B2 Flashcards
Birth of cinema ?
France
Auguste & Louis - lumière «arrival of train» — it’s a footage = une vue
The kinetoscope
Developed in New York
You could find it at fairground
The paraxinoscope
French invention
Zoetrope
Optical illusion toy in the 17th century
The first narrative film ?
Edwin. S Porter - the great train robbery 1903
The vaudeville
A form of entertainment, it was a review show or a variety show. A quick succession of shorts acts.
Vaudeville was like a form of live spectacle - people went there to see short play
The 1st movie theater ?
The Nickelodeon - in Pittsburgh
What happened in 1910 ?
Movie industry went to West Hollywood
Give the name of 1 or 2 silent movies?!
- Charles chaplin : humorist skit
Slapstick comedy - Buster Keaton in Sherlock :
Different form Chaplin
Known as a stone face
From vaudeville performers
1st sound movie ?
1927— Alan crosland’s - the jazz singer
Studio system :
The majors ?
- Paramount
- Metro-Goldwyn-meyer
- Warner Bros
- 20th Century Fox
- RKO
The minors ?
- Columbia
- Universal
- United Artists