Film Studies Daily Log

Friday, September 5

Mr. Potratz gave students folders with two packets. One packet ("Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style") will be assigned next week, though students are encouraged to begin reading it now. The other, a small collection of informational pieces on early cinema, is the HW due Monday: students are to read it carefully and prepare for a quiz over it in class Monday.

We then watched "The Countryman and the Cinematograph,"and used it as the basis to examine different ways of reacting to film. We also watched Cecil Hepworth’s "How it feels to be run over." (Won’t Mother be pleased?)