20th Century Film Midterm

• A filmmaker whose individual
• style and complete control over all elements of
• production give a film its personal and unique stamp.

• In optics, a diaphragm
• is a thin opaque structure with an opening (aperture) at its center. The role of the diaphragm is
• to stop the passage of light, except for the light passing through the aperture.

• Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an
• afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second
• on the retina.

• (A) Constructivist belief that
• factors composing the individual image can be considered as dynamic elements
• flung together in tense juxtaposition (B) Conflicts within the frame

a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story

• The term studio system
• refers to the practice of large motion picture studios (a)
• producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with
• creative personnel under often long-term contract

• the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
• the setting or surroundings of an event or action.

• everything in the scene contributes to overall
• effect, set design

• A category of artistic composition, as in music or
• literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Extremely Up Close

• A panoramic view of an exterior location
• photographed from a considerable distance, often as far as a quarter-mile away.

The kinescope was the first motion picture camera. It was invented by Thomas Edison and his assistant, William Dickson, and patented in 1891.

was a Frenchillusionist and filmmakerfamous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliestdays of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects

multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour inhis work.

American

1915 The Birth of a Nation

• story of the civil war in the view point of the
• confederacy

• tells the story of two families one from the
• north (Stonemann) and the other from the south ( Camaroon)

KKK

• § Film
• revived the KKK affect

Premiered at exclusive theaters for $75c - $2

first full length future film

Historical epic

Full-length feature film

• Iris, cross-cutting, montage, boom shot,
• tracking shots, blocking, pans, tilts

Tradition, family, evils of miscegenation

• A dark, expression experiences, trans forming
• reality

• Realism is distorted in order to communicate an
• inner vision/emotion/ experience

• Sense of the dark, dehumanizing side of wealth,
• technology, urbanism

Rise of power of celeberties

consisting of official pieces of written, printed, or other matter

(of a movie, a television or radio program, or photography) usingpictures or interviews with people involved in real events to provide afactual record or report

1895 developed a cinematographe

can shoot, print and project

weighted 16lbs

actualities- things that just happen

Flashback

The Unusual Suspect

Expressionism directly to the horror genre and to films depicting a darker side of the psyche.

mise-en-scene, primarily in the area of set design.

Gaumont- inventor

French, started out as an assistant

1970 revival –Feminist write her memoir

narrative drama

directing= cripts, actors rehearsing, theatre

use sound tinted prints