Notes
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- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- Camera work made it feel like you where actually there.
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- white light used to contrast young and old.
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- too romantic to be classical in a true sense.
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- A square frame with smaller rectangles in it, a true classic film.
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- He sees his troubles reflected in bubbles of spilled drink.
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Using bubbles for a troubled person.
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- A character again sees his troubles in bubbles.
- The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
- The camera races through space like a bullet.
1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
- Town of leeds with circus acts.
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Used light in dark room to make a film, had to watch it through a tiny box.
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- One of if not the first motion picture.
- Shines light through sowing machine to move film for projector.
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- Unnerved audience thought train was coming at them.
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy
- Inspires people to be a princess.
- Dickson or William Heise
- Makes people want to be a hero.
- Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- Shows a strong man.
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
- Gives us an image bank to return to.
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès‘
- Jams camera makes it seem like people disappeared.
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- First special effects director made man in the moon.
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- One of the first to film from front of the train.
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- Filmed on same lines that took Jewish people to the gas chambers.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Camera seems to zoom through colored light of the cosmos.
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- One of the first closeups in cinema.
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- closeup of dead woman’s hand and hair falling off the rising bridge.
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- Looks into big closeup of the murderers eyes.
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
- Filmed boxing match with untraditional size of film
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- Cuts from street action to inside closer up action.
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- Used cuts to show world around him being replaced
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- Showing what happens in two places at once.
- 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
- Turned back to camera.
- Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- They only showed the back of the person.
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- First movie star.
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The first movie star was claimed to be dead but then appeared in this film.
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- Less censorship in Europe.
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- Luxury and costuming instead of sex.
- The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- A dream drawn on film.
- Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Multiple light sources to create complex effects.
- Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Naturalism and grace
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Stories within stories.
- Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Black feathers and latticed shadowing in a train.
- The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
- First feature length film.
- The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
- Eyes connect across the cut, making audience feel connection.
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
- It makes character look like they are looking at each other.
- Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
- One of the first stories with an arc.
- Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
- Triangle split screen.
- The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Expressive storyline.
- Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
- Painted skyline.
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Natural details like wind in trees.
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Lighting matches delicate acting.
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
- “understood the psychological intensity of a lense”
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Showed the danger of cinema.
- Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
- Experimented with the toxic scene from “The Birth of a Nation”
- Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- Moving dolly shots.
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Multiple storylines in different times in History.
- Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
- 2 storylines that come together in the end.