Unit Test: Film Origin to 1920

Styles of film: realism, classicism, formalism
Film Treatment (how to write one) & film pitch
Early film invention: Magic Lantern Daguerreotype Celluloid Kinetoscope Mutoscope
Praxinoscope
Edweard Muybridge, photography, & the Zoopraxinoscope
The Lumiere Brothers & their films (The Sprinkler Sprinkled, Arrival of a Train, etc.)
Pathe Frere Manufacturing Company (Charles Pathe)
Pathe Films: Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp; Onesime the Clock Maker; Slippery Jim; The Policeman's Little Run
Thomas Edison and the Edison Manufacturing Company: various films (Sandow the Strongman, Serpentine Dances, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz (1910), Uncle Josh films, Life of an American Fireman, etc.
The Black Maria
Hepworth Manufacturing Company (Cecil B. Hepworth)
Hepworth's films:Rescued by Rover ; How It Feels to be Run Over;
Explosion of a Motor Car; That Fatal Sneeze; Alice in Wonderland
George Melies & A Trip to the Moon
Persistence of Vision
Etinnene-Jules Marey
George Eastman
Edwin S. Porter & his films: The Great Train Robbery ; Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Actualities & Blue Movies
D.W. Griffith and his contribution to film (also his Intolerance, Way Down East, and Birth of a Nation)
Billy Bitzer
Lillian Gish
Early film comedy and comedians (particularly The Keystone Kops, Mack Sennet, etc.)
Charlie Chaplin (various films)
Buster Keaton (One Week, The General, various films)
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle & his scandal (Hays Code chapter)
Hollywood (the origin and development of)
Eisenstein & Montage & Battleship Potemkin (Odessa Step sequence)
Types of Shots (close up, medium shot, full shot, deep focus shot, long shot, extreme close up and long shots, panning, dolly/tracking shot, etc.)
Types of Angles (high, low, bird's eye, oblique, etc.)
Early independent film studios/the Hollywood Studio System
Early major film studios (1920-1930)
Sid Grauman
MPPC, MPPDA & AMPAS
The Hays Code
German Expressionism
F. W. Murnau & Nosferatu
Robert Weine & The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Birt Acres
R.W. Paul
Alice Guy-Blache
Mack Sennett
Oscar Micheaux
Other important film stars: Douglas Fairbanks sr., Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Janet Gaynor, Clara Bow, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Conrad Viedt, etc.
Auteur, Story, Plot, Order, Narration, Narrative Form
Diegesis
Scene, Sequence, Frequency, Ellipsis
Motif
Space, Viewing Time, Duration
Film Reviews and how to write them