Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality (1960)

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Title:
Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality
Date:
1960
Publisher:
New York : Oxford University Press
Volume:
Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality
Leaf #:
000407
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
September 12, 2024
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NOTES 317 instance, Steele MacKaye, a theatrical producer who died shortly before the arrival of the vitascopc, invented a "curtain of light" so as to produce such effects as the fade-in, the fade-out, and the dissolve (p. 143). 18. Sadoul, op. cit. p. 246. 19. Bessy and Duca, Louis Lumiere, inventeur, pp. 49-50. Sadoul, Histoire d'un art, p. 23. 20. Sadoul, L' Invention du cinema, pp. 222-4, 227. 21. Sadoul, ibid. p. 332, and Sadoul, Histoire d'un art, p. 24. 22. Sadoul, L'Invention du cinema, pp. 322, 328. 23. Ibid. p. 332. Langlois, "Notes sur Thistoire du cinema," La Revue du cinema, July 1948, vol. Ill, no. 15:10. 24. Quoted bv Bardeche and Brasillach, The History of Motion Pictures, p. 10. 25. Sadoul, L'Invention du cinema, p. 332. 26. Ibid. pp. 102, 201; esp. 205. 27. Ibid. pp. 324-6. 28. For Melies's technical innovations, see Sadoul, Les Pionniers du cinema, pp. 52-70. 29. Langlois, "Notes sur l'histoire du cinema," La Revue du cinema, July 1948, vol. Ill, no. 15:5. 30. Sadoul, op. cit. pp. 154, 166. 31. Sadoul, L'Invention du cinema, pp. 330-31. 32. Cf. Meyerhoff, Tonfilm und Wirklichkeit, pp. 1 3, 22. 33. Clair, Reflexion faite, p. 96; he made this statement in 1924. 34. Ibid. p. 150. 35. Vuillermoz, "Realisme et expressionisme," Cinema (Les cahiers du mois, 16/17), 1925, pp. 78-9. 36. See Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler, p. 240. 37. Berge, "Interview de Blaise Cendrars sur le cinema," Cinema (Les cahiers du mois, 16/17), 1925, p. 141. For the problems involved in the staging of actuality, see also Mauriac, L'Amour du cinema, p. 36, and Obraszow, "Film und Theater," in Von der Filmidee turn Drehbuch, p. 54. 38. Scheffauer, "The Vivifying of Space," The Freeman, Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 1920. 39. Eisenstein, Film Form, pp. 181-2. 40. See Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler, p. 68.