Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, February 7

We watched two train robbery movies, The Great Train Robbery from 1903 and The Girl and Her Trust from 1912, and we identified advances in sophistication from the one to the other -- advances in film technique and advances in characterization.


Mr. P announced that he would be gone Tuesday and that in his absence students would watch the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, the opening scene of which is discussed in detail in the "Classical Hollwood Cinema: Style" packet.

HW due Wednesday:
Read the packet in preparation for a test over it.