Birth of the Cinema
Introduction
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- meant to make the audience feel like they are there
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- little lighting tricks can create huge emotion
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- lots of lines and boxes create an emotional strain in the scene
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- looking into bubbles can be reflective
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- people looking into bubbles see their own problems and some other, bigger meaning
- The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- first film shot by Lumiere, short documentary
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- one of the first showed films in a theater
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
- Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Flemingand Edwin S. Porter
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- close ups created when a director wanted to see the whole face of a cat closely
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- phantom ride created when someone put a camera on the from of a train
- used to show tracks where jews were taken to camps
- used in space odyssey to show them moving through space
- phantom ride created when someone put a camera on the from of a train
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
- widescreen cinema first used to film a whole boxing match in one frame
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- cuts are created to show what happened next (continuity editing)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- uses lots of cuts to make a joke film
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- cuts used to show what happens at the same time (parallel editing)
- The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
- reverse angle shots gave directors idea to put the camera in the action
- actors held more significance to the film than the set
- Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- the first movie star, she was in a death scene that people really believed
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- costume gained importance,
- every time a star rose from cinema they learned new techniques from it
- star system became the driving force of cinema, especially in america
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- first jump cut happened by accident, someone’s camera jammed and started again