History of Film Final Flashcards
Who is the director of The Great Train Robbery? and the year?
Edwin S. Porter
1903
(the first movie to tell a story)
Who directed and starred in the film City Lights?
Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cheryl
Year: 1931
Who directed it happened one night?
Frank Capra
Starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Year: 1934
Who directed Singing in the Rain?
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly and Debby Reynolds
Year: 1952
Who directed What’s up Doc?
Peter Bogdonavich
Starring: Barbara Streisand, Ryan O’neal & Madeline Kahn
Year: 1972
Who directed Psycho?
Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles & John Gavin
Year: 1960
Who directed The Searchers?
John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Vera Miles & Jeffrey Hunter
Year: 1956
Who directed Paths of Glory?
Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker & Adolphe Menjou
Year: 1957
Who directed Testament?
Lynn Littman
Starring: Jane Alexander & William Devane
Year: 1983
Who directed Life is Beautiful?
Roberto Benigini
Starring: Roberto Benigini & Nicoletta Braschi
Year: 1997
Who directed Citizen Kane?
Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore & Everett Sloane
Year: 1941
Who directed The Night of The Hunter?
Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters & Lillian Gish
When Did sound come in to movies?
1927
The reasons film industry moved out west?
More sunlight, better weather, and good old-fashioned patent violation.
The purpose of motion picture cameras
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.
The Edweard Muybridge experiment
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.
The 3 filmmakers who changed motion pictures for the better
Charlie Chaplin
Mack Sennett
D.W. Griffith
Boom Shot
a vertical camera movement achieved through the use of a crane or jib.
Closeup
a photograph or movie shot taken of a subject or object at close range intended to show greater detail to the viewer.
Cut shot
transitions between camera angles, such a wide establishing shot and a medium shot.
Dissolve shot
fades away into another shot
Deep Focus
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
Dolly Shot
the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.
Fade
a subtype of dissolve transition that gradually moves to or from an image to or from black.
Montage
a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.
Pan shot
panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position.
Wipe
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
Director’s cut
an edited version of a film that is supposed to represent the director’s own approved edit in contrast to the theatrical release.
