Story of Film – Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema

“Film History Museum, Ahead on Your Left” by Thomas Hawk is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

•  (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
• a movie about the war, made on a nice beach in Irland
• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
• white light shows how she needs to help the land/useing lighting to tell story
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
• a studio set black and white film that shows romance
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• a classic japenesse film with gaps and not a fast romantic classsical movie
• ideas drive films and makes the film world go
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
• these films use bubbles to show stress
• The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
• uses america action to dramacise things

• 1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema

movies are made in many different areas and all have different orgin stories no matter if it is in America or an other country

light matters in cinema

very time machine like to know how humans have advanced so much

france was very into and amazed with film (france had one of the 1st female directors)

• Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
• would just record the roads
• The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
• a couple kissing in a tiny private box
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
• a documentrie about everyday life and was the 1st films to be made
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
• one of the 1st public movies and the lighting tricked people into thinking the train was going to hit them
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
• Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
• both used dance
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
• used sad situations or show how things happen to feel like reality
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
• used a trick/illustion
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
• used scary make up was good with effects
• 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
• all showed fantom rides
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
• first close up!!
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
• close up showed emotion and sadness in film
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
• uses close ups to show relization and drama
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
• filmed a boxing match and used wide screen (first 1)

• 1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

film is used to express a launguge of ideas and expression

editing is an important part of film to show smooth transitions and fragments and has action replay

the star system/fame and used scycology to make people wanted to watch the film

hollywood is big and used for movies because it is sunny and nice weather and in cali the copy wright laws are way less strict then the laws on the east side of the country

used cuts that face the same way and the camera was at an 180 degree line to leave the camera by

woman where big important part of the films from acting producing and screen writing

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
• shows street action and then the same action from inside the house
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
• used a cut
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
• uses cuts and has them in consistant time
• 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 backs to camera and could use a reverse camera shot (big in theater)
• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• she was not identafied and the actress faked death
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• very famouse actress and was sexual in her film
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
• have nothing for these
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
• cross cutting and showing a film version of dreams
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
• used scar tatics and made a misterious movie
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
• have no notes besides has naturlism
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
• used multi layered, stories in stories, and used blue light showed character out of body
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• made youth and glamar and used shadow and crazy day time outfits with it looking natural
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
• a man looks around and sees a pretty woman to know if he is going to do the deed
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
• used the wrong side to show of death
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
• alice would actually made some dramatic art films (that showed emotion)
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
• she would play in her films/used a new POV shot from the top of a mans head and used the side mirror shot that help, her whole camera positions where amazing showing how dramatic scenes
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
• showed things woman go through
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
• was airless n stagey
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
• has visual softness and showed natural detains
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
• he liked seeing wind through trees
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
• for both movies they used nature and mixed epic with intamite and again griffen really wanted to make the nature important to the film
• the film makers started to make black people a narritive to look slobby and dirt
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• the film makers started to make black people a narritive to look slobby and
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
• talked about love historie and used different color tones from fun bubly pink to sad is dark orange or brown rich to blue
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
• used color
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
• used 2 story lines into 1