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 Study Sheet for all the Midterm Films Rename 1800-1904 Invention & early cinema The Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat Station   (Auguste & Louis Lumière, 1895) Roundhay Garden Scene  (Louis Le Prince, 1888) guy disappeared about 4 people walk around     The oldest recorded short film dates back to 1888 called,  Roundhay Garden Scene . Blacksmithing Scene   (W. K. L. Dickson & William Heise, 1893) US 3 guys and beer      firt kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893   showing actors in a film.      1st Staged Narrative in Film The 1st commercially exhibited film and the 1st staged      scene with actors performing a role, Blacksmith Scene is a Kinetoscope film first      shown on May 9, 1893.  It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West      Orange, New Jersey, in the USA which is widely referred to as "America's First      Movie Studio" Workers Leaving the Factory  (Auguste & Louie Lumière, 1895)   It was shown in

 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood (1920-1928) TERMS/PEOPLE Big Three (Paramount-Publix, Loew’s (MGM), First National) The vertically integrated firms that owned big theater chains—     Paramount-Publix,     Loew’s (MGM), and     First National—constituted the Big Three at the top of the industry. Block Booking 1)As the big Hollywood companies expanded, they developed a system of    distribution that would maximize their profits and keep other firms at the margins   of the market. 2)In dealing with the theaters they did not own, they employed  block booking ,     meaning that any exhibitor who wanted films with high box-office potential had    to rent other, less desirable films from the company. 3)Exhibitors might be forced to book an entire year’s program in advance. 4)Since most theaters changed programs at least twice a week and each big firm    usually made only around fifty films a year, a theater could deal with more than    one firm. 5)Similarly, the studios neede

 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s TERMS/PEOPLE Alexander Dovzhenko Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko; September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian[2] Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory. Foremost Ukranian director Dovzhenko's Earth has been praised as one of the greatest silent movies ever made. The British film director Karel Reisz was asked in 2002 by the British Film Institute to rank the greatest films ever made, and he put Earth second. The film portrayed collectivization in a positive light. Its plot revolved around a landowner's attempt to ruin a successful collective farm as it took delivery of its first tractor, though it opened with a long close-up of an elderly, dying man taking intense pleasure in the taste of an apple - a scene with no obvious p