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Test 2 Flashcards

1
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Gangster Films, Musicals, Screwball Comedy, Newpaper Stories, Horror

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New Genres

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Known for Gangster films (Little Caesar)

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Edward G Robinson/Warner bros

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Responsible for creating the film musical (musical created especially for film)

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Ernst Lubitsch

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Geometric designs, dancing camera, drill Sargent

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Busby Berkeley

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Introduces slow motion into dance musicals, known as “the Dancer”, high class

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Fred Astaire

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They create chaos when placed in situations where they do not belong, A Night at the Opera

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Marx Brothers

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middle class values, always a happy ending, Its a Wonderful Life

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Frank Capra

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Master of the western, master of epic extreme long shot

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John Ford

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9
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Fred Astaire said…..

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“either the camera will dance or i will”

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10
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What age occured between 1930-1948

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The Golden Age of Hollywood

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gangster films, newspaper reporting films, social realism, screwball comedies, westerns, horror, etc

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Genres during the Golden Age

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12
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Worlds first drive in

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Camden, NJ 1933

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1937, first feature length animated film

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Mel Blanc

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Warners Kings of animation

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15
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greatest year in cinematic history

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1939

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1940s average admission

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35cents, 2/3 audiences went weekly

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investigates communists in hollywood

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1947 house un-american activities committee

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18
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banned by war department

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John Hustons “Let There Be Light”

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The Maltese Falcon , Casablanca(Quintessential 40s film)

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Humphrey Bogart

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The War of the Worlds radio broadcast

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Orson Welles

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Recognized as being one of the most innovative works in the history of film, attempt to create a new style of film making by studying and combining all the various forms of film making into one

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Citizen Kane

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Cinematographer, deep focus photography

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Gregg Toland

23
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Dramatic use of light and dark, with midrange grays for drama

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Chiaroscuro Lighting

24
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foreground, background and everything in between is in sharp focus

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Deep focus photography

25
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transitional sequences of rapidly edited images used to show lapse in time or changing events

26
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over a 20 year span, television siphons off 85% of audience

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Rise of Television 1950’s

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films that point out the flaws in the social structure, for many years the most prestigious branch of the cinema.

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Social Realism

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Social Realism influenced

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Fred Zinnemann, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kramer

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systematized acting with exercises and methods of analysis, subtext and emotional recall

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Method Acting

30
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Marlon Brando, James Dean…. Rebel characters

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New Generation of Stars

31
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Questions values and conventions of a particular genre, ex. westerns

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Revisionist Genre

32
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Called himself the “Master of Suspense”, no other actor worked from such detailed plans

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Alfred Hitchcock

33
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Drawings of each shot

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Storyboarding

34
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European films make inroads into America, university towns

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Art house theaters

35
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Patented widescreen lens: Cinemascope (1922)

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Henri Chretien

36
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Last decade of American innocence

37
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gave rise to “paranoid style” , “The Day the Earth Stood Still”

38
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Paramounts wrap-around big screen, 3-cameras 3-projectors (need to be synchronized) ($75,000 to install)

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William Castle (low-budget B-horror films)

40
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known for monumental epics, The Ten Commandments (1956) parting of Red Sea with gallons of water

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Cecil B DeMille

41
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Ben-Hur (1959), won 11 oscars, cost $15million to make most expensive film of the 50’s

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William Wyler

42
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Film Noir, Billy Wilder

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Sunset Boulevard (1950)

43
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“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close up.”

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Sunset Boulevard’s most famous line

44
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legitimized sci-fi and helped lay the groundwork for the genre and sci-fi that would follow, ex. Star Trek… First big sci-fi movie of its kind- many have imitated its elements, inspired by cold war paranoia

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

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Warner bros: voice of bugs bunny, porky pig, daffy duck preformed voices from 1937-1989

46
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Warner bros: created characters Yosemite Sam, porky pig, daffy duck

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Friz Freleng

47
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Warner bros: animator, director, responsible for developing the fast-paced tone of the cartoons. The Road runner, wile coyote, pepe le pew, marvin the martian and others

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Chuck Jones

48
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Pioneered early animated films. First known for elaborate fantasy comic strips, created the first character for film, Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

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Winsor McCay (1867-1934)

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  • Invented the rotoscope (still used today) helps produce realistic animation miniature setbacks on a turntable (3D sets placed behind the animation cells) gave a 3D look to the cartoons
  • Invented the ‘bouncing ball’ for sing-alongs
  • His cartoon series was called “Out of the Inkwell”
  • Combined live action and animation
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Max Fliescher (1919-1942)

50
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) first successful feature length animated film. Academy award winner. Special Oscar

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Walt Disney (1922…)

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