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

1
Q

What is mise-en-scene

A

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

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2
Q

1st genre of film

A

docu

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3
Q

What was value of docu eventually used for?

A

social/political critique, ideology, propaganda

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4
Q

Docus during war

A

strict controls placed on docus in WW1 to keep secrets hidden

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5
Q

When did docus come into their own significance?

A

1902s

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6
Q

Nanook of th eNorth about

A

Eskimo life

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7
Q

Hybrid docu

A

Nanook (part docu, part modernist film)

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8
Q

Nanook location

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Canada

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9
Q

How real was Nanook?

A

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

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10
Q

Docus and filmmaker

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docus often manipulated by filmmaker in one way or another

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11
Q

Feminists view on docus

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

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12
Q

3rd genius of silent comedy

A

Harold Lloyd

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13
Q

Harold Lloyd was

A

actor/producer

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14
Q

Lloyd & $$

A

outgrossed counterparts by retaining ownership of films

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15
Q

Lloyd’s character

A

boy next door

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16
Q

Lloyd look

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horn rimmed glasses

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17
Q

Lloyd known for

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real stunts (i.e. climbing up building)

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18
Q

Films in truth

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

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19
Q

Docus appeal to

A

epistephilia

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20
Q

epistephilia def

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pleasure in knowing

21
Q

docu narrator

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voice of god, makes narration seem objective

22
Q

Documentary boun up in

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hierarchies (race, gender, etc.)

23
Q

Earliest form of film comedy

A

slapstick

24
Q

slapstick poked fun at

A

farcical situations and physical mishaps

25
Q

Who began Keystone Studios?

A

Mack Sennett

26
Q

Mack Sennet nickname

A

King of Comedy

27
Q

Leading producer in slapstick

A

Mack Sennett

28
Q

Msvk Sennett motion

A

frantic and fast, comedic

29
Q

Mack Sennett casting

A

casted exaggerated/grotesque people

30
Q

Keystone featured (ppl)

A

Fatty Arbuckle, Chaplin

31
Q

Charlie ChaplinChaplin

A

silent actor/pantomimist

32
Q

Who was Sennetts most important discovery?

A

Chaplin

33
Q

Buster Keaton look

A

stoneface

34
Q

Keaton known for

A

acrobatic visual gags

35
Q

Most acclaimed keaton film

A

the general

36
Q

Most meta early film & dir.

A

Man with the Movie Camera by Veritoff

37
Q

Why was Man with a Movie Cam revolutionary

A

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

38
Q

German Propaganda film + Director

A

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

39
Q

Real Nanook

A

Died 2 years after filming in storm

40
Q

Nanook family was

A

“The happy family”

41
Q

Riefenstahl as a director

A

REAL Star, placed each camera

42
Q

of cameras under Riefenstahl

A

30

43
Q

How hitler saw film

A

most powerful weapon in attitudes

44
Q

Angles in Triumph of the Will

A

Made hitler look godlike

45
Q

Theatrics in Triumph of the Will

A

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

46
Q

Sherlock Jr. does what to movies?

A

Exposes movie projections/movies

47
Q

Funny edits in Sherlock Jr.

A

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

48
Q

Chemistry in the Kid

A

Chaplin & Koogan had serious chemistry