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Silent Films Flashcards

1
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Name 8

Buster Keaton films?

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One week 
The Scare crow
Cops 
The High Sign
Seven chance 
The General 
Neighbours
The cook with Fatty Arbuckle
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Who were the Pioneers of the silent film movement?

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Buster Keaton & Fatty Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd

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What devices reflect the silent film movement?

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Expressionist mise en scene
Cinematography
Realist concepts ~ comments on America.
Technology

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What film does Buster Keaton break the four wall?

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One Week
Long shot · Sybil ~ bath ~ picks up soap. Director covers camera ~ hand. Sybil gestures thank you.
= awareness of the audience ~ blending modes.

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In Buster Keaton’s silent film Cops, what concept does it adhere to?

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Realism = Los Angeles _ cheap. Real neighbourhood/neighbour’s.

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In Cops (1922) how does Keaton illustrate expressionism and what does it comment on?

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Hundreds of extras.
Sense of the media coverage on Fatty Arbuckle’s case.
Cultural self _ massive scandal rape and slaughter. Ostracised couldn’t recover even after _ innocence

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How does Keaton create a sense of surrealism in Cops 1922?

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Pairs expressionism + realism
Use of props an oversized ladder.
Balancing like a seesaw on a wooden fence.
Stunt crawls across the ladder smacks the coppers in the face.

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Why are Keaton’s stunts and slap stick comedy associated with Silent Films?

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Lack of cinematography devices

Lack of music each cinema would play live music to accompany the film.

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What devices did Silent Films use to enhance the passive spectators viewership?

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Deep focus
Long shot sequences
Iris shots

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What do the opening sequence of the Scarecrow (1920) comment on?

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Technological advancements of 20’s America.

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How did Scarecrow (1920) comment on America’s technological advancements?

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Constructed props.
Levers hanging from the ceiling = salt + pepper.
Napkin on a string at the side of the table.
Table top = sign what's home without without a mother.
Bookshelf fridge
Sink poured out into a pond for ducks.

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In Scarecrow (1920) what device adheres to André Bazin?

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Deep focus
Expressionism
Mise en scene
Stunts

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Who’s André Bazin and what was his theory?

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French film critic
Objective reality
Deep focus and lack of montage are linked to his belief that the interpretation of a film ot scene should be left to the spectator

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Where does Buster Keaton’s silent films lie in terms of André Bazin realist and expressionism?

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A blend of the two surrealism talks about what’s going on in America

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What was Keaton known for?

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Limited cinematography, sound ➕ editing

So long shots iris shots dialogue cards colour

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What did the 2 reelers allow Buster Keaton to do?

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Elaborate sets, props, extras, stunts and a fun and interesting narrative

17
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What did the introduction of 4 reelers do Buster keaton films?’

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Lacked expressionism

Showed the death of the iconic silent film movement

18
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What is Buster Keaton’s most famous film?

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The General

Only four reeler

19
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How is The General realist in form?

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Loss of aesthetic expressionism
Realist through creation of Spectatorship
Narrative

20
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How did Buster Keaton’s film The General differ from his other films?

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Larger lense
Wide angel shot
Close ups
Lack of aesthetic expression

21
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Which film has the fixed narrative of the Southern who is swept up in the civil war and who travels south by steam train?

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The General

22
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What was the visual metaphor in The General?

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The sequence of Sibyl stocking the train and she picks up a long piece of wood with a natural circle hole and she gestures to Keaton and he says to through it.
Illustrates the dismantling of the aesthetic qualities associated with film movement.
Iris shot

23
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What was Buster and what did he do?

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Auteur

Inspiration for many silent film movements

24
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What did studios usually do with Stars?

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Create personas for them.
Fatty Arbuckle - he hated name
Keaton persona based on stereotypes ans gender.
Was Keaton’s persona of a non-conforming man in 1920’s.

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How does Keaton reflect the stigma of lower class America in the medium shot of Keaton behind bars in Cops?

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Trapped inside the classist system unable to reach his love interest.
Zooms out and reveals gigantic gates with a big drive

26
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How does Buster Keaton’s Neighbours pay homage to to his theatrical upbringing?

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Vaudeville (1880’s-1930’s)
3 Keaton’s - was hit and thrown across stage when he was a child
Influenced his stunts ➕ slapstick.

27
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Analyse a sequence in Neighbours?

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BK’s father was in the film Joe.
Long shot sequence Joe pulling Busters head out of the drain.
Title card - ‘he’s my son and I’m the only one who can break his neck’
Life threatening stunts he sustained an injury from The General the water pipe knocking him off his feet to the tracks

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What film does BK parody the Ford advert Home Made 1919 and addresses the technological advancements?

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One Week
Medium shot - Newly wed couple building a portable home in 7 days
Long shot - ‘a for sale sign’ on the destroyed house.
Long shot sequence - keaton cutting a plank on top of the framework of the house cutting the part he was sat on and fell to the ground.
Long shot sequence.- cubist house comments of the popularity at the time

29
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How does the Scarecrow and 7 Chances present marriage?

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Not worth it.
Long shot sequence littered with cheesy iris shots - Sybil ➕ Keaton rival expressing glee for one another only to be snatched away by her father

30
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Analyse a long shot sequence in Keaton’s The High Sign?

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House spilt into 4 
Chased through windows 
Trap downs trap walls 
Reflects in modern society the influence on Cartoon 
Tom and Jerry and Tom Cat
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How does The General reflect the change of Silent films to Talkies?

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Dismantling of the Silent films through new 4 reelers. Lack of aesthetic expressionism.
Realist in every aspect
Two reeler 8 mili meter to 4 reeler 16 mili meters
Budget
More expressive acting a fixed narrative

32
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Films that changed the course of Silent films?

That seems to have made Buster Keaton have to conform?

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The Jazz Singer 1927 1st talkie
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
The Birth of Nation 1915 (D.W Griffith) Controversial.
All birthing a more modern approach to acting cinematography

33
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List the cast and crew of High Sign (1921)

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Director -  BK - Edward F Cline
Producer - Joseph M Schenck
Writer - BK Edward F Cline 
Starring - Buster Keaton
Cinematographer - Elgin Lessley 
Editor - Buster Keaton
Distributor - Metro Pictures 
Time 21 
Release date 12 April 1921
34
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List cast and crew of The Scarecrow 22/12/1920

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Director - BK Edward F Cline 
Producer - Joseph M Schenck
Writer Bk Edward F Cline 
Starring BK Joe Roberts Sybil
Cinematographer Elgin Lessley
Edited by Buster Keaton 
Distributor Metro pictures 
Time 19
35
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List The Cops cast and crew

11 March 1922?

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Distributor BK Edward F Cline 
Producer Joseph M Schenck
Writer BK Edward F Cline 
Starring BK virginia Fox joe 
Cinematographer Joseph M Schenck
Editor Elgin Lessley
Distributor first nation pictures inc
Time 18
36
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List cast and crew of One Week

1/ sep 1920

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Director - Buster Keaton Edward F Cline 
Producer - Charlie Chaplin Joseph M Schenck
Writer - Edward F Cline BK
Starring - BK Sybil 
Cinematographer - Elgin lessley
Editor BK
Distributor Bk Productions 
Time 19

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