Introduction

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • pause in story , small squares framing people, classical
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
  • guys in mess, sees trouble/effection in bubbles
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • characters looking in bubbles to show his reflection/troubles
• The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
  • characters racing through city

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
  • shot in the dark with light
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • To show groups of people
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
  • one of the first movies shot, light shadow being shown over building
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
• Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
  • invent flash backs
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
  • flashbacks of when one were happy or sad
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
  • to make a man appear/disappear
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
  • moon rises over city
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
  • 1st to film in front of train, phantom ride
• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • film phantom ride to show jews going to camps
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • camera zooms through ,out of body experience
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
  • show cut between wide and close, close up born
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • close up showing tragedy of dying women
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
  • close up of eyes, to show realization of murder
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
  • film using wide screen

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

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • cuts to different scene, between scenes, following story, felt concern for actress
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
  • jump editing, double exposure
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
• The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le
  • Reverse angle shot, filming from any angle
• Bargy and André Calmettes
• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • filming back facing camera
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
  • actors can be more sexual
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
  • psychology became driving force for film
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • cross cutting, photography
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • witch crafts, effects complex, light source used
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • naturalism and grace
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • stories within stories, blue light, moods within moods, shows separation of body and soul
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • youth and glamor
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
  • feature length, outside light
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
  • eyes matching from cuts, show connection between actors, 180 degree line
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • 180 degree rule
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
  • 1st women to direct film
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
  • sideways pov shot, split screen all in same moment
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • sand blowing in wind, sand blows away showing corpse
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
  • show wind in trees
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • visual softness, punktom,
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • visual softness, back lighting to make actor stand out
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • outdoors
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
  • moving dolly shots
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • violence scenes were shown in blue and fancy outfits, cutting between time periods
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
  • 1st great Japanese film