people movies an dates

Question 1

lumiere brothers

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french documentary style film makers who invented the first portable record and project camera called the Cinématographe

Question 2

Georges Méliès

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french film maker played a big part in early special affects; responsible for the movie trip to the moon

Question 3

Edwin S. Porter

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the person responsible for the great train robbery commonly deemed the first western also made use of parallel editing and showed camera movement

Question 4

NY Hat

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girl’s mother dies an she is bought a hat by the priest with money left by her mother and a scandal is accused

Question 5

Corner in Wheat

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wall street millionaires corner the wheat market sending prices up and eliminating the food of the working man the ironic consequence is that the man who came up with the scheme dies in a vat of wheat.

Question 6

Musketeers of Pig Alley

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first real gang movie theft of wallet turns leads to a desperate search and find, all the while a mans wife is being perused by a mobster

Question 7

birth of a nation

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RACISM

Question 8

Way Down East

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sheets of ice on the river stressed the idea of stunt doubles in movies and was kind of outlandish in its circumstances. also unique filming style used in ice scene

Question 9

Charlie Chaplin

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probably the most famous star in silent movies in america legendary comedian the immigrant.

Question 10

Mack Sennette

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the inventor of slapstick comedy we watched his movie with the stupid policemen

Question 11

buster keaton

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big silent film name he did a little of everything in the silent film world. his movie sherlock junior showed an introduction to the fugue state using the dream of him solving the crime in the film

Question 12

Robert Flaherty

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made the first successful full length documentary nanook of the north also helped question journalism practices due to some dishonesty

Question 13

Luis Bunuel

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one of dali’s fellow impressionists was much more committed to the movement as a whole than dali which was what eventually led to dali’s excommunication

Question 14

Un Chien Andalou

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impressionist the effects are the main thing of interest many different perspectives that can be offered about life but perhaps more important is the use of perspective to change what we are seeing additionally it should be noted chronology was not of concern

Question 15

battle ship Potemkin

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rewrote history of an actual mutiny that failed

Question 16

man with a movie camera

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documentary of every day life in soviet union

Question 17

metropolis

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shows the class inequality in the german system in the most dramatic way possible

Question 18

the cabinet of DR caligari

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another almost sureal movie with a distorted sense of time and plot due to the ending but was originally supposed to question the system

Question 19

vertov

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behind man with a movie camera

Question 20

eisenstien

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battle ship potemkin