Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, February 3

Students took a quiz over the beginnings of cinema (based on the packet of short readings), after which we exchanged papers and graded it together in class.

Mr. P them lectured briefly about early film as largely based upon theater of the time and the inevitable slowness of film in finding its own legs and exploiting the new medium to its potential.

We watched a few short nickelodeon films which simply recorded stage performances from the time, including the infamous "May Irwin - John C. Rice Kiss."