History of Cinema - Silent Era

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Kuleshov Effect

Derive more meaning from the interaction

Acting technique

Body languages and facial expressions

Stan Laurel in Oranges and Lemons

Visual and physical humors "Sight gags" Slapstick comedy devices

1923

True or fictional stories that can scare the viewer or inspire the scripter

The Kid

Her Friend the Bandit Mabel

Technicals

Directors & films

Related to but distinct from mime

Based on makeups and light effects Popular horror figure : vampire, phantom...

1921

The Phantom of the Opera

1925

It has influenced comedy in modern media as well Vaudeville traditions

Music set the rythm of the film

Horror Movie

Silent Comedy

Live music

Usually played live in the cinema

Intertitles

Narrate story points

Directors

• David Wark Griffith
• Mary Pickford
• Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Films

• Birth of a nation 1915
• The Lost World 1925
• Little Annie Rooney 1925

1914

1922

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

History of Cinema The Silent Era