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Invention and Innovation Notecards
20 Cards in this Set
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Film Started as a ___________
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Business
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"Auteur Theory"
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The idea that the best films result from the clear artistic vision of a single person who takes control of / responsibility for the entire film
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Movies resulted from a combination of what three things?
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1) Popular/Public Entertainments
2)Physiological Phenomena
3)Technological Developments
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Muybridge
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Used multiple camera triggered by strings as a horse ran to capture movement
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Marey
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First to use a single camera to shoot multiple pictures
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Edison
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A businessman that developed motion pictures to sell his phonograph
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Dickson
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Edison employee who invented the kinetograph and the kinetoscope, and made 20 second films to view in parlors
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Black Maria
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"First Movie Studio" : built on a turn table so that when the roof is opened it can follow the sun and film can be shot to increase mass production
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Lumiere Brothers
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French brothers that unveiled the cinematograph in 1894 and 1895 which is a camera AND a projector
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"Birthday of the Movies"
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December 28, 1895
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Vitascope
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Edison buys this projector from Armat and debuts April 1986
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Objective Camera
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To be separated/removed; no movement toward or away from scene; Used by Edison
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Subjective Camera
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Movement either toward, away, or both from scene; Used by Lumiere Bros
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Editing
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Common practice as of 1902-1903; allows for narration
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George Melies
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"Movie Magician"; "Father of Special Effects"; Pioneered art direction and diffused lighting; Uses objective camera
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Porter
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Pioneer in:
1) Continuity
2) Cross-cutting
3) Subjective Camera
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Continuity
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The illusion that action "continues" across edits
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Cross-cutting
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Editing back and forth between two or more action between two or more locations to create the illusion that the actions are happening simultaneously
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Vaudeville Houses
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Primarily a stage theater that puts on variety shows for mostly lower class people
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the Motion Picture Patents Company
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aka "the Trust" ; formed in 1908 from all the major film companies as an attempt at economic/industrial control
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