy - _____ |
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| who constructed Film Noir in the US? |
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| the very talented Jewish migrants who fled UFA when Hitler takes over Germany in the 1930s |
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| experimental filmmakers found the conventions of fictional filmmaking both ____ and ___ |
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why was fictional film making limiting?
why was it limited? |
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- limiting because it was more conservative, highly censored, had to satisfy producer
- limited because of the audience and the films are meant to make money not express art |
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| picture palaces had an average of ____ to _____ seats |
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| docu filmmakers vs avant gardists. Docus thought conventional films were ( too realistic/ not realistic enough) |
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| documentary filmmakers thought conventional films weren't realistic, avant gardists opposed this. |
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what type of filmmakers (avant gardists or docu filmmakers)
Wanted FORMAL (aesthetic) patterns and INNER (subjective) truths presented poetically. Didn’t want to see a love story and KNOW what happens |
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| what is the first narrative film ever? |
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| George Melies A Trip to the Mooon |
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| a story with a beginning, middle and end |
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| what is the first film to have cross cutting? |
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| where did Futurism originate? |
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| where did Futurism originate? |
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| According to Italian Futurist FT Marinetti, _____ was the only form of beauty. He also completely rejected french impressionism |
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| what type of alternative cinema filmmakers celebrate technology the way we do today, admire speed, youth & violence, car, airplane and industrial city? |
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These folks are key contributors to the _____ movement -
Painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, GIACOMO BALLA, Gino Severini and composer Luigi Russolo, film maker Marinetti |
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| in 1921 _______ got together with his friend __________ and wanted to see if you could visually hear film so their goal was to create some sort of visual music through animation |
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| what was the first animated film? |
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| Rhythmus 21 in 1921 by Richter |
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| Eggeling's Diagonal Symphony in 1924 was the 1st of its kind because it feels like a _______ composed with images |
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| what is Egg and Richter's big question in the 1920s? |
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| Can you actually see what you hear? |
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| what type of alternative cinema is anti-art, encourages absurdism and based on creativity on randomness and imagination? |
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| the ____ factor and non-sensical aspect is important to ______ |
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| who led Dadaism and wrote the manifesto? |
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| what type of art defaces historical paintings? |
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These concepts are highlighted in the manifesto of _____
-Says it is a state of mind
-Applies itself to everything but applies to nothing
-Like everything in life, Dada is useless.
-Dad is without pretension, as life should be.
-This idea that the image is more important than anything else |
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Hannah Hoch’s Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer Belly of the Weimar Republic 1919
this is the name of what |
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| what is the most famous piece of dada art? |
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| the fountain in 1917, urinal, pissing on modern art |
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| who created the most famous piece of dada art? |
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| macel duchamp but signed it R Mutt |
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| what movement is the 1st time social science is paired with a traditional art form, makes sense of one's dreams? |
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| “Return to Reason” is the film that is given challenge of making a film within 24 hours to be shown at a museum and a public showing the following day. who did this? |
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| Return to Reason's overall message is that the only time life makes sense is ______ |
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| who believed hollywood cinema was anemic, not actually breathing? |
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| a famous sculptor, wanted to collab with Chaplin |
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| Who is not associated with any major art movement because he's involved in ALL of them |
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| Ballet Mecanique has a nod to _____ and expermiental docu like films |
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| Leger attempts to use every element of film in ____ ____ |
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| what type of film tries to tell the day in the life in a single city? |
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| what is the first city symphony? |
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Who made “Rein que les Heures” aka “Nothing but Time” 1926?
He's brazilian film maker who rarely made films in his home country |
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| Cavalcanti's Nothing But Time tells story of day in the life of |
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| Paris France, uses special effects, shows young, middle and older love progression, also portrays hatred |
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| Who made the only city symphony to actually be produced by major motion picture studio FOX Europa? |
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| Walter Rutman - Berlin die Symphone |
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| Who making their city symphony influenced Vertov during his filming of A Man with A Movie Camera? |
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| Rutman making berlin die symphone |
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famous cinematographer
did all shots in Berlin - City Symphony
shot every single episode of I Love Lucy |
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| who was ostracized by all of his friends in the Bow House when offerd millions of doiche to make movies for Hitler? |
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| Regen is the most ____ of all the city symphonies |
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| the best shot in Iven's film Regen is the |
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| who owned a Film club called Film Familia |
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| Why did avant garde films end? |
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| mostly because of Great Depression and sound cinema |
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| what type of documentary is man with a movie camera? |
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