cinema history Flashcards
two triangle grey images
camera obscuras [chamber and small hole]
what was the kinetoscope
edison’s motion picture exhibition device, it was big and could not be brought around
who did horseman on black and white and what was the purpose
it’s the first movie ever made by eadweard muybridge, and it consisted of six cards/paragraphs, put back to back creating motion
first US copyright for an identifiable motion picture?
fred ott’s sneeze (1894)
first canadian theatre dedicated to showing movies where was it?
ouimetoscope on sainte-catherine
who invented the first portable camera?
lumiere
what 3 major nations involved in from production during the silent era?
us, russia, germany
Name of Chaplin’s main character? What did he represent?
the tramp, he represented a gentleman despite his social status who was childlike
What did Chaplin reject at first?
he refused to do sound films in the 1930s
What happened in 1929 in relation to the cinema industry?
the first academy awards were announced
Who was Eisenstein and what did he contribute to cinema history?
a director who did russian montage
first full length epic film
the birth of a nation dw griffith
characteristics of silent film
overacting, makeup, music, comic situation, intertitles, movement, musical accompaniment, transition between images
what is constructivism (1915-1935)
- shifted its emphasis toward designing functional constructions which could benefit the emerging soviet state
• ventured into the production of items beneficial to the new Russia, the
materials used were appropriate to the product and process whether ceramics, clothing, posters or architecture
• interested in an immediate application to create a new civilization inthe Soviet Union, with art becoming the motor of the propaganda
machine
[beat the white with the red wedge]
some characteristics of continuity editing
consistency: eyeline match, match on action, establishing shot, POV shot, axis of action, parallel editing, diegetic or undiegetic sound
• What was the studio system and how did it control the industry?
term used to describe Hollywood production during its Golden Age, also called the Classical Era, from 1930 to 1949. This is the era when Hollywood dominated the world’s film industry. The First World War destroyed European competition; with no outside competitors and the ‘block booking’ practices and ‘vertical integration’ of the major American studios, the industry flourished at home.
who were the big players
fox film coorperation, loew’s incorporated, metro goldwyn mayer, paramount pictures, RKO pictures, universal pictures, columbia pictures
how was united artists different
it allowed artists to control their own interests
classic hollywood style and characteristics
invisible style and manner. acting, sound, characters are active and goal oriented
themes from modern times (1936)
- man vs machine
- rich vs poor [power]
- hope and the good life
- unemployment and crime
What real-life occurrence does Singin’ in the
Rain (1952) pay homage to?
…
what was war of the worlds (1938)
radio broadcast by orson welles as an adaption of hg well’s novel
characteristics of expressionism
they wanted emotion and meaning rather than reality
who were part of the der blaue reiter group
a group of Expressionist artists led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz
Marc. One of the primary goals of the group was to use art to express
spirituality
german expressionism
Expressionism was a cross-cultural movement encompassing music,
dance, painting, sculpture,, architecture, design, literature, theater and film and lasted roughly between 1906 + 1924/
• In essence it was a philosophical and artistic critique of bourgeois rationalism; an attempt to express the distortions, alienation, fragmentation and dislocation, the ‘irrationality’ of modern life
• Expressionism represents subjective experience: states of mind, feelings, ideas, perceptions, dreams and visions: often paranoid states.
Notable directors german expressionism
fritz lang, robert wiene, paul wegener
what came before film noir
it was born from crime films, and the era before was the golden age
mise en scene of film noir
Bars or lines in front or behind character Tight framing
Canted shots
Odd angles
Slow tracking shots Backward tracking shots
historical context of film noir
it came from crime films, from late 40s to 50s
archetypes of film noir
dark setting gloomy foggy, and darkness of humanity
motifs of film noir
tense, despair, paranoisa
motifs themes and cinematography of spellbound by alfred hitchcock (1945)
love gender, crime psychological thriller, black and white
what was so innovative about citizen kane
the camera techniques were new, broken narrative, use of editing, deep focus for cinematography, sound, lighting, overlapping dialogue
