The Decline of Cinema
Wrote from new york asking his new production head what to do and not to do to maintain the company's position
What is Gaumont
Film known as Gance's "masterpiece"
La Roue
This American director found huge success in France with his move The Cheat (1915) known in French as forfaiture
Cecil B. De Mille
Gance's film that was widely crtiqued by other titans of the industry such as claire and Abel
What is La Roue
This country was the most significant foreign market for France's film industry that relied heavily on exports.
The United States
Edison created this to monopolize on on all motion pictures production and distribution in the united states
What is the M.P.P.C. ( motion pictures patents company)
name of what Gance and post-war newcomers in filmmaking that replaced pre-war important figures in French Cinema were called
What is "impressionists"?
One of the most ambitious and successful of the impressionist film movement, this filmmaker directed notable works such as J'Accuse (I Accuse 1919) and La Roue (The Wheel 1922)
Abel Gance
This famous actress starred in La Reine Elisabeth
Sarah Bernhardt
This is one style/genre of film that was well received on both sides of the Atlantic
Either Comedies or Melies-style trick films
The two major powers of french cinema at this time
Pathe and Gaumont
A recurrent motif in his films
What is Unification of a divided group, country or world by charismatic leader?
This French director made films at the Gaumont Company's studio in Nice, France until his death in 1925
Louis Feuillade
Gance was one of the first frenchman to see this film by D.W. Griffith in London
What is "The Birth of a Nation"?
The state where the Melies Manufacturing Company owned a ranch shooting primarily Western films.
Texas
The french film market was already at a disadvantage before the war but this made it even worse
What is still remarkably rural compared to other western nations
Company engaged him to make a film of jealousy, hypnotism, a major earthquake, a return from the dead and a case of total madness called
What is "Un Drame au chateau D'Acre" or Drama at the Acre Chateau ?
This French filmmaker and critic was at the center of the alternative film culture of the 1920's, He was also noted as the person to coin the term "photogenie" although he personally took no credit for the word.
Louis Delluc
This film was this filmmakersmost conventional and "safe" silent works
What is "Napoleon"?
French producers pioneered this genre with the help of Joe Hammon and "Bronco Billy" Anderson
Western films
In the American market longer films were a hit compared to the french creating the seed capital for what is now
What is paramount pictures
Gance learned this from being one of the first to watch W.D. Griffith's birth of a nation
What is the understanding of how editing can seamlessly join together neighboring spaces and actions
The pillow fight scene in "Napoleon" impressed this young man to partly recreate it in his own "Zero de Conduite" six years later.
Who is Jean Vigo?
These films all pose the same fundemental problem to historians: we can never see them in versions which even approach their original form and scope
"J'Accuse", "La Roue", "Napoleon vu par Abel Gance"
The Edison trust benefitted this French producer more than any other within the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)
Pathe