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1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
- Black and white with sky light
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
- What they thought Bagdad looked like
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- Eyelashes put on to make look longer
- Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- Blowing by the wind away from the people on set
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Creating patterns in the dancing to make it abstract
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- Shadows had light in them
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- “stars were angles with dirty faces”
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- costumes on display, romatic
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- Shows fascination with camera
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- Made a set with a house that folds and twists
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- Silent cinima
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Over head shot to make the building look high
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- Saw a train arriving made it looked like he stopped the train
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- set in the American civil war, jokes keep coming
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- filmed in dead pan and finds grumpyness funny
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- less into the camera, more into embodyment
- City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Board kept going down when he wasn’t looking
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Breaks windows so his dad can fix them.
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Shows timeline of a house being built
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- stuff was blown out at people
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- Impersonates him
- Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- same thing as the great dictator
- Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- Neardy look
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Athleticicm to do cool stunts
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Plays a hick, what marketing for a store
- I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
…And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
- Longest film filmed in Alaska
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Tracking shots
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- real places in Japan
- The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
- Close up a shot at eye level
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- No challenges every time they made it over again.
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- square on looming in the dark, creepy
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- actress how to do a simple thing like come to her hair
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Money was hand tinted yellow
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- 9 months of shooting
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
- portrayed the 20s in America
- The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- People dissolve
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- The camera was upwards then people dissolved
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- An alien sees a battle ship
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- Side lighting
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Black on the corners then black and white pictures
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Laying in a coffen
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- Opposite of romantic Hollywood
- Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- passion for Joan of Arc