Introduction

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • Film-making is lies to tell the truth
• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Film Can be an empathy machine
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
  • Romantic Films are not generally classical
  • Japan films are classical
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Japan films are classical
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Many Films Take Inspiration From Each other
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
• 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
  • old cinema was too private
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • one of the first films that the lumiers shot
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
  • unnerved the audience
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy
• Dickson or William Heise
  • Films can make us want to be different people
• Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Flemingand Edwin S. Porter
  • The first cut happened by accident in this film
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Had a special effects team
  • French revolution helped film
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • used a phantom ride, to show an out of body experience
• 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
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
  • close ups help the audience emotionally identify with the film
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
  • used a wide lense, first one to use it

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

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • used a cut
  • made chase sequences possible
  • first to use continuity cutting
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
  • used double exposure and lots of special effects
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
  • used more 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
• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • used a reverse angle shot
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • People really cared about the actors
  • Florence Lorence was the first movie star until she killed herself
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
  • used lots of costumes
  • public loved the stars
  • showed stars faces more clearly
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • used light techniques
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • had multiple light sources
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • It was a multilayered camera
  • used exposure
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • showed youth and glamour, actors were supposed to look good
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
  • The first feature length film
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
  • The first Hollywood feature
  • eye contact means connect emotionally
  • people facing towards opposite sides of camera mean facing to each other
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • 180 shot rule means looking at each other
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
  • film was very female in the 1910s
  • a dramatic arc film
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
  • uses a sideways pov shot
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • uses metaphors in this film
  • films allow people to see the outer world
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
  • said that cinema should show the wind in the trees
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Griffith brought the wind to cinema
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • unplanned things help show realness
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • showed racism
  • was a racism movie
  • showed black people as worse
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
  • uses unique lens techniques to show character
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
  • uses dolly shows
  • uses elephants to suggest film
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • about loves struggle throughout history
  • inter cut story lines
  • cuts meant look different events have the same theme
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
  • two storylines intertwine
  • come together near the end of the movie
  • the first great Japanese film