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What do moviesmean to you?

Entertainment? Art?

Usefulness?

What do moviessay about us?

Superbad

Camille

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What is your

favorite movie? What are the

best movies?

Singin in the Rain

American Film Institute's Best Films

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What makes a moviedifferent than a photo or a

video?

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Out of the Past

Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

The 300

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The Dark Knight & Bringing Up Baby

Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

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Casino Royale & Citizen Kane

Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

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Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

The Lord of the Rings

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Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories Pulp Fiction

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Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

Shane & Silence of the Lambs

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Color

Form

Depth Movement

Time

Space Stories

The Simpsons Movie& A Perfect Storm

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What does amovie camera

do?

Stereoscope - 1830s

Zoetrope - 1830s

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A movie cameracaptures reflectedlight and records it

chemically on film Series of stills

(Frames)

Projected at a speed(18-24 frames persecond) to give theillusion of movementor

Persistence of

Vision

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Editing

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Eadweard Muybridge, 1830-1904

Began as landscapephotographer

Motion studies started as away to settle a bet - startsin 1872 and proves theorythat horses feet all leavethe ground in 1878

1884 - after meeting withMarey, begins furthermotion studies withUniversity of Pennsylvania

Animal Locomotionpublished in 1887

Muybridge Animation

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Eadweard Muybridges Motion Studies, 1878

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Multiple camerastriggered by the

horses as theymade contactwith wires

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Etienne-JulesMarey,Physiologist,

18301904The figure 8 in

insect flight

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Thomas Edison, theWizard of Menlo Park

William Kennedy LaurieDickson

Saw works /of Marey &Muybridge

Thomas Edison Buys 90Muybridge Motion StudyImages, 1888

Developed theKinetograph tophotograph subjects forthe Kinetoscopew/Dickson

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The Kinetograph & Kinetoscope

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The Sneeze

The first close up

Fred Ott in The Sneeze, 1894Dir. William K.L. Dickson

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George Eastman George Eastman with Thomas Edison

George Eastman's Roll Film, 1888

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Louis and AugusteLumire

First public filmscreening in 1895

Urban folklore offirst screening

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1425 short films

Invented the

Cinmatographe 12 pounds

Both camera andprojector

L'Arrive d'un train en gare

de la Ciotat

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The Cinmatographe

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The Cinmatographe

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How did we getfrom this?

The Kiss

The Kiss

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To this?

Matrix Reloaded

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What movies are

What they say aboutus

The art of themotion picture

The history of motionpictures

How motion picturesare influenced byhistory and currentevents Gangsters or Family?

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The Triumvirate ofSilent Comedy

Harold Lloyd Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton

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Harold Lloyd, The King ofDaredevil Comedy 1893-1971

Teamed up w/ Hal Roach (Laurel

& Hardy & Our Gang) Several characters before The

Boy

Right hand half blown off in 1919

Made his first Lonesome Luketwo-reeler in 1917, his firstGlasses Character two-reeler in1919, his first three-reeler and hisfirst feature in 1921

Also 11 silent features from 1921-1928, 7 sound features from1929-1947, and 2 film

compilations, in 1962 and 1966

Safety Last

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Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977

Parents were music hallperformers

Signed w/ Mack Sennett atKeystone in 1914 where thecharacter of The Trampbegan to take shape

Emotional expression asopposed to diversion

Was making 10K/week in 1916and had a million dollarcontract in 1918

Helped found the firstindependent movie studio,United Artists, in 1919

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Charlie Chaplin Coming of sound changed

everything although hecontinued to make silents

Some films The Gold Rush, City Lights,

The Kid, Modern Times & TheGreat Dictatorwhich, in 1940,saw him tackle dialogue forthe first time

In the anti-Communist hysteriaof the 1950s, Chaplin becamepersona non grata and vowednever to return to America

He did not return until 1972for a special CareerAchievement Oscar

The Great Dictator

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Buster Keaton 1895-1966

So many accidents offstage, his vaudeville

parents decided hewould be safer on stage

Got his name from HarryHoudini who watchedhim fall down a flight ofstairs at 6 months and

arrive unharmed andslightly bemused

Began performing at age5 being thrown aroundby his father

More laughs if he kept a

straight face

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Buster Keaton Began in films w/ Roscoe

Fatty Arbuckle wherehe soon became his

assistant director andwriter

Less than 2 years afterWWI, he was world-famous

Delicate & subtle

Never as successful asChaplin & Lloyd but moretimeless

Also performed all hisown stunts

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Buster Keaton Experiments with the camera and

what it could do

Made the mistake of lettinghimself be talked into giving uphis own studio to sign w/ MGMwhere he was never able to makefilms the way he wanted to everagain

In the 30s, he was divorced,

bankrupt, alcoholic and droppedby MGM for unreliability whenhe refused to make what heconsidered inferior pictures

Worked all through the 30s &40s in Europe and on stage

R di d i 1949