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MDSA02 Part II > Moving Images > Flashcards

Moving Images Flashcards

1
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Primitive, basic animation

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moving images

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Magic Lantern in 17th century - projected images painted on glass plates using oil lamp as light source

Zoetrope - cylindrical device that rapidly twirled images inside a cylinder; appearing to make the images move

Praxinoscope (1877 by Reynaud)
• Eliminates slot to look trhough and inserts a mirror

Vitascope
• hype and media advances
• enabled filmstrips of longer lengths to be projected without interruption
• potential of movies as a future mass medium
• boxing match → people at the time were amazed at how realistic it was
o people had an emotional response – AFFECT
• when it was new, it was really exciting

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History of moving images examples!

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the representation of an object (a thing, an idea, or any communicatory act) whereby the object is structured and presented by some intervening medium

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mediation

i.e. drugs = media
• experience a mediated experience
• mediates mind between what is normal vs what you perceive when you’re on drugs

“Fred Ott’s Sneeze” (Edison Studios, 1894)
• motion picture
• why is this important?
o Media helps us see this in new ways

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4
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peephole viewer at top of cabinet; lead to cylinder phonograph

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Kinetoscope

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• Does the racehorse raise 4 feet off the ground or 2?
o Took photographs to find out
• He determined that the horse kept 4 feet off the ground simultaneously
• His studies also looked at people
• Allowed people to see themselves in ways they haven’t seen themselves before
• People doing realistic things

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Eadweard Muybridge

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  • Split between reality and fantasy

* Breaks out of the reality box and film for entertainment w/ a longer narrative form

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Georges Melies

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“A Trip to the Moon” (1902)
• static to our eyes bc of the movie camera back then

“Life of an American Fireman” (1903)
• imaginary insert of what the fireman is thinking about at the time
• where the split (realistic/fantasy) happens

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Examples by Melies

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“The Great Train Robbery” (1903)
• written, produced, and directed by Porter
• *first film to use editing to establish relationships; camera moves with the action
• splice two pieces of film together
• more visual possibilities

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Porter

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moving images → cinema
• rise of Hollywood system and Hollywood narrative
• we are the children of this narrative so we don’t even realize

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D.W. Griffith

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Here is where media started for the people of that time

Experience
•	Lacking:
o	Sound
o	Speed = slow
o	Editing (very advanced in 1911)
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“Lonedale Operator” directed by Griffith

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to re-mediate
• The form of old media becomes content in new media
• How is the telegraph remediated in The Lonedale Operator?
o Telegraph = content → story about the telegraph; plot
o Place A: Her telegraph → Place B: another operator
• Jump cut conveys how the telegraph collapses time and space
• Jump cut makes no sense without the telegraph
• became content in the way film works

“Birth of the Nation” directed by Griffith
• empty room merges with the people in the room
• this film is considered racist
• encapsulation of what happens when we go into that realistic mode

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Remediation

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is the perfection or erasure of the gap bt signifier and signified, such that a representation ois perceived to be the thing itself; consequence f naïve verbal realism
• The symbol is perceived to be a window to the real
• To make the viewer forget that the medium is even there

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Immediacy

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predominant style of editing in narrative cinema
• Shots are edited together to complement each other
• To smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots

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Continuity Editing

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14
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French for “build/assemble”

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Montage

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i.e. where immediacy gives vigor picture of something that is real even though it is highly manufactured (paradox of film)

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Odessa Steps

Remediation of Odessa Steps where the baby lives instead of dying

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is a style of visual representation whose goal is to make the audience aware of the medium

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Hypermediacy

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17
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examples of ______

Man with the Movie Camera directed by Vertov
• Trying to break out of narrative entirely
• Where the audience is aware of the camera

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Hypermediacy

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•	Form becomes content in new media
•	“Citizen Kane”
o	visual nature of photo coming to life
o	move from reality to photograph to front page of newspaper
•	Low angle shots
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Orson Welles

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19
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• Cinema is essentially emotion, it is pieces of film journal

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Hitchcock

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20
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  • How editing works

* Expression does not matter; it is the context

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Hitchcock Loves Bikins

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21
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Hannibal Goodwin improved Eastman’s roll film by using thin strips of transparent pliable material known as ______ that could hold a coating of chemi-cals sensitive to light

solved a major problem: It enabled a strip of film to move through a camera and be photographed in rapid succession, producing a series of pictures.

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celluloid

22
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Edison and assistant Dickson created the early movie camera called the ____ with its single-person viewing system, the ___

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kinetograph; kinetoscope

23
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Edison patented several intentions and manufactured a new large-screen system which enabled filmstrips of longer lengths to be projected without interruption and hinted at the potential of movies as a future mass medium

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vitascope

24
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movies that tell stories as opposed to static films (i.e. waves breaking beaches)

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narrative films

25
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form of movie theater whose name combines admission price with the Greek word for “theater”

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nickelodeons

26
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aim to dominate movie business at all three essential levels - production, distribution, exhibition

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vertical integration

27
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a situation in which few firms control the bulk of business

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oligopoly

28
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firmly controlled creative talent in the industry by 1920s

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studio system

29
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Zukor led the fight for independent film companies looking for other distribution strategies aside from the Trust

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block dstribution

30
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full-time single-screen movie theaters that provided a more hospitable moviegoing environment.

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movie palace

31
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built in convenient places near urban mass transit stations to attract the business of urban and suburban middle class

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mid-city movie theaters

32
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multiple screens lure middle-class crowed to interstate highway crossroads

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multiplexes

33
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early 1900s now became a few powerful studios: _____ and _____

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Big Five (Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox and RKO)

didn’t own theaters: Little Three (Columbia, Universal, United Artists)

34
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The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first ____ (more than an hour long film)

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feature-length film

35
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blockbuster

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FILL IN

36
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FILL IN

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talkies

37
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FILL IN

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newsreels

38
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a category in which conventions regarding similar characters, scenes, structures, and themes recur in combination

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genre

39
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grouping films by category was the industry’s way of accomplishing two economic goals:

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product standardization and product diffrentiation

40
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recorded daily life in various communities around the world

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travelogues

41
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Moana (1925) a study of the lush South Pacific islands inspired the term

a creative treatment of actuality

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documentary

42
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French term for truth film

in late 1950s and early 1960s with development of portable camera

record fragments of everyday life more unobtrusively

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cinema verite

43
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independently produced films

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indies

44
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Hollywood Ten hearings

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FILMM IN

45
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forcing studios to gradually divest themselves on their theaters

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Paramount decision

46
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facilities with fourteen or more screens

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megaplexes

47
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current Hollywood commercial film business is ruled primarily by _____ companies

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The BIG SIX (Warner Bros, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Columbia Pictures, and Disney)

48
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the promotion and sale of a product throughout the various subsidiaries of media conglomerate

companies promoting new movie along with its book form, soundtrack, calendars, shirts, web sties, toys, etc.

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synergy

49
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shift from celluloid film; cheaper film and cameras

capture additional footage without high concern of cost of film stock and processins

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digital video

50
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described cultural products that become popular and provide shared cultural experiences

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consensus narratives

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