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What did Edison invent?
- phonograph
- kinetoscope
- vitagraph
- vitascope
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What is a phonograph?
records sound and plays back. 
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What is a kinetoscope?
Kinetoscope parlors, setup for individual viewing through the small window on a cabinet.
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What is a cinematograph?
- hand cranked camera
- -films
- -projects
- -develops
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What is a vitagraph?
portable camera invented by Edison
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What is a vitascope?
early film projector
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DW Griffith
- -The Great Train Robbery
- -A Corner in Wheat
- -An Unseen Enemy
- -Birth of a Nation (racism)
- -depth filming, cross-cutting
- -master scene technique (shooting one scene in multiple depths)
- -interior and exterior shots
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Georges Melies
- A Trip to the Moon
- -magician/trick films
- -very theatrical with sets and costumes
- -introduced fantasy worlds
- -scifi, imagination
- -full frame shots
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Lillian Gish
-ice glaciers/waterfall actress
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Fairbanks
ALL AMERICAN actor, honest, clean shaven, altered womens view on american men
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Buster Keaton
- mechanical comedy
- -brick wall falling scene
- -Hotel water scene
- -improv Indian scene
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Matt Sennett
comedy actor and got chaplin his start
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Fatty Arbuckle
murder scandal, ended his career
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DeMille
- director of horror films
- -Dracula
- -psychological thrillers
- -Phantom of the Opera
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Lugosi, Chenery, Karloff
horror stars
- Cheney-phantom
- Karloff- frankenstein, werewolf man
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theta bara
first female hollywood sex symbol
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first sound movie
The Jazz Singer 1927
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