Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Script & Upcoming Test

Please work on your script and prepare for the test on Thursday.

Joseph P. Maxfield
The Vitaphone
Don Juan
The Jazz Singer
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson
Western Electric (contributions to film)
RKO
Positive and negative elements of sound in film
Camera work and style of the 1930's in filming (editing, narratology, acting, etc.)
Laurel & Hardy
The Music Box (1931)
Hal Roach & the Little Rascals
Hell's Angels (1930)
Jean Harlow
Anna Christie (1930)
Greta Garbo
Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932)
Johnny Weissmuller
Morocco (1930)
Marlene Dietrich
Grand Hotel (1932)
Joan Crawford & John Barrymore
King Kong (1933)
Robert Armstrong & Fay Wray
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Clark Gable & Charles Laughton
Captain Blood (1935)
Errol Flynn & Basil Rathbone
Universal Horror Films
Dracula (1931)
Freaks (1932)
Tod Browning
The White Zombie (1932)
Bela Lugosi
Frankenstein (1931) 
The Bride of Frankenstein (1932)
The Mummy (1932)
Boris Karloff
The Invisible Man (1933)
Claude Rains
Screwball Comedy
The Marx Brothers
Animal Crackers (1930) Duck Soup (1934) A Night At the Opera (cabin scene) (1935) A Day at the Races (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant
The Thin Man (1934) with Myrna Loy & William Powell
Frank Capra
It Happened One Night (1934) Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Gary Cooper
Lost Horizon (1937)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Jimmy Stewart
Gangster Films
The Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface (1932)
Westerns
Cimarron (1930)
Stagecoach (1939) John Wayne (John Ford directing)
War Films
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Musicals
The Gay Divorcee (1934) Top Hat (1935) Swing Time (1936)
Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire
42 Street (1933)
Walt Disney
Flowers and Trees (1932) The Three Little Pigs (1933); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Popeye the Sailor (1933)
2-strip and 3-strip Technicolor
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

HOMEWORK: Script is due Thursday. There is a test on the 1930's Film Unit.

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