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drôle
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funny
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l'ecran
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the screen
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Handles
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Extra frames
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les lieux
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locations
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un échec
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a flop
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une actrice
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an actress
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un film policier
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detective movie
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l'industrie cinématographique
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the film industry
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un acteur
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a male actor
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un film culte
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cult film
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soundtrack
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the music of a film
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Irving Thalburg
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Producer, MGM
Big Parade involvment
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Ladri di Biciclette-director
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Vittorio de Sica
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Cliffhanger
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A melodramatic ending which creates suspense. (noun)
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narrative complexity
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multiple story lines
Uses crosscutting between various locales to tell one story
Effective use of narrative economy
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special effects
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images created by a computer
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Vitascope
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an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat in 1895
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Shooting script
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Expresses the director's visual strategy for every scene in the film.
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Vigo films
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Zero de conduite (1933)
L'Atalante (1934)
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characteristics of F.O.W
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1) immigrants, adjusting 2)different times, one time to another 3) people from other places 4) diffrences due to race and gender
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Asynchronous
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Sound that comes from a source apparent in the image but is not precisely matched temporally with the actions occurring in that image.
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Montage
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The build up of impressions through the juxtapositions of separate shots in order to create a single complete image
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Mise-en-scène
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an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"
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Telephoto
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Lens that makes the image look flatter
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Jean Renoir
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-most exceptional French filmmaker of the 1930; made 15 films during this period; social satires; both as a means to criticize the decaying social and political structures of his country and to recognize some of the historical problems French citizens must face in 1930s
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au théâtre
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at the theater (for plays, musicals)
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Cinematic Characteristics of Early Films (1890-early 1900)
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static camera
theatrical setting
movie one-shot take
filmmakers imitate each other
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stuntman
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kaskader, a man who is employed to take the place of an actor when something dangerous has to be done in a film
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visual effects unit
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preparing and executing process shots, miniatures, matte work, computer generated graphics, and other technical shots
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Stroboscopic effect
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an illusion of apparent motion or absence of motion that arises when an object or picture is viewed not continuously but during separate time intervals that succeed one another in a periodic manner.
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70-80% white
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Considered the upper limit of proper exposure for white people
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Rerecording mixer
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Handles the hardware and the mixing tasks while the director and editor watch the film projected on a fairly large screen and listen to the sound mix on high-quality reference speakers
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Siegfried Kracauer
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German film theorist
"You can already see what Hitler is going to do --gravitating toward a dominated society
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western
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A film based on invented stories about life in the west of the US in the past
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Thomas A. Edison
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Assigned W.K.L Dickson to get images in motion
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supporting player
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actor in a role secondary to the lead
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Block booking
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a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit
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Spotting (for sound)
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The process of sitting down and closely watching the picture-locked movie to identify, scene-by-scene, the placement and character of any additional sound effects, ambience tracks, or music that are needed.
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Sergei Eisenstein Films
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-greatest theorist of the silent era and montage
- 3 most widely known silent films Strike, The Battleship Potemkin, October
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1st Vitascope Screening
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April 1896 at Koster & Bials Music Hall, NYC
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Speed and shutter
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The camera's frame rate and the size of our shutter. Determines the duration of exposure
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Musical
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a play or film in which part of the story is sung to music
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Fish Out Of Water theory
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character in the moie where they dont belong
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