Eadwerd Muybridge(1) correct answers -Set up 12 cameras to take pictures of horse at different times, motion studies
-pre-cinematic toy/device
Etienne Jules Marey(2) correct answers -Inspired by Muybridge, he made photographic gun 1882, capable of taking 12 consecutive frames per second.
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Eadwerd Muybridge(1) correct answers -Set up 12 cameras to take pictures of horse at different
times, motion studies
-pre-cinematic toy/device
Etienne Jules Marey(2) correct answers -Inspired by Muybridge, he made photographic gun
1882, capable of taking 12 consecutive frames per second.
-pre-cinematic toy/device
Thomas Edison(3) correct answers -American inventor who developed many devices such as the
phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
-Work has no depth
-Movement was very horozontal
-Kinectograph: camera
-Kinectscope: Single person viewing
-Black Maria Studio
-Took credit for vita-scope(projector)
Auguste and Louis Lumiere(4) correct answers -cinematograph (1895) took Edison's idea and
improved it, camera is lighter, hand cranked, and a developer and projector.
-filmed everyday activities and people at work. Shot on location and outside
-Earliest film makers in history. Made Actuality Films
-Were credited with world's 1st public film screening on December 28,1895
-Filmed travel logs (actualities in other countries)
-Depth and movement/diagonals
-"Leaving the Factory", "Arrival of a Train", "Card Party", "Baby's Meal", "The Sprinkler
Sprinkled"
Georges Melies(5) correct answers -"A Trip to the Moon" 1902. becomes first film artist- uses
movies to tell a story
-Known for development of narrative cinema. Wasn't concerned with technology, just the story.
Was a professional magician who often acted in his own films which had a storyline- just filled
the space in between magic tricks. Developed first theater in the world for movie industry--
Theater Robert Houdin. One of the most important early directors. A Trip to The Moon--1st full
length film. Designed and constructed sets on canvas flats. Films involved sophisticated stop
motion effects. Ex: people vanishing
-Trick films, spectacles, magic, big monsters, set design, elaborate
-Melies had to design his own camera because Lumiere Brothers wouldn't sell it to him
-Star Films
-single POV, very theatrical
-long takes
-fade in, fade outs, dissolves
, -Pioneer of modern film language
-Saw the visual potential of motion pictures
-Effective use of editing (continuity editing)
-Innovative camera work
-Used actors, costumes, sets, stages
-Variety in camera placement
-Used panning shots
-Life of the American firemen
-Cross-cut between stock footage(Edison's) and his own
-Saw the unit of film as a shot, not a scene
Edison short film program correct answers -played in a little box you looked into (individual)
-stereotypes (butterfly dancing women)
-no depth
-staged re-enactments
Lumiere short film program correct answers -played for audiences in fairs, amusement parks,
vaudeville, cafes, vaudeville during intermission (presented to audience)
-stereotype (man smoking opium)
-depth
-staged re-enactments
Modernity correct answers A term encompassing the forms of social organization that
characterize industrialized societies, including the decline of tradition, an increase in
individualism, and a belief in progress, technology, and science.
Transportation correct answers The world is getting smaller because we can see more without
going far!
cinema of attractions correct answers -It directly interacts the viewers with the images they see,
stimulating on a level that is purely exhibitionist; Many early filmmakers were still discovering
the capabilities of film, aiding them in focusing on what they could show instead of what they
could tell.
-Lumiere(actuality) and Meilies(fantasy)
DW Griffith correct answers -Groundbreaking American film director
-Directed "The Birth of a Nation"
-American Civil War
-Southern POV
-Clip with white girl running away from black man
-"Intolerance"-defense film of his making of "Birth of a Nation"
-Four different plots
-complicated and solem
-had a manichean view
-"Birth of a Nation" brought in a high class of people because it was more expensive
-Viewed in a theater palace
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