Midterm

Question 1

The Cabbage Fairy

Answer 1

FIlm by Alice Guy while still in the her previous studio This is arguably the world’s first narrative film, and the first film directed by a woman. 1896

t Gaumont studio in France.
Gaumont experimented with moving cameras

Question 2

Matrimony’s Speed Limit

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1913 Solax Studios Alice Guy studio after she moved (Guy needs to marry before noon to get the money for a fake aunt he looks for his someone to marry and then marries the girl he broke up with at the beginning.

Question 3

A Trip to the Moon

Answer 3

02 French adventure short film directed by Georges Méliès. length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and emphasis on storytelling were markedly influential

Question 4

Little Nemo

Gertie the Dinosaur

Answer 4

Winsor McCay cartoonist and drew the comics and was in the same clip as Gertie

Question 5

Rescued by Rover

Answer 5

Rescued by Rover is a Cecil M. Hepworth,film as well. Included his whole family including doggy 1905

Question 6

The Great Train Robbery

Answer 6

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. Clip we saw with the ending scene with the man shooting the screen. Back and forth editing.

Question 7

The Birth of a Nation

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RACIST , 915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, depicted black Americans as thugs and horrible film Used as propaganda for the KKK.

Question 8

Intolerance

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he story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.. Response to the drama from Birth of a Nation DW GRIFFITH

Question 9

Broken Blossoms

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1919 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. The asian man meets and struggles to be with his wife.

Question 10

Way Down East

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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The baby died and she was married to the rich man and then he makes her hide the past and then marries squires son.

Question 11

The Homesteader

Answer 11

The Homesteader (1919) is a lost[1] black-and-white silent film by African-American author and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. The film is based on his novel inspired by his experiences.

Question 12

Within Our GAtes

Answer 12

Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the “New Negro”. It was part of a genre called race films.

Question 13

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Answer 13

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema

Question 14

M

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M is a 1931 German thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre in his breakthrough role as Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children. he film’s screenplay was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou and was the director’s first sound film.[3

Question 15

Nosferatu

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.

Question 16

Metropolis

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Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang, and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang[5][6] from von Harbou’s 1925 novel of the same name. sci fi

Question 17

Pandora’s Box

Answer 17

Pandora’s Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by G W Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu, a seductive, thoughtless young woman whose raw sexuality and uninhibited nature bring ruin to herself and those who love her.

Question 18

The Last Laugh

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The Last Laugh (German: Der letzte Mann, transl. The Last Man) is a 1924 German silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. Hotel worker doorman and then he gets demoted because hes old but then wins the lottery

Question 19

Battleship Potemkin

Answer 19

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film produced by Mosfilm. Battleship Potemkin is considered one of the greatest films of all time.

Question 20

The Man With a Movie Camera

Answer 20

Man with a Movie Camera[1] (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, romanized: Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov. Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (at one point it features a split-screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).