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History of Narrative Cinema Final
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2013

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Nosferatu
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Director: F.W. Murnau

 

Cinematographer: Fritz Arno Wagnor 

 

(Funeral outside/carrying caskets. Famous scene: opens door and sees Nosferatu staring at him. Woman sacrifices herself for the sake of humanity.) 

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The Great Train Robbery
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Director/Producer/Writer/Cinematographer:

Edwin S. Porter

 

Cinematographer: Blair Smith

 

(Character shoots at Camera) 

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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Director: Robert Wiene 

 

Writer: Carl Mayer

 

Involved in Production: Fritz Lang

 

(German Expressionism. Twist ending. First murder revealed in shadow.) 

 

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Metropolis
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Director/Writer: Fritz Lang

 

Writer: Thea Von Harbou

 

Cinematographer: Karl Freund

 

(Rotwang - the model for every evil scientist that comes after him) 

 

 

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Pandora's Box
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Director/Writer: G.W. Pabst

 

Cinematographer: Gunther Krampf

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Last Laugh
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Director: F.W. Murnau 

 

Writer: Carl Mayer 

 

Cinematographer: Karl Freund. 

 

(Building closing in to symbolize mental breakdown. Uniform. Elevator Shot.)

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Birth of a Nation
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Director/Producer/Writer: D.W. Griffith 

 

Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer 

 

(The birth of KKK. Charged theater prices. First full length film.) 

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Nanook of the North
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Everything: Robert J. Flaherty

 

(Staged documentary.)

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A Trip to the Moon
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Director: Georges Méliès

 

(First science fiction.)

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Jazz Singer
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Director: Alan Crossland

 

("You ain't seen nothin' yet") 

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M
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Director: Fritz Lang

 

Writer: Thea Von Harbou

 

Cinematographer: Fritz Arno Wagnor

 

("Lohman, Lohman") 

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The Immigrant and Modern Times
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Director: Charlie Chaplin

 

Cinematographer: Totheroh 

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Hallelujah
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King Vidor

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Greed
Definition

Director: Erich Von Stroheim

 

(Fixation on Money, Valley of Death.)

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Battleship Potemkin
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Director: Eisenstein 

 

Cinematographer: Edward Tisse

 

(Maggots in meat. Killed over a bowl of soup. Odessa steps.) 

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Napoleon
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Director: Abel Gance

 

 

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Scarface
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(Dir) Howard Hawks and Richard Rossen

 

(Hayes Commition)

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The Passion of Joan of Arc
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Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

 

Cinematographer: Rudolph Mate

 

(Looking up at God. Carnival like atmosphere during execution.) 

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Sherlock Jr. and the General
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Director: Buster Keaton

 

Producer: Joseph M. Schenck

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42nd Street
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Director: Lloyd Bacon

 

Creator of Dances and Ensembles: Busby Berkeley

 

(made after the code) 

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Duck Soup
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Marx Brothers

 

(Considered one of the greatest comic films. Peanut routine. Lemonade stand. Freedonia- where the story takes place.) 

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Director: Frank Capra

 

Writer: Sydney Buffin 

 

(Deus ex Machina. Character puts/mercury of some shot/on his tongue to impair speech.)

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It Happened One Night
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Director: Frank Capra

 

 

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Stage Coach
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Director: John Ford

 

Yakima Canutt: Invents modern stunts

 

(Western. Tonto- the town they live in. Steven Foster song: "Marriage Slave".) 

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Citizen Kane
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Director: Orson Welles

 

Cinematographer: Greg Tolen

 

Music by: Bernard Hermin

 

(Kubla Khan. Sort of an anti-hero. Flashbacks.) 

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The Grand Illusion
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Director: Jean Renoir

 

(Social classes mixed together. Mis En Scene. Brotherly love.) 

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Casablanca
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Director: Michael Curtiz

 

Writers: Julius and Philip Epstein

 

("Here's to you kid".) 

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