Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, September 2

Students took an "open packet" quiz over Tuesday's handout on early cinema, after which we graded it together.

Nest we watched "Reve and Realite," a short comic clip whose title ("Dream and Reality") sums up the two major vectors of early film: photographic journalistic realism and pure fantasy. As a further example of the latter we ended the period by watching part of "The Dream of Aladdin," a pre-Disney (1907) rendition of the classic Arabian tale.