Test 1 Flashcards
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Flicker fusion
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Persistence of vision
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Persistence of vision
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Flicker fusion
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Phi phenomenon
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Apparent motion
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Apparent motion
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Phi phenomenon
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What is persistence of vision?
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The theory that an afterimage stays in the retina for 1/25 of a second; reason for motion perception
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What is flicker fusion?
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Number of frames per second (16) required to create motion
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Daguerre
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First photographs; father of photography
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Gustave Courbet
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Rejected romanticism and classicism
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Degas and Renoir
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Followed Courbet’s example; French impressionists used photos as documents to capture impressions and provide painting models
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Eadweard Muybridge
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Horse
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Etienne-Jules Marey
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Birds
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Who made the camera gun?
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Etienne-Jules Marey
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What film did the camera gun use?
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First glass plate, then paper rolls
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Hannibal Goodwin
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Invents celluloid and sells it to Edison
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What is celluloid?
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Flexible and durable film stock; nitrate/acetate base with an emulsion of gelatin
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What is the kinetograph/kinetoscope?
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Unprojected images in motion
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W. L. Dickson
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Right hand man of Edison before leaving for Biograph; made kinetoscope
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Where does Edison produce his films?
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Black Maria in NJ
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What does Edison create for the public?
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Peep show parlors
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How does the Lumiere camera work?
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Hand cranked, portable and converts to projector
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Gabriel Verte
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Films throughout world with Lumiere camera
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Georges Melies
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Magician known for making special effects in film; art background
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Film that Georges Melies is known for?
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A Trip to the Moon
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A Trip to the Moon (techniques)
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Extended story, special effects, double exposure, dissolves, no editing, unmoving camera
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Edwin S. Porter
Edison's right hand man after Dickson; not much art background
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What films is Porter most known for?
Life of an American Fireman and Great Train Robbery, The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
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The significance of Great Train Robbery
First western; camera movement
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How many one reelers in a nickelodeon?
6
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How many nickelodeons in US by 1909?
8000
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David Wark Griffith
Actor who became a writer and director as a result of Nickelodeon demand
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Billy Bitzer
Cameraman who forms partnership with Griffith
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What are the Lumiere short films?
Employees Leaving Lumiere Factory, Arrival of a Train at the Station, Baby's Lunch, Sprinkler Sprinkled, Boat Leaving the Harbor
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What is the name of the Lumiere camera?
Cinematograph
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Where was the first cinematograph made?
Factory in Lyons
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Where were the Lumiere films first shown to the public?
The basement of the Grand Cafe, on Boulevard des Capucines
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What big event were the Lumiere films shown at? Where?
The Paris Exposition at the Galerie des Machines
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How big was the screen at the Paris Exhibition? What treatment did the screen's material get?
24 meters high and 30 meters wide; the material had to be wetted
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What films was D. W. Griffith famous for?
The Adventures of Dolly, The Lonely Villa, A Corner in Wheat, Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms
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Who made 2 films a week and for who?
Griffith for Biograph
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What are the famous scenes in Birth of a Nation?
Little Colonel comes home, assassination of Lincoln, Gus's pursuit of pet sister and his trial
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Who were the famous actors in Birth of a Nation?
Lilian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
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What is melodrama in film?
Films with obvious good and bad characters that create an emotional impact; depicts how the world ought to be
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What book was Birth of a Nation based on?
The Clansman
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What view of history did Birth of a Nation have?
Foundationalist
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What was the result of Birth of a Nation?
Success, huge uproar, KKK revival
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Where does melodrama derive from?
Greek melos (song, music)
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Who wrote Pygmalion?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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What is melodrama on stage?
Alternation between words and music; music fills in emotions when the actor isn't speaking, or to increase emotional impact
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What is it called when something helps the hero when all hope is lost?
Deus ex machina
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What are examples of melodrama?
Birth of a Nation, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ben Hur, Star Wars
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Who decided that the shot was more basic than the scene?
Griffith
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Who used most shot experimentation?
Griffith
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What are serial films?
Films with stories that spanned multiple episodes
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What is film d'art?
Film versions of successful plays with well known players
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What early films was Edison most known for?
Fun in a Chinese Laundry, The Kiss
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Who originally was to direct Caligari?
Fritz Lang
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Who directed Caligari?
Robert Wiene
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What films did F. W. Murnau make?
Nosferatu, The Last Laugh
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Freeburg
Photoplay, crowd and public, writer is most important, star and star image, emotional and visual more important than intellectual
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What is MPPC? Who formed it?
Motion Picture Patents Company; Edison; a trust between major American film companies
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What became of MPPC?
Declared illegal and broken up
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Where is MPPC dominant?
Based in NYC; much competition from Europe
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What are the benefits of having a studio system in LA?
Little abroad competition, bigger theaters and star system
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What pressures were in Chaplin?
To join the war as a soldier
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Where did Chaplin get his start?
Vaudeville
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Who discovered Chaplin? Who did he leave them for?
Discovered by Sennett and then left for Essany
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Which two places did Chaplin work at?
Mutual and then First National
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Charlie Chaplin
Comedian from Britain who is the highest paid entertainer in history
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Who does Chaplin form UA with?
Pickford, Fairbanks and Griffith
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What was Chaplin's first feature?
The Kid
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What were Chaplin's most famous works?
The Cure, The Immigrant, Shoulder Arms, Easy Street, The Tramp, The Bond
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How did Chaplin help the war effort?
He spoke at Liberty Loan Drives to encourage people to buy bonds and made films for the soldiers to watch
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What's the difference between the crowd and the public?
The crowd is single minded and temporary while the public is many minded and permanent
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Does film exist for the crowd or the public?
The crowd
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What are the three classes of appeal? According to who?
Mainly visual and emotional, then there's a bit of intellectual; Freeburg
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How do you capture the emotion of a crowd?
Through the actor or "star"
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What makes up intellectual appeal?
Satisfaction of curiosity, comic value, mental suspense
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What was the film industry collectivized by the German government?
Universum Film Aktien-Gesellschaft (UFA)
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Who were the famous German Expressionists?
Pommer, Murnau, Mayer, Freund, Jannings, Veidt, Lang
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What film did Lang make in Germany?
Metropolis
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What are the four distinguished German film groups?
Pageants, expressionist horror, kammerspiel, street films
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What does Kammerspiel mean?
Chamber-play
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What are examples of expressionist horror films?
Caligari and The Golem
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Who made pageants?
Lubitsch and Lang
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What is the purpose of expressionism?
Images evoke psychological ways of being, state of mind; a move away from Impressionism
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What was realism rooted in?
Romantic poetry
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What were expressionist paintings like? Who painted them?
Large blocks of bright colors; Kandinsky, Marc, Feininger
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Who worked in theater with Max Reinhardt?
Murnau, Jannings, Veidt
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What is the total, consistent work of art?
Weltanschauung
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What is the name of the new realism of 20's German artists?
Neue Sachlichkeit
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Who made the films King Kong, Grass and Chang?
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
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What film did Flaherty make?
Nanook
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What films did Cooper and Schoedsack make?
Grass, King Kong, Chang
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What is Chang about?
Tigers that kill one out of every three adults in a small town
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What is Grass about?
Follows a tribe with their livestock as they travel to higher pastures for the summer
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What is a montage?
Editing that emphasizes the juxtaposition of shots rather than invisible progression of narrative
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What is a motif?
Something in a film that reappears throughout to create a definite and noticeable pattern; symbolic
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What is cross cutting?
Editing that often cuts between two simultaneously occurring events
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What is Neue Sachlichkeit?
Branched from street film; shows consequences of males leaving home for pleasure
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What is street film?
Male protagonist leaves home to satisfy urge for excitement and sensual pleasure
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What was a major German contribution to film?
Use of moving camera
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What is an example of subjective camera?
The tipsy camera movement in The Last Laugh when the main character is drunk
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What is an example of Kammerspielfilm?
The Last Laugh
