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| Human's eye ability to see flipbook. |
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| Wheel of images, developed by Joseph Plateau. (needs a mirror) |
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| Series of glass slides shown with a projector. (limited number of slides) |
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| invented clear, permanent copper plates used for projection. |
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| a serial photographer that took many photos at once to simulate film, he combined the magic lantern with a stroboscopic toy. |
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| invented rifle camera which took 12 shots in rapid succession using 1 camera. |
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| Who developed kinetograph ( big black metal box used to film for kinetoscopes? |
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| Who developed kinetescope (peep-hole viwer? |
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| Studio that Edison used to create film (retractable ceiling, rotation) |
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| film camera that serves as a projector. |
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| December 28, 1895 - first public exhibition of film to paying audience. |
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| A magician-turned-director that used many sppecial effects (Trip to the Moon) |
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| created Great Train Robbery (which included hand tinting for color) |
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• Clear cut good/bad
• Excessive emotion
• Last minute rescue
• Moral lesson
• Domestic life
• Female protagonist |
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Negative attitude toward Asians in cinema.
The Cheat |
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| Classical Hollywood Cinema: |
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• A-B plot
• few protagonists
• linear narrative
• suspense
• resolution |
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• MPCC frowned on Star Promotion
• Motion pictures story magazine introduced stars |
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• Made camera, projectors, and film stock.
• largest film company of the time.
• Created vertical integration ( one company controls all branches of film making: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition)
• Created horizontal integration (one company buys many smaller specialized ocmpanies) |
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• Alice Guy-Blache: first female director and head of production (created Making and American Citizen: immigrant man beating wife)
• Louis Feuillafe: famous for creating one long story broken into short separate screenings (Les Vampires) |
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| Nickelodeon Boom (1905-1907): |
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• first permanent movie theatre
• one room theatre with benches
• sound was played to accompany silent film
• geared towards the working class
• Amuse-U (Atlantas first Nickelodeon) |
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• designed to make the average person feel like royalty
• seated 2500-6000
• first palace: The Strand
• Atlanta's surviving Palace: The Fox |
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| Motion Picture Patents Company |
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• 1897- Edison sues for patent infringement on film
• 1908- Edison created Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)
• 1907- mainstream movie making moved from NJ to Hollywood because of weather, topography, real estate |
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• Vaudevill comedian
• 1914: Keystone Comedies
• 1915: Essanay
• 1916: Mutual Corporation
• 1919: United Artists |
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• response to Birth of a Nation
• segregated theatres
• 8 independent theatres
• black cast for black audiences
• Oscar Micheaux: (within our gates, the homesteader) |
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| (chambre Drama: few characters, crisis, slow acting, few settings, character psychology, unhappy endings) |
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Reaction against physical realism, representative of inner emotion, focus on composition, unnatural acting, chiaroscuro lighting (light/dark contrast)
I. Nosferatu
II. The cabinet of dr. calgari |
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• Female dancer
• Mountain Movies
• Triumph of the Will: German propaganda affirming the Nazis and Hitler |
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• All about the editing
• Post revolution
• Kuleshow: directer that experimented with spatial and temporal elements and their continuity between shots. (kuleshov effect: bowl of soup) |
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• Dixon: first to put sound on film
• Sound on film: Dee DeForest
• Sound on disc: Western Electric (partnered with WB)
• Don Juan: first film with full score
• The Jazz Singer: First sound film
• Lights of New York: First 100% talkie
• Big five agreement: none will adopt sound until method is universally agreed upon |
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| Mise-en-scène (to place in a scene) |
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• setting
• lighting
• costumes
• props
• make-up
• acting style |
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