- What was the name of the first film made by Lumiere Brother of the Cinema and when was this?
-Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (1895)
- What is the “Phantom ride”?
-Phantom ride was filming technique used where a camera would be on the front of a train or vehicle giving the look of a flying fast moving shot
- What was ground-breaking about the silent films “The Sick Kitten” and “Life of an American Fireman”?
- The sick Kitten used the close up shot for one the the first times in cinema history and life of an American fireman was notable for its synthesis of numerous innovations in film technique that had occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, Porter builds a continuous narrative over seven scenes, rendered in a total of nine shots.
- What was the first film star in Hollywood?
- Florence Lawrence, a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as “The First Movie Star,” and was the first film actor to be named publicly.
- Who directed Birth of a nation and why is this film now considered to be controversial?
- D.W. Griffith and it is controversial as the film is credited as one the events that sparked the reformation of the ku klux klan.
Episode 2:
- Who were buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd and why where they so important to the success of Hollywood in the silent era.
- These people where some of Hollywood’s first film stars, all melded music with silent film and comedy to create a distinct type of cinema that got all these men famous, Chaplin was interested In performance whereas Keaton while also the same was very often doing dangerous stunts in his films.
- Name a film (with date) staring each of the above.
- Charlie Chaplin : The great dictator (1940)
- Harold Lloyd : Safety last (1923)
- Buster Keaton : The General (1926)
- Who were the Italian and French equivalents of Charlie Chaplin?
- Italian: Toto
- French: Jacques Tati