Lit and film mid term

Persistence of Vision

how eyes retain images for a split second longer than they actually appear

Phi Phenomenon

illusion of movement created by presenting rapid images

Eadweard Muybridge

The Horse in Motion

W.K.L. Dickson

invented Kinetograph with Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations

Kinetoscopes

early peep-show device that exhibited short movies, patented by Thomas Edison

Auguste & Louis Lumiere

Invention of the cinematopgrahe' and screening of projected images

Cinematographe

a device that both photographed and projected action

Actualities

Early films that documented everyday events

George Melies

A Trip to the Moon

Edwin S. Porter

The Great Train Robbery

One-reelers

a motion picture contained on one reel of film:

D.W. Griffith

Birth of a Nation

Feature Film

a fictional film that is at least 60 minutes long

Insert shot

A close-up of some detail in the scene on screen

Oscar Micheaux

the first major African-American feature filmmaker

German Expressionism

German horror films and film noir

Chiaroscuro

high-contrast lighting technique that uses a key light to achieve dark backgrounds with starkly lit subjects.J

Stylization

using artistic forms and conventions to create effects

Ellipsis

omitting a portion of the sequence of events

Charlie Chaplin

silent comedian

Motion Picture Production Code (a.k.a "Hays Code")

industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content

Orson Welles

An actor, director, producer, writer. Created one of the most renowned radio broadcasts of all time ' The War of The Worlds"

Kuleshov Effect

derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot

Soviet Montage

a style of editing built around the theory that editing should highlight the differences between shots to produce meaning

Italian Neorealism

stories set amongst the poor and the working class

French New Wave

A film movement in France in opposition to the conventional studio system. Films often low budget with young actors, shot on location, used unconventional sound and editing patterns, and addressed the struggle for personal expression.

New Hollywood Cinema

mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence