The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres…

• Her Dilemma (a.k.a. Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley Murphy
  • Sound became primary
  • Video became secondary
  • Flat lighting
• Love Me Tonight (1932) dir. Rouben Mamoulian
  • Everyday noises
• The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) dir. Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
• Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale
  • Hollywood horror
• Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju
  • Mask
  • Emotionless
• Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
  • One of the greatest shocks in cinema
• The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman
• Scarface (1932) dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson
  • Gangster to tragedy
• Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma
  • Irony
• Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • One of the most influential films
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984) dir. Sergio Leone
• The Iron Horse (1924) dir. John Ford
  • Western Genre
• My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford
• Twentieth Century (1934) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Silent films turned feminism with sound
• Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks
  • Speed
  • Contrast in tone
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973) dir. Richard Schickel
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
  • Marching patterns
• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
  • Animated
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger
  • Victorian cut out techniques
• Plane Crazy (1928) dir. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
  • First Mickey Mouse film
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen
  • Box office hit
  • Motion capture
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman

…And the Brilliance of European Film

• The Blood of a Poet (1931) dir. Jean Cocteau
  • Could not of happened in silent cinema
• Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Filmed in a barrel
• Zéro de conduite (1933) dir. Jean Vigo
• If…. (1968) dir. Lindsay Anderson
• L’Atalante (1934) dir. Jean Vigo
  • Snow didn’t follow the original shots
• Le Quai des brumes (1938) dir. Marcel Carné
  • Night
  • Mist and dust
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) dir. Marcel Carné
  • Street scene transformed into Theatre
• La Règle du jeu (1939) (a.k.a. The Rules of the Game) dir. Jean Renoir
  • “Everyone has its own reasons”
• La Grande Illusion (1937) dir. Jean Renoir
• Limite (1931) dir. Mário Peixoto
  • Made in Brazi
  • Dissolves
• The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson
  • Light and exposure
• Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
• Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Soft light
• Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Nazi Party rally
• Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
• Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
  • Camera Angles
• Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
• The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray Müller
• Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • The camera becomes the eye of the protagonist
• Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Bit of mystery
• Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • No less than 15 times that the package is a bomb
• The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Close up of hands
• Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Close up
• Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
  • Gray reality to color
• Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor Fleming
  • Shows scale