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Cinema Test 2 Raddy
Cinema Test Review
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
11/11/2008

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Bela Lugosi
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Count Dracula, Typcasted in horror films, was to be in Frankenstein, but turned down role due to makeup malfunctions/differences
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Billy Wilder
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Directed Sunset Boulevard, film noir
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Boris Karloff
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Played Frankenstein's Monster
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Buster Keaton
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Silent film comedy, signed with MGM-downfall of career
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Carl Mayer
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Directed Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Jewish
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Claude Rains
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Title Role in Invisible Man
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Colin Clive
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Played Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein

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Ed Wood Jr.
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Low budget horror, science fiction, cowboy movies
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Erich Von Stroheim
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"The Man You Love to Hate", played German roles during war, villianous, Greed

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Fritz Lang
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Metropolis, M, film noir
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F. W. Murnau
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Nosferatu, The Last Laugh, Expressionism
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G. W. Pabst
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The Joyless Street,
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Gloria Swanson
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silent film movie star, popularity declined with the invention of talkies, Queen Kelly, starred in Sunset Boulevard mirroring her own life
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Hal Roach
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Comedy producer, worked with Harold Lloyd, "Lonesome Luke", "Our Gang"
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Hans Janowitz
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Writer, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, worked with F.W. Murnau
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Harold Lloyd

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Comedy actor, movies had alot of stunts (hanging from clock), "Lonesome Luke" to imitate Chaplin, then turned into "Glasses"
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Harry Langdon
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Comedian, The Strong Man, Keystone Studios (Mack Sennet)
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Hermann Warm
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Designed set for Cabinet of Calagari, created vision for madman's world
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Jack Pierce
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Universal monsters makeup, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Invisible Man
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James Whale
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Directed Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man,
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Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life
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produced by Mack Sennet, Woman tied to the train tracks, rescue by Barney, comedy
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Bride of Frankenstein
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Directed by James Whale, Starring Boris Karloff as the monster, was also censored for comparing to God

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Cat and Canary

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Haunted mansion, most distant relative will be heir to dying man's fortune
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Phantom of the Opera

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Starring Lon Chaney Sr., Directed by Rupert Julian, horror film
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Gods and Monsters
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A movie starring Ian Mckellen that depicts the last days of James Whale, title comes from the line in Bride of Frankenstein: "To a new world of gods and monsters"
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Frankenstein
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Director: James Whale, Makeup: Jack Pierce, Starring: Karloff as monster, Universal, Bela Lagosi was to star but turned down the role due to makeup
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Dracula
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Director: Tod Browning, Dracula: Bela Lugosi, Universal Horror, Bela Lugosi's speech pattern made him more eerie to audiences (could not speak english very well.)
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City Lights
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Charlie Chaplin, boxing comedy
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Die Nibelungen
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Fritz Lang, slays dragon
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Easy Street
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Chaplin, deals with social issues
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Free Wheelin'
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Little Rascals Short, cab drive
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Grand Illusion
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Stroheim, Anti nazi movement film
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Greed
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Stroheim, film with men in desert and gold
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Invisible Man

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James Whale, Universal Horror
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Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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Director: Robert Weine, Written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, German Expressionist

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The Strong Man
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Harry Langdon, searches for lover and rids town of crooks by accident
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City Noir
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dark portrayal of city life in the future
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Colorization
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coloring over black and white films, often used to appeal to younger audiences
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Expressionism
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distort reality for an emotional effect, Nosferatu, Caligari

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Kammerspielfilm
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German Expressionism, the Last Laugh, M
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Keystone
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Studio by Mack Sennet
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Keystone Cops
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 series of silent film comedies featuring a totally incompetent group of policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company
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Mise-en-scene
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setting the scene, everything set before the camera
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The Big Heat
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Fritz Lang, film noir, throws coffee on woman
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Stan Laurel
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comedy due Laurel and Hardy, skinny guy cartoons
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Oliver Hardy
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fat guy,  Laurel and Hardy
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Maltese Falcon
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first colorized film
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Leo McCarey
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Swiss Miss, fat and skinny duo

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Karl Fruend
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Filmed Dracula, the Mummy

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Nosferatu
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F W Marnua
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