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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
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
  • Uses bubbles, reflection
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Uses bubbles to show a character’s troubles.
• The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin

Images and ideas drive filmmaking not money.

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
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Sewing machine, one of the first projectors. He filmed everyday workers at his factory. Not enough. They wanted to show their creations to groups.
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
  • Said to have unnerved the audience.
• 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
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Camera jammed, innovation by accident. The creation of special effects.
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Astonished people
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
  • One of the first to film from the front of a train, “the phantom ride”.
• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • phantom ride.
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
  • One of the first close ups, on a kitten!
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • Close ups, give sense of movement and tragedy, dead women during chaos
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
  • Boxing Match, created a broader image for action. Widescreen cinema was born.

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

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • Editing, recutting film to show the story. Now could show flow of the story.
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
  • shot a scene with double exposure, like he was in a dream, out of body experience.
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
  • Filming “meanwhile” not and then.
• 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
  • first film with characters turning their back to the camera. This led to the reverse angle shot.

Florence Lawrence – the first movie star

• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
  • Hollywood adds luxury to film
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Crosscutting and gorgeous photography
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • about witchcraft, multiple light sources, standing ovation.
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Naturalism and grace.
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Multilayered film, stories within the story. Death followed by exposure, character becomes ghost surrounded by ghostly figures.
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Glamour
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
  • The first feature length movie, filmed in Australia
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
  • First Hollywood feature. Eyes match across cut. New 180 degree rule.
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • Uses 180 degree rule, shows the importance of the rule.
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
  • Alice GB one of the first directors. She created cinematic arch films.
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
  • An innovative director, uses a remarkable sideways pov shot, and a split screen.
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Use of sand + wind to show fear cut like a thriller.
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
  • painted skyline
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Airless
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • visual softness, realness
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Visual softness, actors stand out against background
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • showed the power of cinema and its danger, epic and intimate
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
  • moving dolly shots
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • 3 and a half hours long! Different storylines. Used color to show the different storylines. Dolly on a crane!
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
  • two storylines intertwine which come together. The first great Japanese film.