-original remote camera crane

-designed and developed by Jean-Marie Lavalou & Alain Masseron

-received an Oscar

-actor, author, composer and singer

-known for Film Noir Style films

-Forerunner of the anti-heros

-Known for 'Undercurrent', 'The Locket' (1946), 'Where Danger Lives' (1950)

-America's Film Rating system

-rates a film's thematic and content suitablilty for certain audiences

-Voluntary, but most theaters won't play Non-Rated or X-Rated

-British film director and producer

-pioneered suspense and psychological thriller films

-Famous movies, you should know but Psyco, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, North by Northwest, etc.

-AustroHungarian Born filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist.

-only one of five people who have won an Acadamy Award as a P, D, and W for the same film (The Apartment, 1960).

-Also known for Sunset Boulevard (1950), and Some like it Hot (1959). 

-American Epic Western film

-based on the Johnson County War

-Cast included Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, and Willem Dafoe in his first role (HE WAS THE GREEN GOBLIN ZOMG). 

-1941 American Film

-directed by Hal Roach

-also a term for a film opened in LIMITED amount of theaters in LARGE cities (LA, NYC, Chicago...)

-usually only played once or twice a day

-practice ended in the early 70's. 

unit deal

(no, really, that's it.)

-Born Eleanora DERENkowsky, russian. (Don't know where 'Maya' comes from.)

-American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist

-pioneered this genre in the 40's and 50's

-also was a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer, and photographer.

-American Dancer, Actor, Singer, Film Director and Producer.

-Known for his lead roles in 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'An American in Paris'

-transformed the Hollywood musical film, overall awesome guy.

-made ballet a commercially acceptable theme for film

-films made mostly or completly outside the major film studio system

-considerably lower film budgets

-limited release

-screened at local, national, or international film festivals. 

-leading figure in teh visual art movement known as pop art

-renown and sometimes controversial artist

-known for painting, sculpture, film, and music

-gay man openly gay before the gay liberation movement. 

-owned his own studio (The Factory), which was a gathering spot for drag queens, playwrigths, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

-film director and film editor

-in 1967 won Academy Award for Film Editing of (The Heat of the Night)

-director several acclaimed films, such as Harold and Maude.

-widescreen process

-worked by projecting images from three sync'd 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved 146 degree arc of a screen.

-introduced in the 50's

-was the film industry's reaction to competition from television.

-Jewish American lyricist and a producer

-Known for Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz, man!

-American director, producer, writer, and actor

-co-founded the Actor's Studio in 1947 with Lee Strasberg

-introduced Method Acting

-acted in a few films, most notably (City for Conquest, 1940)

-known as 'stero' sound

-illusion using two or more audio channels to creat audible depth and perspective to a film.

- George Lucas pioneered the fuck out of this with Star Wars.

-No seriously, Star Wars changed sound in movie theaters so much that theaters had to start getting new Dolby and THX approved speakers installed in their theaters just to play Episode IV. Thats why you have that really loud THX Logo thingy at the beginging of some movies. The more you know!

-used by actors to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters, so as to develop lifelike performances

-pioneered by Constantin Stanislavski

-actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals.

-American Non-Narative Filmmaker

-inspired by music, poetry, visual phenomena

-one of hte most important figures in 20th cnetury experimental films

-themes of birth, mortality, SEX, and innocene in his movies. 

-documentary genre that originated between 58-62

-originated in Qubec, Canada. Eh.

-directly captured reality and represented it truthfully

-questioned the relationship of reality with cinema.

-film genre targeting teenagers and young adults

-usually tackled coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation.

-American Entertainer

-known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities

-dancer and singer

-performances on Broadway and Las Vegas

-famous recording artist, television and film star.

-member of Sinatra's Rat Pack

-large screen

-allowed people to park and watch from their cars

-usually had consession stands

-Come on, people you should know this. Man I wish they still had these.

-film production company formed in 1956 by James H Nicholson and Samuel Z Arkoff

-dedicated to releasing independently produced, low-budget lower packaged halves of double features 

-primarily targeted teenagers. 

-Italian American animation director

-worked at Walt Disney

-1941 short 'Lend a Paw' won Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

-1953 Biblical epic film

-first film released in widescreen process CinemaScope

-directed by Henry Koster

-stars Richard Burton

-about a Roman military tribune who comands the unit that crucifies Jesus.

-director and producer of documentaries

-usually detailed political or social events between the 60's and 80's

-born in Scranton, PA the city where 'The Office' takes place.

-made a film about Kennedy's Assassination called (Rush to Judgement, 1966).

-why these are on the same flash card, idk. 

-2000 American experimental film

-directed by Mike Figgis

-four continuous 90-minute shots filmed simultaneously by four camermen; the screen is divided into quarters. 

diologue was largely improvised.

-stylish Hollywood Crime Dramas

-usually had cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

-low key black and white visual style that has roots in German. 

-expressionist cinematography

-hardboiled school of crime fiction

-German Hollywood film director

-specialized in science fiction movies

-director of (The Big Cage, 1932), (Secret of the Blue Room, 1933), etc.

-very famous composer, mostly worked with Speilberg and worked on all but two of his films

-ET, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Home Alone, Harry Potter 1-3.

-wrote some of the most recognized scores in film history.

-if you don't know who John Williams is, make like a lemming. If you don't know who that is, google it.

-film that juxtaposes fictional scenes with footage taken from disparate sources such as news reels.

-American Documentary filmmaker known as the pioneer of cinema verite, or Direct Cinema. 

-known fo the film (Primary, 1960).

-English American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

-known for (White Woman, 1933) and (The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934) and (Les Mis, 1935) and (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935).

-membership organization for professional Actors, theater directors and playwrights

-Founded by Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford

-Currently run by Al Pacino

-based on method acting and the innovations of Constantin Stanislavski

-actors work together to develop their skills in a private enviorment

-Black Arts Movement or BAM

-founded in Harlem by Amiri Baraka

American film director and choreographer

-celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with Gene Kelly.

-film archive and theater

-devoted to the preservation and exhibition of experiemental films

-only non-profit organization of its kind in NYC

-700 public screenings yearly

-American Actor and director

-father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn

-In 1954 won the Theare World Award for his performance in the play The Girl

-TV director for Star Trek

-anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 53-67

-marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection

Lew Wasserman

-American Talent Agent and studi exec

-manager of MCA 

-type of film that is promoted by exploiting often lurid subject matter.

-exploited big stars, special effects, sex, violence, romance EC.

-relies heavily on sensationalist advertising

-explotation films were widely known as low-quality

-acttract critical attention and cult followings

-American Actor, SW, and Filmmaker

-known for (Rosemary's Baby, 1968) and (The Dirty Dozen, 1967).

-pioneer of American independent films 

-provide 3-D effect

-images are made of two color layers superimposed over each other but slightly off to see depth

-American D, SW, and P.

-Oscar-nominated 'The Stunt Man"

-directed 'Freebie and the Bean' which was fucking awesome and starred Alan Arkin, the grandpa from Little Miss Sunshine

-American Documentary Filmmaker

-pioneered Direct Cinema/Cinema Cerite

Cross Plugging

-an annoucment of a networks other programs or an advertiser's other products, made during a program or advertisment. 

-spoken by announcers or appear in the form of graphics in the corner of the screen during a show or sit-com

-trailer for a iflm being shown in the theater.

-Italian Anthology film by Roberto Rossellini

-Magnani was awarded the Silver Ribbon in 11949 for best actress in this film

-Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer

-worked for WB, UPA, and on the Peanuts Series

-was the voice of Snoopy and Woodstock.

-american filmmaker and SW

-wrote (The Wild Bunch, 1969)

-nicknamed 'Bloody Sam' for his over use and pioneering violence and action in films. 

-films generally deal with confict between values and ideals and corruption of violence in human society.

-characters are often loners or losers who long to be honorable, but are forced to comprimise to survive. 

-the use of smell in theaters to make the movie more 'real'. 

-bad reviews and a complete flop, probably because it's fucking gross.

injected 30 different smells into the back of movie theater seats triggered by the films soundtrack.

-fucking GROSS.

Sent sents through the theater's air conditioner.

-I can hear the air conditioning turning on OH GOD HERE IT COMES FUCKING GROSS.

-acts liek a telescope in enlarging a small area

-allows the cameraman to film urban shots from a safe distance

-tended to flatter the shot's space and produce soft, blurry contours

-Amplifying B-Movie material into big budget films. 

-Example: James Bond in Goldfinger.