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- transition between two scenes
- used to show a passage of time
- most commonly used during the 30's and 40's
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- transition from one scene to another in which one scene pushes the previous one off the screen
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- often a shaky, bumpy shot that is taken with an umnounted portable camera held by a cameraman
- can provide a realistic or documentary effect
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- when a stationary camera starts to move
- done on a mobile platform that support the camera, cameraman, and assistant camera man
- generally pushed by a grip
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- done with a large camera trolley with a long projected arm or boom at theend of which is a platform
- the platform holds the camera and has seats for the camera operator, camera assistant, and sometimes the director.
- can pass over obstacles and move aroun props, follow an actor upstairs or move fform ground level to great heights for an earial view of a scene
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- the camera movement that moves with the actor horizontally
- the term comes from panorama
- can give the audience a wider more panoramic view
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- used when the director wants wants the audience to experience teh scene through the actors eyes
- also called subjective camera
- often used to build suspense in action, horror or mystery films
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- any shot taken form a moving vehicle
- it is used when the reqired camea is movement is too fast for a dolly
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- when the camera appers to move away form the subject showing more area
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- when the camera moves up or down along a vertical axis from a fixed position or a tripod
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- when a still or moving picture is projected onto the rear of a transluscent screen in front of which live action is filmed
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Eadward Muybridge's Galloping Horse |
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George Easteman (Kodak) invents Roll Film
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Fred Ott's Sneeze (first film on record at the Library of Congress)
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First projected fim to paying audiences (Lumiere Bros. Cinematographe, Paris, France) |
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George Melies ( A Trip to the Moon) |
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Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" |
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Billy Bitzer becomes camereman for D.W. Griffith |
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Carl Laemmle gave actors first screen credits |
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"Birth of A Nation" (cost $110,000- grossed $10 M) |
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early film history A Trip To The Moon |
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this music video was a tribute to what 1902 film? |
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early film history zoetrope |
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- invented by Willima Horner in 1834
- a drum like disc
- picture drum/ wheel of life
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early film history Fred Ott's Sneeze |
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early film history
Black Maria |
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where Edison's short fims where produced built in orange, new jersey, in 1893 |
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early fim history cinetograph |
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camera developed by the Lumiere Bro. that could take and project a picture
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early fim history stage plays |
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George Melies films resembled_______and there was no fim editing |
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early fim history The Great Train Robbery |
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Edison's cameraman Edwin S. Porter helped evolve actual fim editing with ________ (lasted for 12 min) |
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early fim history Eadward Muybridge |
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photographer who set up form 12-30 cameras a foot apart to study the movement of people and animals
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early fim history Thomas Edison |
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He was the first to use 35 mm celluloid fim with 4 perforations on the dge of each frame, the standard format used today |
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early film history kinetoscope |
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- a projector that allows one to watch an endless loop of film trough a peep hole
- built by Thomas Edison with his assistant William Dickson in 1891
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early film history sinetogragh |
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- a combination movie camera and projector
- built by the Lumiere Bro. in 1895
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early film history December 28, 1895 |
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in a Paris cafe the 1st public motion picture show took place, 33 curious people paid a franc each |
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early film history George Mileas |
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in 1896, he founded the first film production co. |
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the film industry moves west
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established producer's banded together to protect their wealth |
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the film industry moves west
cheap labor |
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L.A. proved a magnet for film makers because of____ |
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the film industry moves west
The Squaw Man
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| Hollywood's first feature-lengh production was Cecile B. DeMille's the _____ |
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- short films of everyday life with no storylines
- documentations
- term first used by the Lumier Bros. while intro their first films in 1895 in Paris
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- Motion Picture Patents Co. created in 1909
- included The Edison Co, twelve of it's US rivals, and the Melies/ Pathe Co
- They though to control the manufacture and rental of all film equipment, as well as the production, distribution, and exhibition of all films.
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- most of the studio heads were first generation Jewish immagrants friom Eastern Europe with little education
- named after the Barbarian Conquerors of the Indian Empire.
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most popular subjects in penny arcades was: |
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In the early 1900's, motion pictures were shown in_____. |
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The film that took motion pictures out of the slot machine era. |
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Director of "The Great Train Robbery" |
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The natural audience for the silent moving pictures were _____. Because they needed no English to enjoy moving pictures. |
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Considered "father of film" |
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The Ku Klux Klan (K.K.K.) |
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"The Birth of A Nation" caused a racist problem. Soon after it's release the ________ was reborn.
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The film that started the fortunes of Louis B. Mayer and all the other (moguls) was ______. |
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What was Buster Keaton's most spectacular film? |
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Which comedian used his leading lady only as a comic foil? |
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- a film that appeals more to the viewer's emotion's rather than their intellect.
- The term comes form theater plays in which good overcomes evil and usually has a happy ending.
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a mixture of various live acts: singing, dancing, comedy and acrobats. |
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- A combination of comedy derived from a circuus, vauderville, and burlesque.
- This aggressive and violent comedy was inroduced to films by Mark Sennett.
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Mack Sennett started Keystone |
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Charlie Chaplin signed with Keystone |
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Charlie Chaplin has the most impact on the film world of any film star |
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Buster Keaton becomes as important as any director working in Hollywood |
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Harold Lloyd is the most popular comic film star |
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Mack Sennett: "I stole my ideas (for comedy) from the ______Co.
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D.W. Griffith assigned Mack Sennett to ___ comedies. |
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Sennett left Griffith to set up his own independent co. named____. |
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The one great comic before Chaplin was the Frenchman________. |
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London 1921, Chaplin had become the most _______ in the world. |
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Chaplin's own LOndon childhood, when he was taken form his mother and put n an orpahnage, was the inspiration for the film____. |
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Harold Lloyd began his career as a _______ imitator. |
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H. Lloyd became teh one comic who seriously rivaled Chaplin at the________. |
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His (H. Lloyd) character of Lonesome Luke resembled _____ too closely for Lloyd to stay with it for long. |
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Lloyd found his mark not only by looking funny but by looking______. |
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Buster Keaton: "I learned from the _____ that I was the type of comedian that if I laugh at what I did, teh audience didn't."
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(Frank Capra) "He (Keaton) never changed ___ no matter how life treated him.
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"By the time I (Keaton) got up to around 7 and 8 yrs old, we were called the ___________ in the history of the stage." |
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Keaton was not only a great comic, but a great comedy ______.
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What kind of sign did Buster Keaton put in the ground after his house was destroyed?
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"The Freshman" on the train |
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Where did Harold Lloyd first meet his girlfriend? |
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"The Freshman" Clown (Spender?) |
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Upon arriving at college Speedy instantly became known as the class______. |
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"The Freshman" dog (pitbull) |
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At Speedy's first football practice he has an encounter with which animal? |
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"The Freshman" tackling dummy |
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While trying out or the football team, Speedy finds them using him as a ______. |
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The coach wants to cut Speedy but one of the players (Chet) suggest teh coasch let him stay on as a________.
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"The Freshman" he was the only substitute left |
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What was the reason that Speedy got into the game? |
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In one scene Speedy crosses the goal line not with a ball but a __. |
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Its clear Speedy has scored a touchdown when his __ is covered with white chalk. |
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"The Freshman" he gets wet from the shower |
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What happens to Speedy while he is reading the note from his girlfriend? |
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