Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, September 8

We surveyed the packet on "Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style," and students were reminded to read it carefully in preparation for tomorrow's quiz.

We then watched two very popular films from the first decade of the 20th century, Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon and the Hepworth Studio's Rescued by Rover. We compared the two in terms of the reliance on special effects in the first, and the emphasis on narrative sequence and suspense in the second. These films both involve sophisticated editing (for the period) but of very different sorts, and we looked at Rover as an early instance of cross-cutting.

HW due Wednesday:
Quiz over the packet.