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| What were the technologies out of which film emerged? What was the first movie camera? What was the first non-projected movie camera? When and where was the first film screened? |
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| flipbook, thaumatrope, zoetrope;; cinematographe (lumiere brothers) kinetescope (edison);; May 1893, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |
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| Who were the principal figures leading to the invention of film and what were their various contributions? What myths have arisen about these early figures? |
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| Etienne-Jules Morey (chronophotography) Joseph Nicephore Niepae (flipbook, thaumatrope, zoetrope) Eadweard Muybridge (motion studies, horse) Lumiere Brothers (Cinematographe) |
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| Who were the Lumière Brothers and who was Georges Méliès? How did their films differ? What interested them as filmmakers? What was the chief innovation of each? |
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| Lumiere (actualities and travel films) Melies (trick and feeries) |
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| What did Edison focus on as a filmmaker? What was the name of his studio? |
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| work, play, creativity, performers,commercial amusement, nostalgia ;;black maria |
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| What role does spectacle have in the cinema? Why is it important? How does spectacle affect spectator interest in the cinema? What is its relation to narrative? |
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| a key element of the structure of early film, although it may function as a defining element particularly in the earliest period;; curiosity-arousing display and means of representation which constituted the initial fascination of cinema;; |
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| camera always stay son imaginary line |
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| over the shoulder shot of conversations |
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| skips middle of an action (enter elevator, cut, leave elevator) |
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| cut from two things happening simultaneously |
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| every time there's a cut, must be justification |
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| initial shot that gives sense of setting |
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| happens when cinema stops directly addressing the audience, as opposed to cinema of attractions (tie in that narrative effected this/major motion pictures) |
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| Why was Cabiria important for Griffith and for the history of cinema? |
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| created the epic movie, moving camera, |
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| What innovations occur in Trip to the Moon |
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| Special effects and annimation |
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| What innovations occur in The Great Train Robbery |
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| Cross-cutting, narrative, more use of color |
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| The Kiss, Serpentine Dances, Sandow, Glenroy Brothers, Cock Fight, The Barber Shop, Feeding the Doves, Seminary Girls |
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| Train Arriving at the Station, Baby's Meal, Demolition of a Wall, Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, the Sprinkler Sprinkled |
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| Living Playing Cards, Eclipse, Voyage to the Moon |
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| Life of an American Fireman, Great Train Robbery |
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| what does Musser see dramatically changing film content |
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| Who is generally not seen in Edison films, according to Musser (At the Beginning) |
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| Who is Edwin S. Porter and what is his importance int he history of early cinema? |
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