8/19 – 8/26: INTRODUCTION & THE CINEMA OF ATTRACTIONS
Martin Scorsese lecture, “The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema”
Intro 0:00:00 – 09:26; lecture 09:26 – 0.50:54; Q&A 0:50:54 – 1:15:55
Optical toys (click image)
Zoetrope demonstration
Eadweard Muybridge: Studies in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope
The basics of film projection (a demonstration)
Edison Kinetoscope shorts
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (dir. Lumière Brothers, 1895)
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) 4K colorized restoration, with sound effects added
The Lumière brothers’ Actualities
The Lumière brothers’ L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (Arrival of a Train at the Station, 1896) 4K colorized version, with sound effects added
The Cabbage Fairy (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900)
Cinderella (George Méliès, 1899) original hand-tinted print
The Man With the Rubber Head (George Méliès, 1902)
Trip to the Moon (dir. George Méliès, 1902) – digitally restored, original hand-tinted print
Stop Thief! (James Williamson, 1901)
Life of an American Fireman–cross cut version, recreated (Edwin Porter, 1903)
Life of an American Fireman–copyright version (Edwin Porter, 1903)
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edwin Porter, 1902)
The Gay Shoe Clerk (Edwin Porter, 1903). See Essential Film History, pp. 30-31
How the French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the New York Herald ‘Personal’ Column (Edwin Porter, 1904). See Gunning, pp. 60-61
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin Porter, 1903) See Essential Film History, pp. 32-44
D.W. Griffith, starring in Edwin Porter’s Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) – cinema scene
8/28 – 9/4 : FILM NARRATIVE: D.W. GRIFFITH, BUSTER KEATON, AND OTHERS
Les Vampires (dir. Louis Feuillade, 1915-16), episode one “The Severed Head”
The Lonely Villa (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1909)
Corner in Wheat (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1909)
The Birth of a Nation (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Sherman’s march sequence (begins at about 00:46:57)
Lincoln’s assassination sequence (begins at about 01:23:32)
Within Our Gates (1919) – Oscar Micheaux’s answer to Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Way Down East (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1920) – see esp. 0:56:25 – 0:58:40 for Lillian Gish’s subtle and moving performance and Griffith’s acting direction (example of intraframe narrative)
A montage of Buster Keaton’s most amazing stunts
Cops (dir. Buster Keaton, 1922)
Our Hospitality (dir. Buster Keaton, 1923)
The Navigator (dir. Buster Keaton, 1924) – esp. 0:09:50
The General (dir. Buster Keaton, 1926)
James Agee, on Buster Keaton’s The Navigator (1924)
9/9 – 9/11: FILM FORM I: GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920).
Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922) – see esp. 0:21:00 – 0:22:30 & 1:00:00 – 1:02:00
Vincent (dir. Tim Burton, 1982)
The Golem: Horror’s First Franchise (video essay)
9/16 – 9/18: FILM FORM II: SOVIET MONTAGE
Battleship Potemkin (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925)
Man with the Movie Camera (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929) click title for link
October, aka Ten Days that Shook the World (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1928)
Old and New, aka The General Line – cream separator sequence (dir Sergei Eisenstein, 1929)
Bezhin Meadow (unfinished film from 1937–only stills survive)
The Untouchables – baby carriage scene (dir. Brian de Palma, 1987)
9/23 – 9/25: FILM SOUND
Vitaphone programme, August 6, 1926 – introduction by Will Hays
Subjective sound in Hitchcock – see Essential Film History, Chapter 6, pp. 26-29.
Counterpoint in Soviet sound cinema. Enthusiasm (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1931) – jump to 0:26:44 & see Essential Film History, Chapter 6, p. 30
“Stingers” in King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper, 1933, score composed by Max Steiner) – see Essential Film History, Chapter 6, pp. 34-37