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First known film w/ live recording sound

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Dickson Expiramental Sound Film

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Invention Expiramental Sound Film was made to test

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Edison’s Kineyophone

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1st known and only surviving edison sound film for kinetophone

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Dickson Expiramental Sound Film

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Dancing Star of Edison’s films

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Annabelle Moore

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Special fx that often went w/ Annabelle’s flicks

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Hand colored film

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_______ audiences LOVED Annabelle

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Male

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Earliest nickolodeons featured

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Annabelle Moore

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Inventors of 1st successful motion picture projectors

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Auguste & Louis Lumiere

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Lumiere movie genres mostly _______

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docus & comedy

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Quality of Lumiere films

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High quality & value

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Lumiere mistake movie

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Demolishing a Wall

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Demolishing a Wall mistake

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Projected forwards and then backwards

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How did audience take Lumiere Bros. mistake

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It was a HIT w/ audiences

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Who inspired Lumiere projector idea

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Antoine Lumiere (their father)

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Antoine Lumiere inspiration & retort

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Saw Edison’s kinetoscope potential, “You can do better, try to the image out of that box” (to sons)

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What did Lumiere brothers do with movies? (2)

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Opened a theater & got camera operators to venture all over the world

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Lumiere brothers technical experts in ____________

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Cinematography. framing shots

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Framed shot Lumiere brothers did spectacularly

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Diagonal Shots

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Lumiere films reproduced ________

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life

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Sometimes the fact that Lumiere Bros had a camera ________________

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influenced what was ON camera, caused overracting (i.e. extras)

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The Great Train Robbery Director

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Edwin Porter

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Great Train Robbery was a precursor to _______

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The Western

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Type of editing Great Train Robbery introduced (3)

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Parallel editing/Simultaneous Action

Jump Cuts/Cross Cuts

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Beginning or Ending of Great Train Robbery

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Bandit fires gun into face of camera/audience

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Melies' most famous film
A Trip to the Moon
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Genre of Trip to the Moon
Satire
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What was Trip to the Moon for Melies?
His personal vision
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Melies profession before film
magician/showman
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1st sci-fi story
Trip to the Moon
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Trip to the Moon a version of
Jules Verne story
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Trip to the Moon budget
Had a HUGE budget
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What did Melies do on set?
Wrote, directed, designed sets/costumes, produced, & had lead role
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Trip to the Moon guest stars
acrobats & ballerinas
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Trip to the Moon editing utilized
Special fx
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Kinetograph is the ________ | While the Kinetoscope is the _______
Kinetograph= Viewer | Kintoscope=Camera
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"Founding Fathers" of modern cinema
Lumiere Bros.
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Lumiere's tech. was combo of
Movie camera & Projector
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Lumiere Bros. 1st demo of system
"Workers Leaving the Factory"
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First Lumiere comedy
Gardener & Hose
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Lumiere's presented first exhibition in 1st ______ + Name
movie theater, "Salon Indien"
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Edison's failed projector (& rename)
Phantascope, renamed Vitascope
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First permanent movie theaters were
Converted churches and halls
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Where was the first building for ONLY movies
Paris
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Lumiere Bros. wouldn't ______ to ______
sell camera to Melies
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What did Melies do once Lumiere Bros. didn't sell camera to him?
Made his own
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Vitagraph Co known for
Slapstick comedies
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American Mutoscope Co.
As a camera the mutograph became popular in the US
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Mutograph was a
Peephole flipcard device
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"Father of Story Film"
Edwin S. Porter
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Edwin S Porter job before director
Kinetoscope operator/director for Edison
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1st American Docu + Dir
"Life of American Fireman" by Edwin S Porter
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Great Train Robbery & Audiences
1st MOVIE SMASH HIT
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Great Train Robber made people realize
Film could be commercially viable medium
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Edison MASTER OF
Patents
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Who should get MAJOR credit for Edison's work?
Dickson
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John Carbutt invention
Emulsion coated celluloid film sheets
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Earliest surviving copywrited film
Record of a Sneeze
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Earliest surviving copywrited film made on
Kinetoscope
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Role of Vaudeville Performers + 2 ex.
First subjects in films (Carmencita, Annabelle)
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As sales/use of projections went up....
Kinetograph use/sale went down
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William Paley shot _____ films in ______
War films in Cuba
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Paley's reenactment films were of ______
Spanish American War
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Spanish American War film by
William Paley
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What genres dominated Nickelodeons
Fictional films
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Popular place of Nickelodeons
storefront theaters (frequent/convenient showings)
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Edison patents lead to
monopoly on film
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Phonograph marriage of
Sight and sound
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Phonograph synching
pulley system for phonograph & projector
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Phonograph talkies often...
didn't work
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Chinese philosophers
Taught of light rays/how it works & is manipulated
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Renaissance/330 BC Inventions
Camera Obscura
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Class ends where?
1965, Release of small format/portable PORTAPAK
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End of 19th century plant-based material, highly flammable
Celluloid
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Explosion of mid 1880s - early 1900s technology examples
Airplane, Phonograph, Film, Automobile
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Explosion of mid 1880s - early 1900s technology have to do with
MOTION
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24 cameras used in
Muybridge'sHorse
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Edison's 1st product that reproduced sound
phonograph
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How many people could use kinetoscope
1
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Edison's 1st expierience w/ film name & quality
Monkey Shines #1, Low Quality
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Edison's cameraman
Dickson
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Popular body builder used in Edison
Sandow (most popular body builder)
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Racist Edison film
Watermellon contest
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Controversial Edison film w/ abuse
Electrocuted elephant (ad for edison electricity)

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