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Kinetoscope

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1893-1897
Chicago expedition
An early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole

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Cinema of Attractions

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Phycological investment
New perception
Monstrative attraction
Narrative Integration

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Narrative Integration

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A system which the cinema followed an integrated process of narrativeization

The basics of cinema and the techniques

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MPPC

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Created in 1908
First case of vertical integration
Eastman Codac could only supply MPPC

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GFC

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General Film Company
Produced films from the Trust
Unable to rapidly adjust to audiences needs for feature length films

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IMP

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Indépendant Motion Pictures
Created by Carl Lammle
Becomes Universal Studios

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“Thé Indépendants”

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Indépendant film production companies that went against the Edison Company.
1909-1915: independents fight back
Carl Lammle started IMP

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AM&B

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American Mutescope and Biograph (1895-1916)

Edison company with William Kennedy Dickson

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Biograph

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A camera invented by AM&B to shoot films

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Serpentine Dance

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Iconic association of color with the feminine body is also a shared visual traction across a variety of media
Implicit and explicit sensuality of the female body
Cinema of attractions
By Annabelle 1896

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“Burden of Representation”

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Idea of being represented in a media platform to promote issues going on in black communities
Oscar Micheaux

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WLK Dickson

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Invented cinema and the kinetoscope
Leaves American Mutiscope and Bioscope
Edison sure for parents, loses because of sprockets

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor of camera
Edison Co. controls via litigation (1907-08)
Never patented vita or kino in Europe
Trust dissolves (1915)

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Vitascope

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WKL Dickson and Edison’s projection screen

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Nickelodeon

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Theatres that cost a nickel
Round time films/ never stop
1903/1905-1908

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Edwin S. Porter

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Film pioneer
Worked w/ Edison Manufacturing Company and Famous Player Film Company
Created The Great Train Robbery
  No development or contrast in the film
  About the idea of the concept
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Pathé

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Largest producer of films and equipment(French) (1896)

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Gaumont

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French studio (1895)
Dominated Russian film industry
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Star Films and Melies

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(1911) French film company by Georges Melies (1861-1938)

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French Impressionism

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1918-1929

Camera and editing techniques argumentés the beauty of the image and evoked characters phycolocial states

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German Expressionism

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(1920-22)
Internal thoughts expressed through mise-en-scene
Urban madness
Visual distortion

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Photogenie

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By not filming something, you give it a new life

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FW Murnau

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German film director

Joined Fox Studios (1926)

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UFA

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Largest production company created by the government
(Dec 18, 1917)
Helped country after WWI

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Parufamet
German distributor that founded between Paramount, MGM and UFA
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Erich Pommer
Founder of UFA
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GW Pabst
Australian film director | Focused on interrelationships between social conditions and the individual
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Decla-Bioscope
Decla Film, à German production studio, joined with Edison’s Bioscope production studio (1920)
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New Objective/ Street Films
class divide, impoverishment, social realism, characters driven toward an unsentimental reality
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Kammerspiel
Domestic dramas Subjectivity Unchained camera
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“Russian Ending”
Everyone dies
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Kuleshove Effect
Associate cause to images based on knowledge | Form of montage
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Eisenstein
Dynamic/ movement Montage is conflict Dialectic: Marxism’s explication for change
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Vertov
Documentarian Ciné-eye: sees world as machine sees it Takes things apart and puts them back together Man with a movie camera
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Kino-eye
Mechanical eye improves biology | Sees a new
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Montage
The process to piece together images to create a whole new meaning (Eisenstein)
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Dadaism
Parody of enlightenment | About the nonsensical *
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Surrealism
Odd or uncanny Unconscious potential of the art movement Shouldn’t make sense
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Abstraction
Non narrative films Don’t attempt to reference reality or concrete subjects Rely on unique qualities of motion, rhythms, light and composition to create an emotional response
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Cubism
All about perception Style of art including geometric shapes and planes Vision subjective
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Avant Garde
Non narrative New and unusual or experimental Against traditional cinema
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Irving Thalberg
Helped manage MGM Leader in 1925 MGM became the most successful studio
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Louis B. Mayer
Co founder of MGM
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Adolf Zukor
Founder of Paramount Pictures
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Famous Players-Lasky
1916- formed by Zukor Creation of the Star System (1915) Merged FPC with 12 independents Mary Pickford- first modern film star
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Carl Laemmle
Founder of Universal Created IMP Left the Trust because of restrictions
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Nick Schenck
1923: new leader of MGM Wanted to be more vertically integrated Focused on stock
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Joe Schenck
Partnered with MGM Nick Schenck brother President of United Artists Turned united Artists into Twentieth Century Fox (1935)
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Marcus Loew
Vaudeville actor Buys Metro pictures (1920) Owner of Lowe’s/ MGM
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United Artists
A studio run by artists (Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, DW Griffith) to be able to produce their own art
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Balaban and Katz
A theater in 1916 | Became a part of the United Paramount Theatres (1948)
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Technicolor Process
2 color process: used prisms to project 2 beam of light (1926) Red, green, crane 3 color process Black and white film Cyan, magenta, yellow + strips soaked in wash and glued together
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The Black Pirate
By Douglas Fairbanks (1926) | First technicolor film
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Universal City
Longest lasting studio | Carl Lammle
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Paramount
Owner: Adolf Zukor
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Universal
``` Founded by Carl Lammle Constant competition with Zukor Struggling to keep up with the “Big 5” Bad place after the Great Depression J Cheever Cowdin took over in 1939 ```
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RKO
``` Created to work with Radio Corporation of America’s (RCA) RCA worse than WE Last vertically integrated studio Founder David Sarnoff 1928 Floyd Odlum took over in 1935 ```
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Warner Brothers
``` Harry, Albert, Jack and Sam Warner founders (1923) Vitaphone-1926 Fathers of sound (the jazz singer) 1925: global distribution 1930s: 360 theatres Cartoons WE incorporated ```
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Vitaphone
``` Sound-on-disk system Warner Brothers (1926-31) Last analog sound on disk system which was widely used and commercially successful ```
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Fox Movietone News
1928-63 A newsreel in the US Produced silent news reels
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Sound-on-film
Sound that is on the strip of film itself, where light reads the sound waves on the strip
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Western Electric
Sound recording company Worked with Warner Brothers Sound on film vs vitaphone a sound on disk
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Fox Studios
William Fox: owner (1919) 1920: worldwide studio issues 1924: opens larger studio 1925: failed so work w/ WE 1929: worked w/ WE And Fox buys socks from Lowe’s
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Loew’s/ MGM
Vertically integrated Many theatres 1922- radio Signed w/ WE
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Vertical Integration
Monopolistic practice where you own everything (execution, distribution, exhibition spaces)
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1920s Big Three & Little Five
All three vertically integrated Paramount- Publix Lowe’s/ MGM First National ``` Fox Universal Warner Brothers Producer’s Distributing Co Film Booking Office ```
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1930s Big Five & Little Three
``` Big Five (vertically integrated) Paramount Warner Brothers Fox RKO Lowe’s/ MGM ``` Little Three Columbia United Artists Universal
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MPPDA
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (1922) Hays Code- censorship A way to keep Hollywood Financially stable
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Will Hayes
Issues in the early 1922 MPPDA Will Hayes was the first leader (1922-45) Dealt with reformers who wanted govt censorship and foreign govts To maintain power: 1. Government censorship 2. International/ distribution restrictions 3. Threat of labor unrest
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Abel Gance
French Director | La Roue

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