Introduction

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
  • The camera is shaky make us feel that we are there
• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • White light transitions – empathy
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Hollywood is not classical, Japan is
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
  • Sees troubles in reflections
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • The same idea of looking into bubbles to show troubles
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The same idea of looking into bubbles to show troubles
• 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
  • The moment everyone could understand
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
  • One of the first film locations.
  • Where the Lumiere brothers filmed
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
  • One of the first shot and shown.
  • The train gave an effect coming at the audience startling them.
• 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 resulting in a special effect
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Melies: First special effects creator
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
  • Melies: First special effects creator
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
  • First to film in front of a train
  • Magical
• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
  • Used this “dolly shot” effect in their film
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Used this “dolly shot” effect in their film
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
  • First close-ups in cinema
  • Shows more details
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • Close-ups give a sense of movement
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
  • Close-ups show what characters discover
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
  • 63 mm – widescreen filming

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

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
  • Uses cuts in the film to show different locations
  • Continuos timeline
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
  • Double exposure used
  • Also used cuts to tell the stories
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
  • It also uses cuts to show different locations at the same time.
  • Parallel 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
  • Reverse angle shots
• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Did not use the reverse angle shot
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
  • Less censorship in Europe
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Light!
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Used light to tell the story
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Naturalism and grace
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • Stories within stories
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
  • Filmed in Australia
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
  • Connect emotionally
  • 180 Degree rule
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • Shot reverse shot
  • 180 rule
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
  • Sideways POV shot
  • Inventive shots
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
  • The corpse is uncovered like her fear
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Wind and trees to cinema
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Visual softness
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Tracking shots
  • epic with the intimate
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • 3.5 hr long film
  • Violence=blue
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
  • Two storylines intertwine