Anitra Co-Teaching Chapter 2
24 March 2005
Movie fantasia
when you are behind the camera, you are the eye
- you have to be the director, etc right away
great thing about digital cameras, immediate feedback
Soviet filmaker: Dziga Vertov
- you have to be the eye of the video
in 1940s, st
- suggested there is a language and grammar to film
cave walls and hieroglyphics were original storytelling
- like Tim Allen movie "jungle boy"
- made a documentary, not true, but everyone believed it
When documentary was born in late 19th century
Geologist turned filmaker, made "Nanook" by Flaherty
- had emphathy for subjects
- did much more than just record
- can persuade, communicate: do much more than just
- movie "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery
-- lots of that movie had been researched and was real
More recent documentaries
- 1960s during Vietnam: first time of war footage showing what war was like
- Pearl Harbor used lots of original footage
MY THOUGHT: REMEMBER MOVIE JFK BY OLIVER STONE
Don Bluth: took different approach,
Carl's Masquerade by Alexandria Day
- another one called "Follow Carl"
- books that are all photos
animation is documenting, everyone has a different story
I do remember Windsor McCay's Gertie
- hand drawn pictures of dinosaurs
Charlie Chaplain, Felix the Cat
Walt Disney, Snow White & 7 Dwarves
1934:
- before, cartoons had been full of sexual innunendos, violence
- started self-censorship of Hollywood
New Looney Toons characters are being redone now, they are going to be re-introduced
movie "The Ring" was very popular with cheerleaders in past that Anitra was sponsor for
- different level of "reality" in today's scary movies
1940s, Bugs Bunny created on a wild hair
- 1943, UPA formed after a strike at Disney
- Mr Magoo was their most famous characters
Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Flintsones
The Jetsons: first prime time animation comedy (shown in evening)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
One of most important movement started in Japan: Anima
- Godzilla
- watch the Power Rangers, same type
Largest source is iFilm.com online
- feature length animation: first winner was Shreck
Thomas Edision predicted in 1925 that motion pictures would replace textbooks
1940s in response to wartime, overhead projectors and filmtrips were used for war briefings
- then these were used in classrooms
Movie "The Power of One"
- about racial segregation
also "Stand and Deliver"
Movie: Sky Captain and the world of tommorrow