1. ENG 110: Introduction to Film and Media

2. Agenda Syllabus Intros Early Cinema History Sherlock, Jr. (5:05)

3. First Assignment 1. Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu, using your Duck ID and password. 2. Email me at platt@uoregon.edu to let me know that you have logged in to the blogs site. Then, I can give you access to our course blog.platt@uoregon.edu 3. Also, read all of Ch. 2 and pages 432-443 in the textbook for Wednesday.

4. Icebreaker Question First, tell us your name. Then, if you could require everyone in the world to see one movie, what would that movie be? Finally, if you could also place one movie in a black box deep in a cave, so that no one in the world would ever have to see it again... what movie would it be?

5. Cinema History: 1893 to 1924 (31 years in 10 minutes or less)

6. Clips Brief History of Pre-Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqeJ48 CPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKJqeJ48 CPs Early Film Clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Sv_tey e8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Sv_tey e8w

7. Cinema of Attractions: 1893 to 1905ish 1890s: Edison/Lumiere Brothers invent motion picture cameras Early films: short “spectacles,” limited story- telling Movies often part of a larger vaudeville or theater program

8. Early Hollywood Cinema: 1905 to 1915 From New Jersey to L.A. (smart move) The first studios create movie industry oligopoly; vertical integration First “features” (averaging 75 minutes) Conventions of Continuity Editing: – Intertitles, enlarged facial expressions – Intercutting: showing how two actions are occurring simultaneously – Contiguity editing: showing spaces are connected

9. European Cinema in the 1920s German Expressionism, French Impressionism, Soviet Montage Formal experimentation and innovation Emergence of the Avant-Garde: Films begin to achieve status of “art”

10. Hollywood in the Late Silent Era: 1920 to 1927 Post WWI: Hollywood takes control Theater boom Big budgets, industrial production Delineation of genres The “star” system

11. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton: one of the “big three” of Hollywood comedy BK fractured his neck in this shot BK was also the director of Sherlock, Jr. (along with Fatty Arbuckle)

13. Questions to Consider As You Watch What does BK’s character see in the movies? How does film affect him? Do you find this movie funny? What makes it funny to you? How do you respond to Keaton’s expressionlessness?

14. Don’t Forget: First Assignment 1. Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu, using your Duck ID and password. 2. Email me at platt@uoregon.edu to let me know that you have logged in to the UO blogs site. Then, I can give you access to our course blog.platt@uoregon.edu 3. Also, read all of Ch. 2 and pages 432-443 in the textbook for Wednesday.