Introduction
Individual works of cinema.
What is Film?
Also called the "Phantasmascope" or Fantascope.
What is Phenakistoscope?
Étienne-Jules Marey created this device.
What is the Chronophotographic Camera?
A single still image within a shot.
What is a Frame?
Everything arranged in front of the camera.
What is Mise-en-Scène?
The broad term encompassing all films and film theory.
What is Cinema?
The "Wonder Turner"
What is Thaumatrope?
Edison and Dickson developed both the Kinetograph and the what.
What is Kinetoscope?
Sequence of short shots edited to condense time or create meaning.
What is a Montage?
The art of capturing moving images through light, color, composition, and movement.
What is Cinematography?
Fundamental unit of film; a continuous piece of footage.
What is a Shot?
What is Zeotrope?
The Lumiere brothers created this device that both recorded and projected films.
What is the Cinematographe?
Time within the story world, which can be compressed or expanded.
Italian word for strong contrasts between light and dark.
What is Chiaroscuro?
The system of communication used in films, including conventions and codes
What is film language?
Continuous Rotational motion represented by Short Samples.
What is the Stroboscopic Effect?
Alfred Hitchcock advocated for this.
What is "Pure Cinema"?
The “rules” most filmmakers follow, like grammar in language.
What are "Cinematic Conventions"?
Sound from within the story world.
What is Diegetic Sound?
Early films were created out of this material.
What is Celluloid?
Considered the "birth of cinema"
What is the Zoopraxis?
Sergei Eisenstein advocated for this.
What is "Audience Stimulation"?
Meaning created by sequences of shots rather than single shots.
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
Sound from outside the story world.
What is Non-Diegetic Sound?