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- Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- Shot in Ireland
- Made to immerse the viewer
- Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Uses empathy
- Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- Uses eye highlights
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Japan is seen as more classical for films than Hollywood
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- Uses bubbles as a reflection for story
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Uses odd man out as inspiration and does the same technique
- Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Uses bubbles and zooms into a drink glass for flashbacks
- The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
- Uses a moving camera to immerse viewer into car
1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
- Shows footage a street from England to add to the film
- The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- Shot in a dark room with lights to bring out details on actors faces
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- Using Lumiere camera to show factory working leaving
- Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- One of the first films projected
- Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
- Used in reference of films being turned into stories
- Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- Also used in reference
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Flemingand Edwin S. Porter
- Shown as background footage of how films can be used an escape from reality
- Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- First film using cuts
- Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
- La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- Used special effects for the first time
- The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- One of the first to film the front of a moving object
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- Used phantom ride to show the journey of Jews into Auschwitz
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Phantom ride through space
- The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- The first closeup
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Uses closeups to create emotion
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- Uses closeups to convey emotion and create plot
- The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
- Created widescreen
1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- Uses cuts and wipes
- Creates flow
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- Uses double exposure
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- Uses parallel cuts
- The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
- Actors turn their backs to the camera for one of the first times in film
- Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Creates dramatic effect with actors turning away
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Starts actors down a path of being well-known
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Uses familiar faces to entice audience
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- Created a more famous actress and uses the minimal censorship laws in Europe to the advantage of fame
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- Uses costuming to add to stardom
- The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Uses innovative lighting to add emotion to the movie
- Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Advances lighting techniques
- Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Creates new story techniques
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Advances plot depth
- mixes numerous revolutionary techniques
- Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Uses creative shots and costuming
- The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
- First feature length film
- The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
- First Hollywood feature length
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
- Uses shot consistency
- Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
- Uses emotion to bring viewers into story
- Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
- Uses split screen to advance parallel story telling
- Uses mirror to add to the shot
- The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Uses parallels between emotion and action in the story
- Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
- Uses scenery to add to the film
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Example of how film was shot before scenery advanced
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Mirrors scenery with actors features
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Uses lighting and cinematography to advance scenes
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Created a revolutionary scene
- Used to show how dangerous stereotyping can be in film
- Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
- Draws on and samples scenes from The Birth of a Nation
- Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- Inspired Griffith
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Long film that moves throughout history
- advances multiple story-lines
- Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
- Advances film in Japan