Film Terms

Dissolve

• Transition between two scenes. (fade in/out)
• Used to show a passage of time
• Commonly used in film during the 30's & 40's

Film Terms

• Transition from one scene to another in a which the new scene appears while pushing or wiping the previous one off

Film Terms

• Often shaky, bumpy shot taken with an unmounted portable camera held by a cameraman.
• Can provide a realistic or documentary effect

Film Terms

•  Stationary camera starts to move. 
• Done on a mobile platform on wheels that supports the camera, cameraman, and assistant cameraman.
• Generally pushed by the grip.

Film Terms

• Done with a large camera trolley with a long projected arm or boom at the end of which is a platform.
• platform holds the samera and has seats for the camera operator, cam assistant, and sometimes director
• can pass over obstacles, move around props, follor an actor up the stairs, or move from ground level to great heights for an aerial view of a scene

Film Terms

• Camera movement that moves with the actor horizontally.
• Term comes from panorama.
• Gives the audience a wider more panoramic view

Film Terms

• Used when the director wants the audience to experience the scene through the actors eyes.
• Subjective camera.
• Often used to build suspense in action, horror or mystery films

Film Terms

• Generally any shot taken from a truck or moving vehicle.
• It is used when the required camera movement is too fast for a dolly.

Film Terms

• The camera appears to move away from the subject showing more area.

Film Terms

• When the camera moves up ir down along a vertical axis from a fixed position on a tripod.

Film Terms

• A still or moving picture is projected onto the rear of a translucent screen in front of which live action is filmed.
• Both the background on the screen and the foreground action are combined into a single image.

Film Terms

• When the camera takes one frame of film at a time much like a still camera, while the subject moves or is repositioned. 

Film Terms

• When the camera is run at a slower than normal speed.

Discovery

1852

Persistence of Vision

Discovery

Eadward Muybridge's Galloping Horse

Discovery

Jules Marey records first series of live- action with single camera

Discovery

George Eastman invents roll film

Discovery

Fred Otts's Sneeze (first film on record at Library of Congress)

Discovery

Thomas Edison applies for patent on William Dickson's Kinetograph (motion picture camera) 

Discovery

First projected film to paying audience (Lumiere Bros. Cinematographe, Paris, France)

Discovery

George Melies ( A Trip to the Moon)

Early pioneer of special effects. 1st film company

Discovery

Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery

#1 1903-1912

Discovery

10,000 Nickelodeons

26 million people per week/ 100 million

Discovery

Billy Bitzer becomes cameraman for D.W. Griiffith

Discovery

Carl Laemmle gave actors first screen credits

Discovery

Birth of a Nation (Cost: $110,000- Grossed $10 M)

Discovery

• Built by Thomas Edison.
• Considered the first ffilm studio in the history of motion pictures.
• Built in West Orange, New Jersey in 1893 for $637.67.

Discovery

• Short films of everyday life with no storyline.
• First used by the Lumiere Bros while introducing their films in Dec. 1895, Paris.

Discovery

• Edison Company, twelve of its USA, and the Melies/ Pathe companies formed the Motion Picture Patents CO. in 1908.
• Sought to control the manufacture and rental of all film equipment, as well as the production, distribution and exhibition of all films.

Discovery

• Studio heads were first generation Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe with little education.
• Named after the Barbarian Conquerors of the Indian Empire.

Tonight Tonight

A Trip to the Moon

This music video was a tribute to what 1902 film?

Edison & Lumiere

Zoetrope

Picture drum (wheel of life)

Edison & Lumiere

Photographer that set up from 12- 30 cameras a foot apart to study the movement of people and animals.

Edison & Lumiere

Thomas Edison also made a major contribution to film history. He was the 1st (American) to use ___ celluloid film with 4 perforations on the edge of each frame, the standard format used today.

Edison & Lumiere

In 1891, with his assistant William Dickson, ____ built a Kinetoscope, a projector that allowed one to watch an endless loop of film through a peep hole.

Edison & Lumiere

In 1895, the Lumiere Bros built their ____ a combination movie camera and projector.

Edison & Lumiere

In 1896 ____ founded the first film production company.

Edison & Lumiere

Two French companies Gaumont and Pathe turned the motion picture craze into an ____.

Early Film History

Sex, Violence

The men who ran the penny arcades quickly realized what brought the customers in was ___ and ___.

Early Film History

The Great Train Robbery 

The film that took motion pictures out of the slot machine era was____.

Early Film History

The natural audience for the (silent) moving pictures were ____. They needed no English to enjoy moving pictures. 

Early Film History

They called them (early movies) the ____.

The Film Industry Moves West

Patron's Trust

Established producers banded together to protect their wealth. They were called the _____.

The Film Industry Moves West

L.A. proved a magnet for filmmakers because of its _______.

The Film Industry Moves West

In fact (DeMille) found them all within driving distance of Hollywood; the big city, the seaport, the open range, the mountains, snow country, and the desert. _____ had everything.

D.W. Griffith

D.W. Griffith

Who is considered the Father of Film?

D.W. Griffith

D.W. Griffith told his story from the view point of the ____.

D.W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation caused a racist problem. Soon after the release ____ was reborn.

D.W. Griffith

The film that started the fortunes of Louis B. Mayer and all the others (moguls) was ____.

Slapstick Comedy

1912

Mack Sennett started Keystone

Slapstick Comedy

Charlie Chaplin signed with Keystone

Slapstick Comedy

Charlie Chaplin has the most impact on the film world of any film star

Slapstick Comedy

Charlie Chaplin signed with National for $1 million

Slapstick Comedy

 Harold Lloyd is the most popular comic film star

Slapstick Comedy

• Film that appeals more to the viewer's emotions rather than their intellect.
• Comes from theater plays in which good overcomes evil and usually has a happy ending.

Slapstick Comedy

• A mixture of various live acts: singing, dancing, comedy, and acrobats.

Slapstick Comedy

• A combination of comedy derived fromt he circus, vaudeville, and burlesque.
• Aggressive and violent comedy was introduced by Mack Sennett.

Slapstick Comedy

• When an actor expresses their part with gestures or actions without using words.

Mack Sennett

Pathe

Mack Sennett:" I stole my first ideas (for comedy) from the ____"."

Mack Sennett

D.W. Griffith assigned Mack Sennett to ____ comedies.

Mack Sennett

Sennett had a direct link to the _____.

Charlie Chaplin

Max Linder

The one great comic before Chaplin was the Frenchman _____.

Charlie Chaplin

London 1912, Charlie Chaplin had become the most _____ in the world.

Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin's own London childhood, when he was taken from his mother and put in an orphanage, was the inspiration for the (film) The ___.

Harold Lloyd

Box Office

He (Harold Lloyd) became the one comic who seriously rivaled Chaplin at the ______.

Harold Lloyd

Chaplin

His ( Harold Lloyd) character Lonesome Luke resembled ____ too closely for Lloyd to stay with it for long.

Harold Lloyd

Serious

Lliyd found his mark not by looking funny, but by looking ____.

Buster Keaton

Roughest Act

" By the time I (Buster Keaton) got up to around 7 and 8 years old, we were called the ____ in the history of the stage."

Buster Keaton

Harvery Perry: " To my knowledge, Buster Keaton never had a _____."

Buster Keaton

His ( Buster Keaton) most spectacular picture was the _____.

Buster Keaton

Why, he (Buster Keaton) was not only a great comic, but a great comedy ____.

The Freshman

On a train

Where did Harold Lamb (Speedy) first meet his girlfriend?

The Freshman

Upon arriving at college Speedy instantly became known as the class _____?

The Freshman

At Speedy's first football practice he has an encounter with what animal?

The Freshman

While trying out for the football team Speedy finds the team using him as a _____?

The Freshman

The coach wants to cut Speedy but one of the players (Chet) suggests the coach let him stay on as the _____?

The Freshman

What was the reason that Speedy got into the game?

The Freshman

Its clear Speedy has scored a touchdown when his _____ is covered with white chalk.