Question | Answer |
What is an auteur? | A director who also writes and edits their films. |
What did Edison's employee, Dickson, invent? | Kinetograph (camera) & Kinetoscope (viewer) |
What is The Black Maria? | Edison's "film factory." |
What did the Lumiere Brothers invent? | Cinematograph, which is a portable camera AND projector. |
When is the birthday of the movies? | December 28th, 1895. |
What did Edison buy to compete with the cinematograph? | Vitascope. |
What is visual symbolism? | Something physical that stands for or represents something that can't be seen. |
Who is the father of special effects? | Melies. |
What is cross-cutting? | The edit between two or more separate actions in order to create the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. |
What is continutiy? | The illusion that action continues across edits. |
What is objective camera? | Camera that doesn't have any action coming towards it. Stationary. |
What is subjective camera? | Camera with action coming toward or away. |
What are nickelodeons? | Store front theaters. |
What are vaudeville houses? | Middle/low class entertainment style variety shows. |
What is the Motion Picture Patents Company? | "The Trust." Aimed to control the industry. Headed by Edison. |
Who were the group of politicians, church leaders, and other people who disliked the movies? | Progressives. |
What are the 3 interacting forces that made the movies seem bad? Movie theaters in general. | Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration. |
What did the movie industry do to stop progressives complains? | Started The National Board of Review in 1909. |
What decade is the most important decade in film? | 1920s. |
Who formed United Artists? | Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks, and Griffith in 1919. |
Who were the pioneers of Slapstick comedy? | Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett? |
Who are the difference between Sennett and Chaplin's forms of comedy? | Sennett's characters had no emotions while Chaplin's did. |
What is the studio system? | A highly departmentalized factor style mode of production. |
What is vertical integration? | When one company controls all aspects of a given industry. |
What is block booking? | Forcing an independent theater owner to buy a block of awful films, just so they get the one that they want. |
What is a movie palace? | 1 building that holds 2000-5000 people to show movies. |
What is modernism? | An art movement including literature, painting, and film. Trying to make things new. |
What are the 3 factors that led to progressives forcing 2nd self-regulation efforts? | The Fatty Arbuckle Scandals, Anti-Semitism, Changing Roles of Women. |
What is the MPPDA? | Motion Picture Producers and Distribution of America. Replaced Nation Board of Review in 1922. |
What are the two factors that influence German Expressionism? | Exaggeration & Distortion. |
What is mise en-scene? | Arrangement of all visual elements in front of the camera. |
What ended German Expressionism? | Hitler. |
What did French Experimentalists focus on? | Camera work and optical devices. |
What did the Russians focus on? | Editing (Montage) |
What is formalism? | Emphasizes on style and technique rather than character/story. |
What movie did Melies direct & with what camera? | Trip to The Moon 1902, objective camera. |
What movie did Porter direct & with what camera? | The Great Train Robbery, subjective camera. |