FILM 279- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
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What do we want from images what is their responsibility fiction/documentary: dialogue kept open b/w these 2 modes, not chronology, but network of relations, expended field of relationship with industry. Inspired by: eadweard nuybridge: early explorer of stillness and motion: the physical body navigating a modern space of calculation, application of the phonograph (moving cylinder creating sound) to the image. In its own way already present what will become the main genres: actualities, comedic, great freedom, heterogeneity, potentiality of films, desire and excitement of making images seen. Important thing: not the story (george m li s) story: support for the tricks: possibility of only making very short films, camera stood at chest height, still position. Introduction of divas, emergence of filmmakers, woman as filmmakers: technology at its start, not controlled by industry by society, freedom for new practioners : alice guy-blach , new invention means great freedom. Vitascope)= film composed of shots often sold separately.
