Early Cinema
1895, Workers Leaving the Factory - Lumiere Brothers
1896, The Kiss - Thomas Edison
1902, Voyage to the Moon - Melies
1903, The Great Train Robbery - Edwin Porter
The Silent Era
1915, Birth of a Nation - DW Griffith
1916, Intolerance - DW Griffith
1919, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - R. Wiene
1921, The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
1922, Nosferatu - Fritz Lang
1924, Greed - Erich von Stroheim
1925, Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
1925, The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
1926, Metropolis - Fritz Lang
1926, Faust - F.W. Murnau
The First Talkies
1927, The Jazz Singer - Alan Crosland
1927, The General - Buster Keaton
1927, The Lodger - Alfred Hitchcock
1927, Underworld - Joseph von Sternberg
1928, The Passion of Joan of Arc - Theodore Dreyer
1929, Pandora's Box - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
9 comments:
Hello, Jen:
I watched "The Birth of a Nation." It was a conflict of a War era. The turning points of two worlds colliding to fight for freedom and Justice. It reared to mark a beginning of assassation of President Lincoln who freed the slaves. It was kind of distrubing for me to watch the violence and horror of war. It was history in the making to see how far we have progressed as a "Nation."
Althea Pettigrew
I saw workers leaving a factory
it is the first time people witnessed pictures in motion...even thought it was just workers leaving a factory it was the most novel thing ever :)
the kiss is roughly a 47 second clip they kiss each other over 19 times mostly on the mouth some times on the cheek
Voyage to the Moon is like the first special effects ever hehehe the koolest part is the man in the moon the face as the ship lands smack da in the eye it hilarious then ther is an exploration of the moon having no space suits or anything and then they beat up some moonmen and all is well
the Great Train Robbery is the first feature film it has about only 14 different scenes and the overall message is crime doesnt pay...the bad guys are killed right after they rob the train oh and the move either begins or ends with a cowboy pointing a gun directly at the audience
Intolerance - DW Griffith
okay okay what is this his apology 4 birth of a nation - mrm i dislike D.W. Griffith despite his skill and everything, his use of juxtaposition etc.
and the awesome lighting in this movie etc. idont like him
but really though for a silent movie this is iiaght i mean i dont mind reading the subtitles and the lighting i really dig it i know i said it already it just makes every crazy dramatic moment that more dramatic
and okay i get the point it is about how bad stuff happens when ppl are intolerant ie like the death of jesus---DW Griffith over dramatic much yeah i think so ...apology excepted no i think not!
Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein oy he is one sick director listen i dont want to spoil it for any of u guys who havent seen it but listen no surprises here --everyone dies, even the baby dies...and ah that chick with the broken glasses on the flier for this blog site yeah the one that is shot in the eye she dies too um i think this film was based on real life events not sure though :(
I watched Workers Leaving The Factory. By today's standard, it's so boring because it just shows a bunch of factory workers leaving a factory. But considering that it was made in 1895, it was pretty cool.
~Dinar
The Great Train Robbery is more violent than I thought it's going to be. I didn't think that they would actually show people getting shot and die. I like the ending where the villains are caught by surprise and the last clip where the guy is pointing his gun at the viewers.
~Dinar
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