Story of Film – Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema

Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema. Notes

Introduction The Story of Film: An Odyssey

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
• Lie to tell the truth
• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
• empathy
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
• Romantic films are in a rush
• not like in Japanese films
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
• The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin

1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema

• Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
• The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
• can’t just show that to high schoolers, scary as hell, almost got hit
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
• Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Flemingand Edwin S. Porter
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
• Phantom ride.
• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
• zoom threw light.
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
• wide screen

1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
• the cuts are important
• land mark
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
• The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
• turning you back was an option bithing th reverse shot
• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
• costuming is from Hollywood
• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
• multiple light and effects
• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
• story within storys
• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
• oudoors availible light
• The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
• i’ve never thought of the 180 degree rule. thats cool
• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
• There needs to be more praise to women in the film business
• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
• more side ways should happen they look cool
• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
• important to film history and it looks beautiful, but racist
• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
• I love tints
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata