2. Elements or Conventions of Cinema: Conditions that the audience agree to accept as real When we understand the conventions of cinema then we can view a film critically and with greater enjoyment
23. Kinetoscope October 1889 Dickson shows Edison projection with sound. Quality is poor. Edison opts for silent, individual showings of films. Invents Kinetoscope. Kinetoscope Open
24. Lumiere Brothers 1894 Tinker with Edison’s Kinetoscope. Designed their own machine called a cinematographe within a year. Auguste and Louis Lumiere
25. Cinematographe shot the pictures, printed them, and projected them. The camera was portable. A hand crank provided the power.
26. Chronology Silent Film Era: 1900-1930 Post World War I: 1930-1945 Post World War II to Present: 1946-2007
29. The Odessa Steps Montage Sequence The Russian Tsar's Cossacks march down a seemingly endless flight of steps in a rhythmic, machine-like fashion, slaughtering a crowd. The soldiers shoot a mother who is pushing a baby in a baby carriage. As she falls to the ground, dying, she leans against the carriage, nudging it away; it rolls down the steps amidst the fleeing crowd. The massacre on the steps is fictional . . .
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31. The Odessa Steps sequence Film critic Roger Ebert writes, "That there was, in fact, no czarist massacre on the Odessa Steps scarcely diminishes the power of the scene ... It is ironic that Eisenstein did it so well that today the bloodshed on the Odessa steps is often referred to as if it really happened.”
32. Slapstick Comedy and More Mack Sennet (1884-1960) Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) Mario Moreno-Reyes-Cantinflas (1911-1993)
61. What is an auteur? Auteur is the French word for author; a director who develops a reputation as a serious artist, whose imprint is found in almost every film, and who employs recognizable camera styles. Rhythms, themes and symbols