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1
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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

2
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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

4
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MPPC

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

5
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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

6
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IMP

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Indépendant Motion Pictures
Created by Carl Lammle
Becomes Universal Studios

7
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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

8
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AM&B

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American Mutescope and Biograph (1895-1916)

Edison company with William Kennedy Dickson

9
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Biograph

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A camera invented by AM&B to shoot films

10
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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

11
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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

12
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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)

14
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Vitascope

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WKL Dickson and Edison’s projection screen

15
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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
17
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Pathé

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

18
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Gaumont

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French studio (1895)
Dominated Russian film industry
19
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Star Films and Melies

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

20
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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

21
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German Expressionism

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

22
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Photogenie

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By not filming something, you give it a new life

23
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FW Murnau

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German film director

Joined Fox Studios (1926)

24
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UFA

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

25
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Parufamet

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German distributor that founded between Paramount, MGM and UFA

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Erich Pommer

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Founder of UFA

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GW Pabst

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Australian film director

Focused on interrelationships between social conditions and the individual

28
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Decla-Bioscope

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Decla Film, à German production studio, joined with Edison’s Bioscope production studio (1920)

29
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New Objective/ Street Films

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class divide, impoverishment, social realism, characters driven toward an unsentimental reality

30
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Kammerspiel

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Domestic dramas
Subjectivity
Unchained camera

31
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“Russian Ending”

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Everyone dies

32
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Kuleshove Effect

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Associate cause to images based on knowledge

Form of montage

33
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Eisenstein

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Dynamic/ movement
Montage is conflict
Dialectic: Marxism’s explication for change

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Vertov

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Documentarian
Ciné-eye: sees world as machine sees it
Takes things apart and puts them back together
Man with a movie camera

35
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Kino-eye

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Mechanical eye improves biology

Sees a new

36
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Montage

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The process to piece together images to create a whole new meaning (Eisenstein)

37
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Dadaism

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Parody of enlightenment

About the nonsensical *

38
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Surrealism

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Odd or uncanny
Unconscious potential of the art movement
Shouldn’t make sense

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Abstraction

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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

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All about perception
Style of art including geometric shapes and planes
Vision subjective

41
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Avant Garde

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Non narrative
New and unusual or experimental
Against traditional cinema

42
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Irving Thalberg

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Helped manage MGM
Leader in 1925
MGM became the most successful studio

43
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Louis B. Mayer

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Co founder of MGM

44
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Adolf Zukor

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Founder of Paramount Pictures

45
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Famous Players-Lasky

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1916- formed by Zukor
Creation of the Star System (1915)
Merged FPC with 12 independents
Mary Pickford- first modern film star

46
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Carl Laemmle

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Founder of Universal
Created IMP
Left the Trust because of restrictions

47
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Nick Schenck

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1923: new leader of MGM
Wanted to be more vertically integrated
Focused on stock

48
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Joe Schenck

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Partnered with MGM
Nick Schenck brother
President of United Artists
Turned united Artists into Twentieth Century Fox (1935)

49
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Marcus Loew

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Vaudeville actor
Buys Metro pictures (1920)
Owner of Lowe’s/ MGM

50
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United Artists

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A studio run by artists (Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, DW Griffith) to be able to produce their own art

51
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Balaban and Katz

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A theater in 1916

Became a part of the United Paramount Theatres (1948)

52
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Technicolor Process

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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

53
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The Black Pirate

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By Douglas Fairbanks (1926)

First technicolor film

54
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Universal City

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Longest lasting studio

Carl Lammle

55
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Paramount

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Owner: Adolf Zukor

56
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Universal

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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
57
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RKO

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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
58
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Warner Brothers

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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
59
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Vitaphone

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Sound-on-disk system
Warner Brothers (1926-31)
Last analog sound on disk system which was widely used and commercially successful
60
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Fox Movietone News

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1928-63
A newsreel in the US
Produced silent news reels

61
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Sound-on-film

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Sound that is on the strip of film itself, where light reads the sound waves on the strip

62
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Western Electric

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Sound recording company
Worked with Warner Brothers
Sound on film vs vitaphone a sound on disk

63
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Fox Studios

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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

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Vertically integrated
Many theatres
1922- radio
Signed w/ WE

65
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Vertical Integration

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Monopolistic practice where you own everything (execution, distribution, exhibition spaces)

66
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1920s Big Three & Little Five

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All three vertically integrated
Paramount- Publix
Lowe’s/ MGM
First National

Fox
Universal
Warner Brothers
Producer’s Distributing Co
Film Booking Office
67
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1930s Big Five & Little Three

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Big Five (vertically integrated)
Paramount
Warner Brothers
Fox
RKO
Lowe’s/ MGM

Little Three
Columbia
United Artists
Universal

68
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MPPDA

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Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (1922)
Hays Code- censorship
A way to keep Hollywood Financially stable

69
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Will Hayes

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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
70
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Abel Gance

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French Director

La Roue