History of Film Final Exam

extra in BOAN, worked way through film industry, made film Greed, worked with Griffith

Welles after Kane

saves the musical because of his choreography

Most European, less oversight, Mac West, Marks Brothers,

Production Code Administration rules

smallest of major, King Kong, Astaire and Rogers, eventually folds

what allows for widening of screen

problems with early sound

directed two of the most infamous propaganda films for the Nazis (clip from Triumph of the Will)

influence of Citizen Kane

the new Gangster films

42 reel film that was brought down to 9, scene in the desert that's tinted yellow

invented by 3 Germans, had sound waves converted into light waves placed on film and back to sound when projected

minor studios

after forming RKO, RCA creates this

directed Rear Window

created by Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor

means of self-censorship

Use of symbolic detail such as a meaningful glance to signify sexual activity

During WWII in Italy

Anarchistic comedies

most successful direction of the 1920's made most lavish productions

Conversion of color was more common in

developed a sound on film system

Heyes code made to police themselves, mainly Warner Bros, clips with James Cagney

allows for a combination of colors

new genres thanks to talkies

directed by Nicholas Ray, about kids and Plato

,2 cameras connected, about the same distance apart as the human eye, Creature of the Black Lagoon is an example

Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Modern Times, more a distributor

Judy Garland, Melodramas, musicals, biggest studio with 1 film a week

Broadway adaptations kill

one of Hitler's right hand men and worked on Reich Film Chambers and Reich Cinema Law

Post WWII US

Hollywoodized the story of people's lives

used the Tri-Ergon sound system

used two strip and three strip process, invested in by Walt Disney

fast talking, multiple papers, beat other competition

Shirley Temple, best special effects, hard glassy surface films

kept alive with horror films, made Bride of Frankenstien, Deanna Durbin carries them through

tap dancing in the outdoor structure

pulled from narrative structure, unchained camera, directed CItizen Kane, had War of the Worlds radio broadcast

what hailed back to Polyvision?

allowed the amplification of radio system, created by Lee de Forest

science fiction films

problems with sound on cylinder methods

positives of film strip are dipped into dye, but only the black-silver portions would pick up the color

French director La Grande Illusion, long takes and the deep focus shot

the anti-communist films

reasons box office profits durning the war was the best in Hollywood history

Post-War Genres

known for screwballs, Frank Capra, blondies, His Girl Friday, lead by Harry Cohn

created by Western Electric, Warner Bros leases the system out

first score for a film was written by

non-animorphic widescreen processes

three camera system linked together to film wider span than one camera would

Avante-Garde Impressionalism

Poverty Row Studios (or b-studios) known for

themes for WWII as suggested by the US government

each frame of the film has a portion colored by hand

wired theathers for sound in 1932

Italian Neo-Realism

clip of women dancing in the water

film noir, clip from Bringing Up Baby, westerns, screwball comedies

Grapes of Wrath, sentimental, The Quiet Man, monument valley

is the blend of Iyricism and realism

The Big Five Studios

Edison's methods for sound and picture to be paired together, sounds on cylinder systems

the Cinematograph Film Act of 1927

German, known for comedies in a sophisticated nature

first movie to win all awards, is a screwball comedy

blind man knocks over class in store

studio of the working class, depession era films, musicals, gangsters

clip of sister showing up actually being a wife filing for divorce, Virginia Club

director of The Blue Angel, german filmmaker