HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hoser, Tracking Shot, Snowball Fight
13 Feb 2017
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Buffalo dance, acrobat/gymnast from the circus, more boxers, louis martinette (circus performer/contortionist), bucking broncho (on location! He preferred shooting in the black maria), annie oakley, imperial. Japanese dance, robetta and doretto (slapstick comedy vaudeville performers, criminal outsmarting cop), band drill (keeps movement constrained, as they are in the black maria), fire rescue scene (discussed below), more boxers, first known experiment in sound film (d. b. We do have music, but these were all silent films. Edison films: talking about what we have seen so far. Stories were simple, lighthearted, and without conflict. There"s really no plot, no narrative system--but we"re seeing something. We"re seeing strong men, dancers, performers from the popular theater of the day (the circus and vaudeville), athletes, novelty acts (or spectacle entertainment ). They don"t provide us with fictional dramatic action, which is what we would need in order to have a plot.
