Screen History – Arts & Humanities Exam
The key terms of Arts & Humanities Exam include, Screen, History, Film.
Where was the Lumiere’s film screening?
Basement of a Paris café
First theater opens to the paying public
Nickelodeon
1905 Movie theaters
– Admission = $.05-$.10 for a 15-60 minute production
– Audiences sat on benches, wooden seats
– Front display = hand painted signs
– Actors stood behind screen and spoke dialogue in synchronization with the action on the screen
– Sound effects were made with noisemakers behind the screen
Where did Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, MGM get there start?
as Nickelodeon exhibitors
The Great Train Robbery
Based on a true robbery by Butch Cassidy
– First Western
– First to use editing as a storytelling technique
– One of the first to use panning and close-ups
– Moved from documentary to narrative
Film
Most familiar and easily accessible art form
Purpose and Function – Much like Theatre
– Personalize the spectrum of human emotions
– Confront/Examine the human condition
– Fantasy
– Escapism
– Entertainment
Film history
Initially, films were still pictures pulled across a projector
– Frame-Individual picture
– 24 frames per second
Narrative
– Tells a story
– Basic literary constructs
– Controlled setting
– Genre films
– Professional actors/crew
Documentary
– Not actors, real people in real situations
– Real time
– May use narrative structure
– Focus on reality
Eadweard Muybridge
1878 “Galloping Horses”
George Eastman
1884 – Developed celluloid film
– Originally created for the still camera, it made motion pictures possible
– Flexible and allows light to pass through
What was the first film in America?
Fred Ott’s Sneeze in 1889
– By William Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) begins using celluloid film
– Watched through a Kinetoscope
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
credited with the world’s first public film screening on December 28, 1895
Lumieres’ show:
– Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory
– Arrival at Lyon
– A Baby’s Meal
Where was the Lumiere’s film screening?
Basement of a Paris café
First theater opens to the paying public
Nickelodeon
1905 Movie theaters
– Admission = $.05-$.10 for a 15-60 minute production
– Audiences sat on benches, wooden seats
– Front display = hand painted signs
– Actors stood behind screen and spoke dialogue in synchronization with the action on the screen
– Sound effects were made with noisemakers behind the screen
Where did Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, MGM get there start?
as Nickelodeon exhibitors
The Great Train Robbery
Based on a true robbery by Butch Cassidy
– First Western
– First to use editing as a storytelling technique
– One of the first to use panning and close-ups
– Moved from documentary to narrative