FIL-2001 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Ford Focus, Cinema Of The United States, Academy Awards
12 Oct 2018
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FIL-2001
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
The History of Cinema
1895-Present
Lumieres pioneer projection
Cinematograph= Camera projector
Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory at Lyons= First film
Grad Café paris first theater
Sklandanowsky= first commercial presentation, Germany, 1895
R.W. Paul- famous cameras
Projection in US
Edison Company sold Vitascope, projector
May 1895 First projection in world, Boxing match
April 23rd 1896 First Edison projection for paying audience
George Milies
Hugo
Father of sci fi
First to write screenplays and use editing for special effects
A trip to the oo
Star Film Company 1896-1913
Edwin S Porter
The great Trai Roer ost pop fil i Aeria til
End shot was Bandit with a gun
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1895-1908 Movies changed to shot films
DW Griffin
Playwright who tried to make transition into movies
1908 Biograph Studio needed to increase production, Griffith became director
Invented cross cut
First filmmaker to fill space and make backdrops look 3d
Revolutionized directing-demanded underacting, casting, stylized movements, rehearsed w
actors, ensemble casts.
1913 wanted longer films, more than one reel
Birth of a atio- 1914- cot$110,000 took 6 weeks to rehearse, 9 toshoot, 13 reels of film
Itolerae . il, reels, itertied stories, inspired German and Soviet
filmmakers
Cecil B.Demille
Actor/Director/Producer
Directed The Squaw Mand1918 Hollywood first full length Western
Directed 80+ films
Golden Globes Cecil b. Demille award for contributions to cinema
Oscar Micheaux
One of the first African-American filmmakers
Wrote, directed, edited 30+
Started independent studio In Manhattan
Created rae oie s for laks
The eile , first African-American film with sound
Alice Guy Blanche
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Document Summary
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