Introduction
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- white light contecing the young and old woman
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curti
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- hollywood is not classical japan is.
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- his troubles relfected in the bubbles of a spilt drink
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- visual ideas drive cinema
- 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
- what you need most for movies is light
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- usign a sewing machine he made one of the fist cameras.
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- One of the first films shot and shown
- Movies bacame a mirror of relality and a hammar.
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
- Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
- a broken camera was the first cut
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- First special effects director
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- the goverment funded film making
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- one of the fist to film from the front of a train the first tracking shot, the phantom ride
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- phantom ride creates a feeling of being out of body
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- The first close up was to show the detail of the cat.
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- the close up shows the real tragedy
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
- first wide screen film at 63mm wide
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- editing makes cinema
- The intecut makes more sense as the cuts follow the timeline of the story.
- Chase sequences were possible
- Continuity cutting
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- double exsposure
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- parellel 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
- one of the first films the actors turned their back
- reverse angle shot
- Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- florence lawrence one of the beggining film stars
- hype, fame tragedy
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- a drfeam draw on film
- Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- multiple light sources
- Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
- naturalism an dgrcae
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
- stories whithen stores, tinted blue, complex story
- Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
- first feature length film
- The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
- first hollywood feature
- eyes matching acoss cuts
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
- Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
- first female film director
- half of films until 1925 were written by woman
- first dramatic arch
- split screen, sideways point of view shot
- chase scene using car mirror
- Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
- The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
- as films are coming out people can see new worlds, new fashion
- Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
- he said film needed to show the wind in the trees, not stagey
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- billy bitzer liked softening the edges of film
- visual softness
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- racism is being promoted
- Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
- Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- moving dolly ahots
- using elephants to suggest scale
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
- two storylines intertwine
- Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
- the first great japanese film