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Who is the director of The Great Train Robbery? and the year?

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Edwin S. Porter
1903
(the first movie to tell a story)

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Who directed and starred in the film City Lights?

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Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cheryl
Year: 1931

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Who directed it happened one night?

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Frank Capra
Starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Year: 1934

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Who directed Singing in the Rain?

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Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly and Debby Reynolds
Year: 1952

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Who directed What’s up Doc?

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Peter Bogdonavich
Starring: Barbara Streisand, Ryan O’neal & Madeline Kahn
Year: 1972

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Who directed Psycho?

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Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles & John Gavin
Year: 1960

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Who directed The Searchers?

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John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Vera Miles & Jeffrey Hunter
Year: 1956

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Who directed Paths of Glory?

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Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker & Adolphe Menjou
Year: 1957

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Who directed Testament?

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Lynn Littman
Starring: Jane Alexander & William Devane
Year: 1983

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Who directed Life is Beautiful?

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Roberto Benigini
Starring: Roberto Benigini & Nicoletta Braschi
Year: 1997

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Who directed Citizen Kane?

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Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore & Everett Sloane
Year: 1941

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Who directed The Night of The Hunter?

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Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters & Lillian Gish

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When Did sound come in to movies?

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1927

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The reasons film industry moved out west?

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More sunlight, better weather, and good old-fashioned patent violation.

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The purpose of motion picture cameras

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1890, Thomas Edison had the idea of creating a motion picture camera when he developed the idea of the moving image he did it with the intent that the moving image would do nothing more than record history.

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The Edweard Muybridge experiment

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1887, the railroad tycoon Leland Stanford was convinced that a horse ina galloping stride lifts all 4 hooves off the ground. The horse was too fast for the human eye to catch something like that. So, he got a friend of his Edweard Muybridge, whom was a photographer got 12 cameras to capture the horse and the horse tripped over the wire capturing that the horse did get all 4 hooves off the ground. The 12 photographs told us that is the foundation of motion pictures.

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The 3 filmmakers who changed motion pictures for the better

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Charlie Chaplin
Mack Sennett
D.W. Griffith

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Boom Shot

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a vertical camera movement achieved through the use of a crane or jib.

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Closeup

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a photograph or movie shot taken of a subject or object at close range intended to show greater detail to the viewer.

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Cut shot

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transitions between camera angles, such a wide establishing shot and a medium shot.

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Dissolve shot

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fades away into another shot

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Deep Focus

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a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image, or how much of it appears sharp and clear

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Dolly Shot

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the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.

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Fade

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a subtype of dissolve transition that gradually moves to or from an image to or from black.

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Montage

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a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.

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Pan shot

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panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position.

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Wipe

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a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape

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Director’s cut

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an edited version of a film that is supposed to represent the director’s own approved edit in contrast to the theatrical release.

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