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VM 100 -05 Study Topics
Be able to identify the following individuals and institutions, including their major
contributions either in
terms of films, innovations, policy-making, etc.
The Cinema’s Beginnings
 Eadweard Muybridge
 Lumiere Bros.
 George Melies
 Thomas Edison
 W.K.L. Dickson
 Edwin Porter
 D. W. Griffith & role in developing continuity
  Precursor technologies/discoveries for motion
pictures
 Persistence of vision
  The Black Maria
  Cinematographe
 Kinetoscope
  Kinetograph
 Nickelodian
 Motion Picture Patents Company
Hollywood Silent Period
 Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor & William Fox
 Continuity in narrative cinema
 General time period for studios’ formation
 Vertical integration
 Beginning of the star system
 Charlie Chaplin
 Paul Robeson
 Oscar Michaux
 Fritz Lang
 Ernst Lubitsch
 MPPDA (and its formation)
 Production Code
  Will Hays
  Consolidation of distributors and exhibitors to
form Hollywood studios

  Ohio v. Mutual (1915)
  Block booking
You should also be able to identify and describe the following terms as well as the
historical context in
which they belong.
Soviet Cinema & Montage
 Sergei Eisenstein
 Dziga Vertov
 Lev Kuleshov
 Kuleshov effect
 Kuleshov experiments

 Montage—definition and differences from
continuity editing
 Non-Diagetic Insert
Formal Devices Used In Continuity Editing
 Shot-reverse shot
 Matching action
 Point of view shot editing
Directors, screenwriters, and stars you will need to know:
Leni Riefenstahl Busby Berkeley Jimmy Cagney
Orson Welles Composer - Bernard Herrmann
Billy Wilder Barbara Stanwyck Fred McMurray
Composer-Miklos Rosza Raymond Chandler````Alfred Hitchcock
Roberto Rosellini Vittorio De Sica Dalton Trumbo Lucille Ball
Desi Arnez Jackie Gleason Rod Serling
Nicholas ray James Dean
Sal Mineo Natalie Wood

Jean-Luc Godard Jean Seberg Jean-Paul Belmondo
Francois Truffaut
Robert Drew D.A. Pennebaker Richard Leacock
The Maysles Brothers
Karel Reisz Albert Finney
Richard Lester Alun Owen
Bob Dylan Albert Grossman
Be sure you can identify the following:
Cahiers du Cinema The “Auteur Theory”
“Kitchen Sink” films
Mise-en-scene
Direct Cinema
Technological developments in films that enabled Direct Cinema
Italian Neo-realism The French New Wave
The Blacklist The Hollywood Ten HUAC
The Paramount Decree
Kinescope
Film Noir
Hollywood Major Studios: The “Big Five”, The “Little Three”
Films/Clips We Screened You Need To Know
 Edison & Lumiere films
 The Great Train Robbery (clips)
 A Trip To The Moon (clips)
 Birth of a Nation (clips)
 Intolerance (clips)
 The Kid
 Sherlock Jr.