Film People Flashcards
Muybridge (edweard)
He was a photographer who got famous for photographing a horse running. A major precursor for motion pictures
Muybridge experiments
He experimented with the movement of people and things in the same way he took pictures of the horse, a series of cameras lined up.
W.K.L Dickson
Created the Kinetograph and kinetoscope viewing box, and pulled film through the camera. Worked with Thomas Edison.
George Melies
A magician who used new techniques of camera tricks and special effects in movies. Made a big film called Trip to the moon.
Lumiere Brothers
Invented a projection system that helped make the cinema viable internationally, Designed the Cinematograph
Edwin Porter
Responsible for many popular films such as Life of an American Fireman. He was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company
Sergei Eisenstein
Made the film Potemkin, a Russian film to show an attempt at overthrowing the government.
Victor Sjostrom
Directed and played in the movie Terje Vigen, Swedish filmmaker. Very important silent film creaater, his poems did well at mise-ens scene and visual motifs.
four Major Comedians of the film era
Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Mabel Normand
Mack Sennet
He was a producer for the Keystone company which started many careers of the popular silent film comedians.
Hal Roach
He was a rival producer to Mack Sennet which started the career of Lloyd and some westerns.
D. W. Griffith
was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture,[2] he pioneered many aspects of film editing[3] and expanded the art of the narrative film. Griffith is known to modern audiences primarily for directing the film The Birth of a Nation
