Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema[edit]
Introduction
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg_ Telling a lie to tell the truth.
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- 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
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- 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. Flemingand Edwin S. Porter
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
Notes, Episode one, taken from Wikipedia website
Ideas drive cinema with it’s inspiration in storytelling.
Edison had a hunch that cinima was a dark room with light. Lumere factory was where the first movie was shot. Audiances got bored with the same old thing. Cinema started experimenting more.
Parrelell editing is happening at the same time. Used for suspense and build tension.
Reverse angle shot made cameraman free to shoot at any angle. Made actors the ones that were being filmed, rather then just the set.
Florence Lawrence was the first movie star. Sycology became a driving force from the movie star.
Beniam Christansan Experimented with light. One of the two men that helped form hollywood. Allowed to break the law with filmmaking.
The hundred eighty degree rule makes the audiance believe the characters are interacting with each other and the set.
Hollywwod became a magent for people who could’nt find work. Lot’s more were excepted.
Griffith conveyed emotion with cinematogrophy. Praised the Klu Klux Klan with the emotions of film. Racism was seen all over movies, causing black audiance’s members to be attacked at clubs and the Klan’s membership expanding.