cinema Flashcards
Eadweard Muybridge
zoopraxiscope (projected moving images), precursor the movie projector
thomas edison
Kinetoscope (early motion picture exhibition device where u look thru a peephole)
Nickelodeon
movie that is a nickel
Birth of a Nation
first american blockbuster (great commercial success)
d. w. griffith
director of BOAN
woodrow wilson
first president to show movie in the white house (BoaN) and he introduced segregation into the white house
william trotter
white black activists, highly publicly meets with wilson and protests segregation and tries to pull screenings of BoaN
birth of a race
response to BoaN meant to discredit the stereotypes in the movie
Birth of a Movement
modern documentary that documents william trotter and the dialogue that was started by BoaN
Georges Méliès
french innovator in cinema (special effects, time lapse, story boards) directed A Trip to the Moon
blockbuster mentality
the economic pressure on media conglomerates to copy past movie successes