TFM 364-A Midterm Study Guide
Thomas Edison - -American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb,
acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
Built the studio BLACK MARIA
-Kinetoscope - -an early film projection system that served as a kind of peep show in
which viewers looked through a hole and saw images moving on a tiny plate (Thomas
Edison)
-Lumiere Brothers - -French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic
equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the
Cinématographe,
Opened first motion picture exhibition hall
-Cinematographe - -a device that both photographed and projected action (Lumiere
Brothers)
-George Melies - -father of special effects from france (A Trip to the Moon)
-Magic Lanterns - -Victorian age
- oil lamps light up glass with hand drawn images
- use multiple projectors
-Early film exhibition - -began as just a marvel and then transformed into a films through
experimentation
-US vs Europe (early film exhibition) - -USA - film producers used Vaudeville. Movies
became part of the act
Europe - Fairs, or regional celebrations, showman would pop up and charge admission to a
screening, project on walls or sheets
-Vaudeville - -stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing,
comedy, and magic shows
-Edwin S. Porter - -Employee of Edison who began making early films for the Edison
Company. Director of "The Great Train Robbery". This film is considered by many to be the
first narrative film (1903)
-The great train robbery - -A 1903 black and white silent western film that was 14
minutes long and the first film to tell a coherent story. Due to its success it is credited for
the creating Hollywood and the success of the movie industry.
-Life of an american fireman - -Edwin S. Porter
, 7 min · Momentum, tension, rescue narrative, covered once from the interior, then exterior
the same events play out, so filmmakers were trying to figure out continuity and how to
film a scene.
-Cinema of attractions (Tom Gunning Article) - -
-Biograph - -first american company devoted entirely to making films
begin to see narrative complexity through D.W. Griffith
movies were a business
-Nickelodeans - -5 cents uncomfortable make shift theatres that were temporary
-Gaumont - -A french film production company founded in 1895 by Leon Gaumont. Next to
Pathe, Gaumont was the biggest firm in France. Created serials, later expanded onto british
theatre. (alice was the secretary)
-Solax - -Alice Guy-Blache's studio in Fort Lee, NJ.
Only female run female owned film company
Would shoot 3 short films a week
Also distributed films through Gaumount in France
Early creations of Fox and Paramount near by
-Belleville Studio - -grand movie theatre
-Guy's Themes and motifs - -comedy
women experimenting with men
gender
family roles
-Three categories of Guy's films - -demonstrative
phonoscope films
comedies
-The results of feminism - -
-The drunken mattress - -Alice Guy Blanche
alcohol sewninto a mattress
-The hierarchy of Love - -Alice guy blanche
men in the military keep losing a woman to higher ranks
-Madame has her cravings - -Alice Guy Blache about pregnancy cravings
-The rolling bed - -Alice Guy Blache
Man gets evicted and rolls his bed. falls asleep in the street and becomes an attraction
Thomas Edison - -American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb,
acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
Built the studio BLACK MARIA
-Kinetoscope - -an early film projection system that served as a kind of peep show in
which viewers looked through a hole and saw images moving on a tiny plate (Thomas
Edison)
-Lumiere Brothers - -French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic
equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the
Cinématographe,
Opened first motion picture exhibition hall
-Cinematographe - -a device that both photographed and projected action (Lumiere
Brothers)
-George Melies - -father of special effects from france (A Trip to the Moon)
-Magic Lanterns - -Victorian age
- oil lamps light up glass with hand drawn images
- use multiple projectors
-Early film exhibition - -began as just a marvel and then transformed into a films through
experimentation
-US vs Europe (early film exhibition) - -USA - film producers used Vaudeville. Movies
became part of the act
Europe - Fairs, or regional celebrations, showman would pop up and charge admission to a
screening, project on walls or sheets
-Vaudeville - -stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing,
comedy, and magic shows
-Edwin S. Porter - -Employee of Edison who began making early films for the Edison
Company. Director of "The Great Train Robbery". This film is considered by many to be the
first narrative film (1903)
-The great train robbery - -A 1903 black and white silent western film that was 14
minutes long and the first film to tell a coherent story. Due to its success it is credited for
the creating Hollywood and the success of the movie industry.
-Life of an american fireman - -Edwin S. Porter
, 7 min · Momentum, tension, rescue narrative, covered once from the interior, then exterior
the same events play out, so filmmakers were trying to figure out continuity and how to
film a scene.
-Cinema of attractions (Tom Gunning Article) - -
-Biograph - -first american company devoted entirely to making films
begin to see narrative complexity through D.W. Griffith
movies were a business
-Nickelodeans - -5 cents uncomfortable make shift theatres that were temporary
-Gaumont - -A french film production company founded in 1895 by Leon Gaumont. Next to
Pathe, Gaumont was the biggest firm in France. Created serials, later expanded onto british
theatre. (alice was the secretary)
-Solax - -Alice Guy-Blache's studio in Fort Lee, NJ.
Only female run female owned film company
Would shoot 3 short films a week
Also distributed films through Gaumount in France
Early creations of Fox and Paramount near by
-Belleville Studio - -grand movie theatre
-Guy's Themes and motifs - -comedy
women experimenting with men
gender
family roles
-Three categories of Guy's films - -demonstrative
phonoscope films
comedies
-The results of feminism - -
-The drunken mattress - -Alice Guy Blanche
alcohol sewninto a mattress
-The hierarchy of Love - -Alice guy blanche
men in the military keep losing a woman to higher ranks
-Madame has her cravings - -Alice Guy Blache about pregnancy cravings
-The rolling bed - -Alice Guy Blache
Man gets evicted and rolls his bed. falls asleep in the street and becomes an attraction
