FILM 2700 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
Cinematography - Answers - Everything that is photographic about the camera itself.
Such as Shot Scale, camera movement/placement, focus, etc.
Mise-en-scène - Answers - Everything that is "put in scene"/ in front of the camera.
Such as settings, backdrops, costumes, props, actors, lighting, etc.
Editing - Answers - This process takes place AFTER the shoot/Post-production. Cutting
up film and putting it back together into a series of shots = Reformulating
Sound - Answers - Can be recorded live or mixed in later. adds to visual elements and
often overlooked. (Cinema was silent until 1927 however was accompanied usually by
live musical performance)
What were the 5 conditions for cinema to be invented? - Answers - 1. Optical Toys
2. Rapid Projection of images
3. Successive Pictures
4. Flexible base
5. Intermittent mechanism
Early Cinema - Answers - 1895 to 1907
Transitional Cinema? - Answers - 1907-1915
Early Feature Films - Answers - 1915-late teens
Earliest films are less than a minute long
By 1905 they are 5-10 minutes
Topics drawn from actuality / news
Presentation draws on theater and photography
Common features: frontality, spectacle, performance, actuality
Optical Toys - Answers - Phenakistocope 1832
Zoetrope 1833
Magic Lantern - Answers - 17th century,
Heliotype - Answers - 1826, First permanent photographic image. 8-20 hour exposure
time on a metal plate. NN
Calotype - Answers - 1839, Permanent image on paper.
Pro = reproducible from original negative
Con = reduced quality. Henry Fox Talbot
, George Eastman - Answers - 1888, made camera (kodak) that made photos on rolls of
sensitized paper. made for armatures.
1889, introduces transparent celluloid roll film
Intermittent mechanism - Answers - material could move through machines without
tearing. (already existed for sewing machines)
Edward Muybridge - Answers - 1878- Calif. gov. asked Muybridge to photograph
running horses. Sets up 12 camera's w/ exposure of 1000th of a sec apart. (set off my
trip wire) paved way for cinema.
later used lantern to project moving images of horses. (drawings on revolving disc)
Emile Reynaud - Answers - 1877- built optical toy, projecting praxinoscope
1882- used mirrors w/ lantern to project drawings on screen.
1889- larger version of praxinoscope
1892- Reynaud gave public performance
1900- out of business. destroyed all his machines in despair.
Thomas Edison - Answers - Famous and wealthy due to invention of lightbulb in 1888..
also made phonograph.. wants to be wealthier.
1889- Goes to Paris and see's Marey's camera. Gets Kodak film stock.
Hires assistant WKL Dickson. & create Kinetoscope. Used in parlors . look through
cylinder. single person use. pay to use. Nickel.
1891- Kinetoscope viewing box and Kinetograph patented
films lasted 20 seconds.
1895- become available for home use.
Sued everyone for everything as much as he could to ensure fear and eliminate
competition. Contacted Dickson, Pathe, and a few more to create MPPC/ Edison's
Trust. 1908-1915. Ended by american Gov't
Who invented the mutoscope - Answers - WKL Dickson
Black Maria - Answers - Built by Thomas Edison
American Mutoscope & Biography Company - Answers - Dickson (Edison's former
employee) sets out alone to found company
Cinematography - Answers - Everything that is photographic about the camera itself.
Such as Shot Scale, camera movement/placement, focus, etc.
Mise-en-scène - Answers - Everything that is "put in scene"/ in front of the camera.
Such as settings, backdrops, costumes, props, actors, lighting, etc.
Editing - Answers - This process takes place AFTER the shoot/Post-production. Cutting
up film and putting it back together into a series of shots = Reformulating
Sound - Answers - Can be recorded live or mixed in later. adds to visual elements and
often overlooked. (Cinema was silent until 1927 however was accompanied usually by
live musical performance)
What were the 5 conditions for cinema to be invented? - Answers - 1. Optical Toys
2. Rapid Projection of images
3. Successive Pictures
4. Flexible base
5. Intermittent mechanism
Early Cinema - Answers - 1895 to 1907
Transitional Cinema? - Answers - 1907-1915
Early Feature Films - Answers - 1915-late teens
Earliest films are less than a minute long
By 1905 they are 5-10 minutes
Topics drawn from actuality / news
Presentation draws on theater and photography
Common features: frontality, spectacle, performance, actuality
Optical Toys - Answers - Phenakistocope 1832
Zoetrope 1833
Magic Lantern - Answers - 17th century,
Heliotype - Answers - 1826, First permanent photographic image. 8-20 hour exposure
time on a metal plate. NN
Calotype - Answers - 1839, Permanent image on paper.
Pro = reproducible from original negative
Con = reduced quality. Henry Fox Talbot
, George Eastman - Answers - 1888, made camera (kodak) that made photos on rolls of
sensitized paper. made for armatures.
1889, introduces transparent celluloid roll film
Intermittent mechanism - Answers - material could move through machines without
tearing. (already existed for sewing machines)
Edward Muybridge - Answers - 1878- Calif. gov. asked Muybridge to photograph
running horses. Sets up 12 camera's w/ exposure of 1000th of a sec apart. (set off my
trip wire) paved way for cinema.
later used lantern to project moving images of horses. (drawings on revolving disc)
Emile Reynaud - Answers - 1877- built optical toy, projecting praxinoscope
1882- used mirrors w/ lantern to project drawings on screen.
1889- larger version of praxinoscope
1892- Reynaud gave public performance
1900- out of business. destroyed all his machines in despair.
Thomas Edison - Answers - Famous and wealthy due to invention of lightbulb in 1888..
also made phonograph.. wants to be wealthier.
1889- Goes to Paris and see's Marey's camera. Gets Kodak film stock.
Hires assistant WKL Dickson. & create Kinetoscope. Used in parlors . look through
cylinder. single person use. pay to use. Nickel.
1891- Kinetoscope viewing box and Kinetograph patented
films lasted 20 seconds.
1895- become available for home use.
Sued everyone for everything as much as he could to ensure fear and eliminate
competition. Contacted Dickson, Pathe, and a few more to create MPPC/ Edison's
Trust. 1908-1915. Ended by american Gov't
Who invented the mutoscope - Answers - WKL Dickson
Black Maria - Answers - Built by Thomas Edison
American Mutoscope & Biography Company - Answers - Dickson (Edison's former
employee) sets out alone to found company
