Films Screened
History of Cinema 1895-1941


a trip to the moon | 1902 | georges melies

the great train robbery | 1903 | edwin s. porter

the lonely villa | 1909 | d.w. griffith

the new york hat | 1912 | d.w. griffith

the rink| 1916 | charlie chaplin

one week| 1920 | buster keaton

greed | 1924 | erich von stroheim

the cabinet of dr. caligari | 1919 | robert wiene

the last laugh | 1924 | f.w murnau

ballet mechanique | 1924 | fernand leger

entr'acte | 1924 | rene clair

duck soup (excerpt) | 1933 | marx bros.

un chien andalou | 1929 | luis bunuel/salvador dali

snow white (betty boop) | 1933 | max & dave fleischer

tin pan alley cats | 1943 | bob clampett

olympia: diving sequence | 1938 | leni riefenstahl

batttleship potemkin | 1925 | sergei eisenstein

the man with the movie camera | 1929 | dziga vertov

the passion of joan of arc | 1928 | carl-theodor dreyer

color box | 1935 | len lye

composition in blue | 1933 | oscar fischinger

morocco | 1930 | joseph von sternberg

trouble in paradise | 1932 | ernst lubitsch

easy living | 1937 | mitchell leisen

rules of the game | 1939 | jean renoir

citizen cane | 1941 | orson welles

papers
We had to write 2 papers for this class. My chosen topics were:
1. Exploring the Cinematic tequniques used in Caligari

2. Comparing two Romantic films: Morocco and Trouble in Paradise

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