Le cinéma français Flashcards
1
Q
cinématograph comes from
A
Greek: kinéma (movement)
Graphein (writer)
2
Q
Lumière Brothers
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Louis & Auguste
Saw Edison’s Kientiscope in Paris 1894
Took patent in 1895
3
Q
First public projection
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December 1895, Paris
4
Q
Goerge Méliès
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Trip to the moon
Made film an art
Treated it like theatre
5
Q
Who industrialized Cinema?
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Frères Pathé & Gaumont
6
Q
How was cinema affected after WWI
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French suffered, but many US studios opened in hollywood
7
Q
First Film with sound?
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Lindberg: Paris to NYC
1927
Just music and SFX, no talking
8
Q
1930’s
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Talkies
9
Q
1935
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Colour - Becky Sharp
10
Q
1950s
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La nouvelle vague:
Godard, Truffaut, etc
Inspired by American trned (Hitchcock)
All critics first - Les Cahiers du Cinema
11
Q
1960s-‘70s
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Comedies
Molière
12
Q
1980s
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Dramatic, realist
Spectacles influenced by Hollywood
13
Q
Cannes
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1946
2nd week of May
