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Flicker fusion

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Persistence of vision

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Persistence of vision

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Flicker fusion

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Phi phenomenon

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Apparent motion

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Apparent motion

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Phi phenomenon

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What is persistence of vision?

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The theory that an afterimage stays in the retina for 1/25 of a second; reason for motion perception

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What is flicker fusion?

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Number of frames per second (16) required to create motion

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Daguerre

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First photographs; father of photography

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Gustave Courbet

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Rejected romanticism and classicism

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Degas and Renoir

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Followed Courbet’s example; French impressionists used photos as documents to capture impressions and provide painting models

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Eadweard Muybridge

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Horse

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Etienne-Jules Marey

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Birds

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Who made the camera gun?

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Etienne-Jules Marey

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What film did the camera gun use?

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First glass plate, then paper rolls

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Hannibal Goodwin

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Invents celluloid and sells it to Edison

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What is celluloid?

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Flexible and durable film stock; nitrate/acetate base with an emulsion of gelatin

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What is the kinetograph/kinetoscope?

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Unprojected images in motion

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W. L. Dickson

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Right hand man of Edison before leaving for Biograph; made kinetoscope

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Where does Edison produce his films?

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Black Maria in NJ

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What does Edison create for the public?

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Peep show parlors

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How does the Lumiere camera work?

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Hand cranked, portable and converts to projector

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Gabriel Verte

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Films throughout world with Lumiere camera

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Georges Melies

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Magician known for making special effects in film; art background

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22
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Film that Georges Melies is known for?

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A Trip to the Moon

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A Trip to the Moon (techniques)

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Extended story, special effects, double exposure, dissolves, no editing, unmoving camera

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Edwin S. Porter

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Edison’s right hand man after Dickson; not much art background

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What films is Porter most known for?

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Life of an American Fireman and Great Train Robbery, The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

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The significance of Great Train Robbery

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First western; camera movement

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27
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How many one reelers in a nickelodeon?

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6

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How many nickelodeons in US by 1909?

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8000

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David Wark Griffith

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Actor who became a writer and director as a result of Nickelodeon demand

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Billy Bitzer

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Cameraman who forms partnership with Griffith

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What are the Lumiere short films?

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Employees Leaving Lumiere Factory, Arrival of a Train at the Station, Baby’s Lunch, Sprinkler Sprinkled, Boat Leaving the Harbor

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What is the name of the Lumiere camera?

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Cinematograph

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Where was the first cinematograph made?

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Factory in Lyons

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Where were the Lumiere films first shown to the public?

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The basement of the Grand Cafe, on Boulevard des Capucines

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What big event were the Lumiere films shown at? Where?

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The Paris Exposition at the Galerie des Machines

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How big was the screen at the Paris Exhibition? What treatment did the screen’s material get?

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24 meters high and 30 meters wide; the material had to be wetted

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What films was D. W. Griffith famous for?

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The Adventures of Dolly, The Lonely Villa, A Corner in Wheat, Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms

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Who made 2 films a week and for who?

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Griffith for Biograph

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39
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What are the famous scenes in Birth of a Nation?

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Little Colonel comes home, assassination of Lincoln, Gus’s pursuit of pet sister and his trial

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Who were the famous actors in Birth of a Nation?

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Lilian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall

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What is melodrama in film?

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Films with obvious good and bad characters that create an emotional impact; depicts how the world ought to be

42
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What book was Birth of a Nation based on?

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The Clansman

43
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What view of history did Birth of a Nation have?

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Foundationalist

44
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What was the result of Birth of a Nation?

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Success, huge uproar, KKK revival

45
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Where does melodrama derive from?

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Greek melos (song, music)

46
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Who wrote Pygmalion?

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

47
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What is melodrama on stage?

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Alternation between words and music; music fills in emotions when the actor isn’t speaking, or to increase emotional impact

48
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What is it called when something helps the hero when all hope is lost?

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Deus ex machina

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What are examples of melodrama?

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Birth of a Nation, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ben Hur, Star Wars

50
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Who decided that the shot was more basic than the scene?

51
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Who used most shot experimentation?

52
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What are serial films?

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Films with stories that spanned multiple episodes

53
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What is film d’art?

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Film versions of successful plays with well known players

54
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What early films was Edison most known for?

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Fun in a Chinese Laundry, The Kiss

55
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Who originally was to direct Caligari?

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Fritz Lang

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Who directed Caligari?

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Robert Wiene

57
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What films did F. W. Murnau make?

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Nosferatu, The Last Laugh

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Freeburg

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Photoplay, crowd and public, writer is most important, star and star image, emotional and visual more important than intellectual

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What is MPPC? Who formed it?

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Motion Picture Patents Company; Edison; a trust between major American film companies

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What became of MPPC?

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Declared illegal and broken up

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Where is MPPC dominant?

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Based in NYC; much competition from Europe

62
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What are the benefits of having a studio system in LA?

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Little abroad competition, bigger theaters and star system

63
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What pressures were in Chaplin?

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To join the war as a soldier

64
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Where did Chaplin get his start?

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Vaudeville

65
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Who discovered Chaplin? Who did he leave them for?

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Discovered by Sennett and then left for Essany

66
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Which two places did Chaplin work at?

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Mutual and then First National

67
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Charlie Chaplin

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Comedian from Britain who is the highest paid entertainer in history

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Who does Chaplin form UA with?

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Pickford, Fairbanks and Griffith

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What was Chaplin’s first feature?

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What were Chaplin’s most famous works?

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The Cure, The Immigrant, Shoulder Arms, Easy Street, The Tramp, The Bond

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How did Chaplin help the war effort?

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He spoke at Liberty Loan Drives to encourage people to buy bonds and made films for the soldiers to watch

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What’s the difference between the crowd and the public?

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The crowd is single minded and temporary while the public is many minded and permanent

73
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Does film exist for the crowd or the public?

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What are the three classes of appeal? According to who?

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Mainly visual and emotional, then there’s a bit of intellectual; Freeburg

75
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How do you capture the emotion of a crowd?

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Through the actor or “star”

76
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What makes up intellectual appeal?

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Satisfaction of curiosity, comic value, mental suspense

77
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What was the film industry collectivized by the German government?

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Universum Film Aktien-Gesellschaft (UFA)

78
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Who were the famous German Expressionists?

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Pommer, Murnau, Mayer, Freund, Jannings, Veidt, Lang

79
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What film did Lang make in Germany?

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Metropolis

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What are the four distinguished German film groups?

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Pageants, expressionist horror, kammerspiel, street films

81
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What does Kammerspiel mean?

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Chamber-play

82
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What are examples of expressionist horror films?

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Caligari and The Golem

83
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Who made pageants?

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Lubitsch and Lang

84
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What is the purpose of expressionism?

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Images evoke psychological ways of being, state of mind; a move away from Impressionism

85
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What was realism rooted in?

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Romantic poetry

86
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What were expressionist paintings like? Who painted them?

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Large blocks of bright colors; Kandinsky, Marc, Feininger

87
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Who worked in theater with Max Reinhardt?

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Murnau, Jannings, Veidt

88
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What is the total, consistent work of art?

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Weltanschauung

89
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What is the name of the new realism of 20’s German artists?

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Neue Sachlichkeit

90
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Who made the films King Kong, Grass and Chang?

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Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack

91
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What film did Flaherty make?

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What films did Cooper and Schoedsack make?

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Grass, King Kong, Chang

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What is Chang about?

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Tigers that kill one out of every three adults in a small town

94
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What is Grass about?

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Follows a tribe with their livestock as they travel to higher pastures for the summer

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What is a montage?

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Editing that emphasizes the juxtaposition of shots rather than invisible progression of narrative

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What is a motif?

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Something in a film that reappears throughout to create a definite and noticeable pattern; symbolic

97
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What is cross cutting?

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Editing that often cuts between two simultaneously occurring events

98
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What is Neue Sachlichkeit?

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Branched from street film; shows consequences of males leaving home for pleasure

99
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What is street film?

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Male protagonist leaves home to satisfy urge for excitement and sensual pleasure

100
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What was a major German contribution to film?

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Use of moving camera

101
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What is an example of subjective camera?

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The tipsy camera movement in The Last Laugh when the main character is drunk

102
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What is an example of Kammerspielfilm?

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The Last Laugh

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