Notes
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Introduction
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- Battel scene used camera angles and sound effects used to make us feel present in the experience
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Scene of helpless old woman on street used to trigger empathy
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- Hollywood classic filmed on stuidio set, but too romantic to be classical
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Scene of cat in kitchen is a “pause in story”
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- First use of “bubble closeup”
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Another use of bubble closeup, nod to Carol Reed
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- ANOTHER use of bubble closeup, nod to both previous movies
- The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
- Scene of high stress car chase
1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
- Just a short of people walking on a bridge
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Cute scene of couple kissing
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- More advanced camera, called “clicking machine”
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- Projected film made audience feel that the train was coming at them
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
- Dancing movie with beautiful visuals
- Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- Showcased a strongman
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
- Black and white of people walking on the street
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- Used techniques to make objects appear and dissapear
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- Adventure short, theatrical style
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- Special effects shocked audience
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- One of the first directors to film the “phantom ride”
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- Documentary about the holocaust, “phantom ride” used to shoot train tracks to death camps
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Camera zooms through colors to give the viewer a cosmic experience
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- One of the first close ups used to show a cat eating
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Closeup of a tragedy during revolutionary efforts
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- Closeup to show an intense moment where a cowboy realizes he’s found the murderer he’s been searching for all of his life
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
- Used extra wide angle to film boxing match
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- One of the first films involving an editing sequence (firemen saving people from burning house)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- Scene using double exposure to show an out of body experience
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- Chaotic sequence of a horse loose on the street
- 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
- One of the first films in the reverse angles technique was used
- Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Used a risky shot of just the back of an actor’s head
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Actress known somewhat in the press, and then announced as dead
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Actress re-introduced, alive, which made the audience go crazy
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- One of the first movies where actors were allowed to be sensual
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- Extravagant movie that contributed to the rise of stardom within cinema
- The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Innovative work of light and editing
- Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Movie filmed in suburbs about witchcraft throughout the ages
- Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Made in Sweden’s first film studio
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Silent, melancholy storytelling
- Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Beautiful camera work with shadows and light
- The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
- Filmed in Australia, outdoors
- The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
- First Hollywood feature, moral conflict and “damsel in distress” trope began, using strategic camera angles to show a conversation/interaction
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
- More separate angles showing a conversation
- Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
- Poetic writing and striking visuals
- Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
- Lois is director and also plays lead, only woman to win two oscars for her writing
- The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
- About a woman living in a shack, with constant wind
- Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
- Painted skyline and editing
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Wind in trees
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Delicate light and visuals
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Had to improvise with ice floats
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Shocking visuals showed par of cinema and it’s danger
- Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
- Remake played with toxic scenes
- Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- Italian film using dolly shots
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Commentary on intolerance
- Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
- Two storylines intertwining that come together in the end