Reading 3: Organized Time/Truth of the Docu form & Silent Comedy

Question 1

What is mise-en-scene

Answer 1

everything that goes into the composition of a shot, including composition itself

Question 2

1st genre of film

Answer 2

docu

Question 3

What was value of docu eventually used for?

Answer 3

social/political critique, ideology, propaganda

Question 4

Docus during war

Answer 4

strict controls placed on docus in WW1 to keep secrets hidden

Question 5

When did docus come into their own significance?

Answer 5

1902s

Question 6

Nanook of th eNorth about

Answer 6

Eskimo life

Question 7

Hybrid docu

Answer 7

Nanook (part docu, part modernist film)

Question 8

Nanook location

Answer 8

Canada

Question 9

How real was Nanook?

Answer 9

Not very, Flaherty staged many scenes/portrayed story he wished to show vs. real life

Question 10

Docus and filmmaker

Answer 10

docus often manipulated by filmmaker in one way or another

Question 11

Feminists view on docus

Answer 11

believe them to be “conservative institutions which reinforce ideological status quo”

Question 12

3rd genius of silent comedy

Answer 12

Harold Lloyd

Question 13

Harold Lloyd was

Answer 13

actor/producer

Question 14

Lloyd & $$

Answer 14

outgrossed counterparts by retaining ownership of films

Question 15

Lloyd’s character

Answer 15

boy next door

Question 16

Lloyd look

Answer 16

horn rimmed glasses

Question 17

Lloyd known for

Answer 17

real stunts (i.e. climbing up building)

Question 18

Films in truth

Answer 18

films want to be “objective” and tell “truth” when in reality such is impossible (viewers never see way footage is manipulated)

Question 19

Docus appeal to

Answer 19

epistephilia

Question 20

epistephilia def

Answer 20

pleasure in knowing

Question 21

docu narrator

Answer 21

voice of god, makes narration seem objective

Question 22

Documentary boun up in

Answer 22

hierarchies (race, gender, etc.)

Question 23

Earliest form of film comedy

Answer 23

slapstick

Question 24

slapstick poked fun at

Answer 24

farcical situations and physical mishaps

Question 25

Who began Keystone Studios?

Answer 25

Mack Sennett

Question 26

Mack Sennet nickname

Answer 26

King of Comedy

Question 27

Leading producer in slapstick

Answer 27

Mack Sennett

Question 28

Msvk Sennett motion

Answer 28

frantic and fast, comedic

Question 29

Mack Sennett casting

Answer 29

casted exaggerated/grotesque people

Question 30

Keystone featured (ppl)

Answer 30

Fatty Arbuckle, Chaplin

Question 31

Charlie ChaplinChaplin

Answer 31

silent actor/pantomimist

Question 32

Who was Sennetts most important discovery?

Answer 32

Chaplin

Question 33

Buster Keaton look

Answer 33

stoneface

Question 34

Keaton known for

Answer 34

acrobatic visual gags

Question 35

Most acclaimed keaton film

Answer 35

the general

Question 36

Most meta early film & dir.

Answer 36

Man with the Movie Camera by Veritoff

Question 37

Why was Man with a Movie Cam revolutionary

Answer 37

People genuinely didn’t know how films were made, pulled curtain back

Question 38

German Propaganda film + Director

Answer 38

Triumph des Willens (aka “Triumph of the Will”), Leni Riefenstahl,

Question 39

Real Nanook

Answer 39

Died 2 years after filming in storm

Question 40

Nanook family was

Answer 40

“The happy family”

Question 41

Riefenstahl as a director

Answer 41

REAL Star, placed each camera

Question 42

of cameras under Riefenstahl

Answer 42

30

Question 43

How hitler saw film

Answer 43

most powerful weapon in attitudes

Question 44

Angles in Triumph of the Will

Answer 44

Made hitler look godlike

Question 45

Theatrics in Triumph of the Will

Answer 45

Hitler’s persona/voice/projection/fame/etc.

Question 46

Sherlock Jr. does what to movies?

Answer 46

Exposes movie projections/movies

Question 47

Funny edits in Sherlock Jr.

Answer 47

His dream sequence and funny edits of being in diff. movies

Question 48

Chemistry in the Kid

Answer 48

Chaplin & Koogan had serious chemistry