1. The Basics: What is a Movie?

2. Still pictures (FRAME) Seen in rapid succession Traditional Frame Rate Movies: 24 fps (frames per second) Video: 30 fps

3. SHOT: a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time

4. EDWEARD MUYBRIDGE English Photographer
Photographic Studies Led to the Development of Motion Pictures

5. PERSISTENCE OF VISION (MOTION)

6. THOMAS EDISON
Patented the first motion picture camera in the U.S.

7. THOMAS EDISON Black Maria First Motion Picture Studio “The Kiss”
“The Sneeze”

8. KINETOSCOPE
An early machine designed for individuals to watch motion pictures.

9. LUMIERE BROTHERS Auguste and Louis Mobile Camera Public Screenings
“Arrival of a Train”
“Workers Leaving a Factory”

10. GEORGE MELIES
Storytelling
Special Effects
“A Trip to the Moon”

11. EDWIN PORTER Cross Cutting “Life of an American Fireman”
“The Great Train Robbery”

12. D.W. GRIFFITH Sometimes considered the Father Editing “Intolerance”
“Way Down East”

13. SILENT ERA
(1894–1929)
Melodrama
Slapstick

14. STUDIO ERA (1928-1949) First “Talkie:” The Jazz Singer (1927)
Five Major Studios: RKO, Fox, Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers
US vs Paramount Pictures (1948)
Ended Block Booking.
Studios no longer can own theaters.

15. Hollywood Transitions (1948-1963)
Major studios break contracts with stars/technicians
Competition from television
New technologies 3D
Wide screen
Color

16. Hollywood Rennaissance (1964-1976)
Anti-hero
Auteur directors:
a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie.
More realistic depiction of modern life

17. Digital Cinema (1993-Now)
Digital Filmmaking
Non-linear editing
CGI