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 * Early Photography-** Invented in the first decades of the 19th century, photography seemed able to capture more detail and information than traditional mediums, such as painting and sculpting.Photography as a usable process goes back to the 1820s with the development of chemical photography. It was captured in black and white in the beginning.


 * Cross cutting:** The technique of intercutting a scene with portions of another, usually to make the film flow smoothly or to heighten suspense by adding simultaneous action. Cross-cutting has been used in films as early as the beginning of the 20th Century, in films such as //The Great Train Robbery// (1903), D.W. Griffith's //A Corner in Wheat// (1909), and Louis J. Gasnier's //The Runaway Horse// (1908).


 * Precursors to film-** Anything leading up to film. Photography, art, etc.


 * Persistance of Vision-** Is the event at which the eye produces an illusion of a movement when viewing motion pictures.
 * Kinetoscope-** An early motion picture exhibition machine that creates an illusion of movement by showing a strip of perforated film that contains sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter, it was first introduced by Thomas Edison in 1888 but mostly developed by William Dickson between 1889-1892


 * Kinetograph-** An early motion picture exhibition device. It was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components it was invented by thomas edison in 1888


 * "the Black Maria"-** Thomas Edison's theatre. One of the first movie theatre built.


 * Cinematograph:** Technique or art of motion picture photography.

====**Nickelodeons**- Nickelodeons, which were early motion picture theaters usually charging a nickel for admission, began appearing in 1905. They became very popular and by 1908 there was 8,000 nickelodeons throughout the U.S. Part of their success was contributed to the fact that all ages and people could go, such as women and children, and also that films were played all day allowing people to go when it was convenient for them. The popularity of Vaudevilles shifted to Nickelodeons in the early 1900's.====

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 * Dutch Angle-** A cinematic technique used to display the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed. To get the dutch angle is to tilt the camera to the side so that the shot is with the horizon at an angle at the bottom of the frame
 * German Expressionism:** This was film made in early 1900s Europe. It tended to be darker and gloomier than the early American silent films. Because there was very little money, the sets and effects were not as good as those of American films.
 * Film Grammar:** It can be compared to writing, a frame is a single still shot image, like a letter. a shot is a single continuous recording by a camera, like a word. a scene is a series of shots, like a sentence. a sequence is a series of scenes put together, like a paragraph.


 * Hand-Tinting-** When parts of the film are colored by hand.


 * Slapstick Humor-** Slapstick is a type of comedy that they use ivolving exaggerated movements and physical violence or activities. When watching silent films there aare many movies that involve slapstick humor, some are "policemans little Run" and "The Kid."slapstick hummor was the way they would get people to laugh without having to say something funny especially when you are watching a silent film. It was a good way to get people to laugh and to humor them.