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| A transition between two scenes. We can see that both scenes briefly overlap one another. Shows a passage of time. Commonly used in the 30's and 40's. |
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| a transition between one scene to the other where it appears to be wiping the previous scene off screen. |
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| Shaky, bumpy shot that is often taken with a unmounted portable camera held by the cameraman. Gives a realistic or documentary effect. |
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| A moving shot is done on a mobile platform and is pushed by the grip. |
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| Done with a large camera trolley with a long projected arm or boom at the end which is a platform. The platform holds the camera and had seats for the cameraman, assistant, and sometimes director. Crane can pass over obstacles, follow actor upstairs or do aerial scenes. |
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| Camera movement that moves with the actor horizontally. Gives the audience a wider panoramic view. |
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| Any shot taken from a truck or moving vehicle. Required when camera movement is too fast for a dolly. |
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| Point of view shot is used when the director wants the audience to experience the scene through the actors eyes. Also called subjective camera. Shot is often used to build suspense in action, horror, or mystery films. |
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| Achieved by masking part of the film when it is exposed, the rewinding the film and exposing the other side. |
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| Camera appears to move away from the subject showing more area. |
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| When the camera moves up or down along the vertical axis from a fixed position on a tripod. |
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| When a still or moving picture is projected onto the rear of a translucent screen in front of which live action is filmed. The end result is that both the background on the screen and the foreground action are combined into a single image. |
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| When the camera takes one frame of film at a time much like a still camera, while the subject moves or is re-positioned. |
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| Eadweard Muybridge's Galloping Horse. |
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| Records first series of live action with a single camera that looks like a gun. |
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- First Film on record in Library of Congress, Fredd Ott's Sneeze.
- Thomas Edison with assistant William Dickson built the Kinetoscope, a projector that allowed one to watch an endless loop of film through a peep hole.
- Edison applies for patent on William Dicksons Kinetograph (MP Camera).
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| Film longer than 50-100 feet that could be projected, Edison took credit. |
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- A Trip to the Moon.
- In 1896 founded the 1st film production company.
- Was the first to use trick photography.
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| Edwin S. Porters, The Great Train Robbery. |
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| Becomes a cameraman for D.W. Griffith. |
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| Carl Laemmle gave actors first screen credits. |
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| Cost $110,000 - Grossed 10M. |
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| Built by Thomas Edison, considered to be the first film studio in history. Built in west Orange, NJ in 1893 for $637.67. |
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| The Edison Company, 12 of its USA rivals, and the Melies Pathe companies formed the Motion Picture Patents Co. in 1908. The sought to control the manufacture and rental of all film equipment, as well as the production, distribution and exhibition of all films. |
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| Most of the studio heads were first generation Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe with very little education. They were named the Moguls after the Barbarian Conquerors of the Indian Empire. |
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| The picture drum or wheel of life. |
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| Photographer that set up from 12-30 cameras a foot apart to study the movement of people and animals. |
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| Was the 1st to use 35mm celluloid film with 4 perforations on the edge of each frame, the standard used today. |
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| In 1895 the Lumiere Bros. built the combination of a movie camera and projector. |
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| Quickly became the most important film company in the world. |
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| Men who ran them realized that what brought in costumers was sex and violence. |
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| In the early 1900's, motion pictures were shown in these. |
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| The film the took motion pictures out of the slot machine era. |
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| Natural Audience for Silent Moving Pictures were... |
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| Established producers banded together to protect their wealth. |
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| L.A. was a Film Maker magnet because... |
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| Cecil B. Demille's The Squaw Man |
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| Hollywood's first feature-length production. |
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| The book that Griffith based his movie off of. |
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| Told from the viewpoint of the south. Film caused a race problem and the KKK was reborn. Started the fortunes of Louis B. Mayer and all the other moguls. |
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| Mack Sennett started Keystone. |
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| Charlie Chaplin signed with them. |
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| Charlie Chaplin has the most impact on the film world of any film star. |
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| Charlie Chaplin signed with national for $1 million. |
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| the most popular comic film star. |
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| A film that appeals more to the viewers emotions rather than their intellect. Happy endings. |
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| A mix of various live acts: singing, dancing, comedy, and acrobats. |
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| A combo of comedy derived from the circus, vaudeville, and burlesque. This aggressive and violent comedy was introduced onto films by Mack Sennett. |
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| When an actor expressed their part with gestures or actions without using words. |
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| Mack Sennett said he stole his first idea's for comedy from? |
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| D.W. Griffith assigned Mack Sennett to... |
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| Mack Sennett had a direct link to the... |
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| Sennett insisted the Charlie Chaplin... |
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| do the knockabout slapstick his audiences expected. |
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| The one great (french) comic before Chaplin. |
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| Chaplin had become the most popular figure in the world. |
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| Was inspired by Chaplin's own childhood, when he was taken from his mother and put in an orphanage. |
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- Became Chaplins one Box Office rival.
- His lonesome Luke character resembled Chaplin too closely.
- Found his mark by looking serious.
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- AKA Frank Capra never changed his expression no matter how life treated him.
- By the time his was 7-8 years old, they were called the roughest act ever in stage history.
- Best picture was the General.
- Was a great Director.
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- Met his first girlfreind on the Train.
- At college he was known as the class clown.
- At football practice he encountered a Dog. On the team he was used as a tackle dummy.
- Coach is coaxed into letting him stay on team as the water boy.
- Speedy got into the game because there was no one else was left.
- Knew that he scored because his mouth was covered in chalk.
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| Why did Chaplin first appear on stage? |
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| Mother was booed off stage. |
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| Relative that helped Chaplin get into Vaudeville? |
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| Chaplin did what act for Fred Karno's vaudeville company? |
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| Who let Chaplin Direct his first film? |
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| Who said that movies are the most influential form of communication? |
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| At Hearst dinner party Chaplin was told he made an enemy, who? |
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| What was Hoovers reaction to the Dictator? |
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| Angry, sent assistant to California. |
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| Where was Chaplin when he found on he was being thrown out of America? |
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- the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
- Vladimir Lenin nationalized the soviet film industry.
- Lev "Kuleshow Workshop" forms in Moscow.
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| film by F.W. Murnau and cameraman Karl Freund. |
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| A style that started in Germany(with the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), it provides a distorted perspective of reality. Main characteristics were exaggerated sets, dramatic shadows, unnatural makeup and stylized acting. Was influenced by painting, literature, and music. Expressionism has had the greatest influence on Horror genre. Popular from 1919-1933. |
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| A group of small german film compainies were brought together to form the UFA. The idea was to support the WWI effort by producing propoganda films. After the War they were sold in 1918 to private investors. The were the best film studios in all of Europe. |
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| A french term that means black film. They present dark, brutal and violent look at urban life. Characteristics are: crime, corruption, sadism, bleak surroundings, dark shadows, and contrastive lighting. |
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| Early Russian editing experiments of creativly assembling various film scenes together to heighten or reinforce meaning or feeling in a scene. |
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| Made the most admired film to come out of the German Film revolution, the Last Laugh. |
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| In 1895 they brought silent films from France to Russia. |
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| The talented director Lev Kuleshov trained his pupils in exercises using it. |
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| Created a hymn to the failed revolution of 1905 in the film, Battleship Potemkin. |
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| Was hailed as on of the greats of all time. |
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| Was the studio that was to bring the silent era to an end. |
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| Movie industry had a rival... |
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| The Warner's wanted to break the monopoly by... |
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| getting their pictures more widely distributed. |
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| in August, 1926 the Warner's held a gala for its premiere. |
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| The main event of the Vitaphone Gala was this movie. |
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| Had to wait hours to see it at the Warner Bros. Theater. |
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| First recorded movie sound on disk in France. |
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| Jazz Singer: First film to use sync singing. |
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| Liberated the stationary camera. |
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| Top choreographer for Hollywood musicals. |
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| 500 feature films produced each year in the USA. |
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- Lockwood got his break when he replaced a stuntman.
- Mr. Simpson had a suprise for his guests, it was a Cake with Seldon in it.
- Simpson stopped production of the Dueling Cavalier because of the Jazz Singer.
- There was a problem with the microphone.
- To fix the movie they made it a musical.
- Cathy Seldon replaced Lina Lamont's voice.
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| Which film is registered in the US National Library as a national treasure? |
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