Your unit test will cover the following material. All material mentioned was either referenced and discussed below in the blog (check and review blog entries), the handouts from Turning Points in Film, or from Tim Dirks website (Film History). Please refer to your notes and study. This test covers a lot, please study. Please. No. Really. Study. Take & review notes. and Study.
- Styles of film: realism, classicism, formalism
- Early film invention: Magic Lantern, Daguerreotype, Celluloid, Kinetoscope, Mutoscope, Praxinoscope, Thaumatrope, etc.
- 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
- Augustin Le Prince
- W.K.L. Dickson
- 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
- 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 Sennett, Mabel Normand, Harold Lloyd, etc.)
- Slapstick comedy & comedic technique
- Charlie Chaplin (various films; we watched the Rink in class, but others were mentioned)
- Buster Keaton
- Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle & his scandal (Hays Code chapter)
- Hollywood (the origin and development of)
- Eisenstein & Montage & Battleship Potemkin (Odessa Step sequence)
- Nanook of the North
- 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.)
- Advice about Camera shots and editing
- 180 degree rule & various editing techniques
- Early independent film studios/the Hollywood Studio System
- Early major film studios (1920-1930)
- Blockbooking
- Sid Grauman
- MPPC, MPPDA & AMPAS
- The Hays Code
- German Expressionism & its influence
- F. W. Murnau & Nosferatu
- Robert Weine & The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Birt Acres
- R.W. Paul
- Alice Guy-Blache
- Mack Sennett
- Oscar Micheaux
- Minorities in film
- Conrad Viedt
- Lon Chaney, Man of a Thousand Faces
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Lois Weber
- George Lucas & Star Wars (1977)
- Characteristics of Blockbusters
- Blaxploitation
- Film vocabulary:
- Auteur, Story, Plot, Order, Narration, Narrative Form
- Narratology
- Diegesis
- Scene, Sequence, Frequency, Ellipsis
- Motif
- Space, Viewing Time, Duration
HOMEWORK: Please study for your exam, please study for your exam, please study for your exam.
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