Friday, March 13, 2009

Review for Unit Exam: Origin to 1930

Styles of film: realism, classicism, formalism
Early film invention: Magic Lantern Daguerreotype Celluloid Kinetoscope Mutoscope
Praxinoscope
Edweard Muybridge
The Lumiere Brothers
Pathe Frere Manufacturing Company
Thomas Edison and the Edison Manufacturing Company
The Black Maria
Hepworth Manufacturing Company
George Melies
Persistence of Vision
Etinnene-Jules Marey
George Eastman
Edwin S. Porter
Hepworth's films:Rescued by Rover ; How It Feels to be Run Over;
Explosion of a Motor Car ;The Great Sneeze
Actualities & Blue Movies
Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp
Edwin S. Porter's films: The Great Train Robbery ; Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Melies' A Trip to the Moon
D.W. Griffith and his contribution to film (also his Intolerance, Way Down East, and Birth of a Nation)
Lillian Gish
Early film comedy and comedians
Charlie Chaplin (The Rink) and comic devices
Buster Keaton (The Paleface)
Other important film stars: Douglas Fairbanks sr., Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Janet Gaynor, Clara Bow, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle & his scandal (Hays Code chapter)
Hollywood (the origin and development of)
The Academy Awards
German Expressionism
Types of Shots
Types of Angles
F.W. Murnau & “Nosferatu”
Conrad Viedt & the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Fritz Lang & Metropolis
Sergei Eisenstein & Battleship Potemkin
Early independent film studios/the Hollywood Studio System
Early major film studios (1920-1930)
DECLAR
Sid Grauman
MPPDA & AMPAS
Early sound in film & The Jazz Singer
The Hays Code

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