Exam 1 Flashcards
Eadward Muybridge
invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879, a machine that allowed him to project up to two hundred single images on a screen.
“The Horse in Motion”
The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve “automatic electro-photographs” depicting the movement of a horse.
The Lumiére Brothers
French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system
The Cinématographe
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A three-in-one device that could record, develop and project motion pictures
Zoopraxioscope
The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying moving images and is considered an important predecessor of the movie projector. It was conceived by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879.
“A Trip to the Moon”
A Trip to the Moon is widely regarded as a landmark film in the origins of cinema and showcased the fantasy elements of storytelling and special effects. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès
“The Great Train Robbery”
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company
Metropolis
This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers.
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
Kinetoscope
an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole.
George Méliès
Georges Méliès is famous for his many innovations in motion pictures. He was one of the first to film fictional narratives, and he is regarded as the inventor of special effects in movies.
Féerie
Féerie, sometimes translated as “fairy play”, was a French theatrical genre known for fantasy plots and spectacular visuals, including lavish scenery and mechanically worked stage effects.
Mise-en-scéne
The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
German expressionism
German Expressionism consisted of several related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.
Man with a Movie Camera
Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia.
Kino-Eye
Kino-Eye (Anglophonic: Cine-Eye) is a film technique developed in Soviet Russia by Dziga Vertov. It was also the name of the movement and group that was defined by this technique. “The “eye” of the camera – which Vertov refers to as a machine – saw life more accurately than the subjective eye of a human.”
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group
Kuleshov effect
The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing technique that explores the mental phenomenon of how viewers can extract more meaning from the interaction of two connected shots than from a single static image.
Chiaroscuro
a high-contrast lighting technique. Chiaroscuro uses a low key lighting setup, where a key light is used as the sole light source to achieve dark backgrounds with starkly lit subjects.
Deep focus
refers to a technique where all elements of an image—foreground, middleground, and background—are all in sharp focus. This technique helps directors imbue their shots with detail.
Citizen Kane
the first film noir, or at least the direct predecessor of noir, a genre that employs dark, moody atmosphere to augment the often violent or mysterious events taking place.
Orson Welles
American director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
Classic Hollywood cinema
character-centered cinema. Not only are narratives structured around the goals of individual characters, but basic elements of film style are also put at the service of character exposition and dramatic development.
Italian neorealism
national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed on location, frequently with non-professional actors.
Bicycle Thieves
It emphasized a documentary technique, the use of nonprofessional actors, a rejection of Hollywood conventions – shooting in natural locations as opposed to studio sets and de-emphasizing editing.
Vittorio De Sica
Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement ; Bicycle Thieves
Cahiers du Cinéma
French film magazine
Jean-Luc Godard
French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s ; Breathless
Breathless
orchestrated dialogue between two worlds—a world of stylized Hollywood romanticism and the everyday world of banal, uncinematic life.
French new wave
French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.
Auteur theory
the director is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay
Cinéma verité
realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment.
Bonnie and Clyde
American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The couple were known for their bank robberies
New Hollywood
movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence.
Hays Production Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.
Paramount case
By the terms of the verdict, the studios were made to sign consent decrees that would end the practice of block booking by requiring that all films be sold on an individual basis. They were also required to divest themselves of their own theater chains.
