The Great Train Robbery And Edwin Porter

The efficacious nature of films owes its prominent properties to the array of editing techniques. In the aforementioned films , editing techniques stabilizes the movie and

Edwin S. Porter was a filmmaker at Edison Manufacturing Company from 1898 to 1909. As a technician and a showman, he knew what the audiences were interested in while he was a touring projectionist. He employed new techniques and camera movements to boost visual communication, which became basic modes of filmmaking. For the decade, Porter was the most important and influential filmmaker in the US.

Over the many years of filmmaking, there is no doubt that classical Hollywood has made an interesting name for itself. The classical Hollywood style has become quite predictable in relation to film narrative because of their unique filmmaking choices using devices like continuity editing, three-point lighting, centered framing, and musical scores. When we think of a classic Hollywood film, we usually imagine a story with a happy ending. A phenomenal film that performs all these functions

In the time period, the use of backdrops, editing, and the approach in cinema all became apparent. Due to editing, movies became more refined and told a story. During editing, directors were able to make their material by changing angles of a scene, or just by taking the shot of the scene over.

Film became a storytelling and artistic medium due in large part to the introduction of editing. Although cuts in film date back to the late 1800's, editing became more sophisticated when D.W. Griffith's practices of parallel and continuity editing emphasized comprehensive structure, while Sergei Eisenstein's montage theory established the connection between shots and the emotional or intellectual response they can elicit. Purposeful editing has since become a critical component in cinematic language. In the early 1900's, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov created The Kuleshov Effect to demonstrate that an audience would assign meaning to the juxtaposition of shots. This experiment showed the importance of carefully choosing visuals and their placement. These theories of montage allowed filmmakers opportunities to “show, not tell”, a defining characteristic in the experimental film genre.

Throughout the beginning of time people have used art to express themselves. With each major, and minor, there is an artist that captures the world as it is around him. There are also artists that create fiction to give the world and escape from reality. The medium of art that will be discussed in this essay will be film. Since the invention of Thomas Jefferson kinecto graph and the Lumiere brothers cinemtograph, films have continued to be the most popular entertainment methods in France and America. Since historical events have somewhat of an impact on the content in film, this essay will take a look at the effects of films years before and after World II. World War II was one of the major historical events to have

Looking back at Casablanca in 1941, it is shocking to know that Humphrey Bogarts famous words “hears looking at you kid” was improvised on the spot. While this type of improvising is common today, it was taboo compared the structured and generic Golden Age of film (“Sorry Russell”). The studio system of the 1930s to 1960s dramatically changed the methods of film production, the types of movies made, and eventually caused its own demise.

What makes a person tick? Why does he do the things that he does? These questions, commonly asked about criminals, are relevant when evaluating Edward Pierce’s motives behind “Great Train Robbery.” Throughout The Great Train Robbery, Pierce refused to give up his plan for an “impossible” robbery, due to his incessant need to do something that it was deemed impossible.

In 1903, art has developed the world as a modern society in variety ways. The first movie theater, the Electric Theater, opened in Los Angeles. Lots of films are released like Alice in Wonderland, Life of an American Fireman, and The Great Train Robbery. Films that released in 1903 are regarded as a milestone in film history because of their unique ideas and camera works. Especially, The Great Train Robbery had inspired to modern movies by its camera movement, cross cutting, and innovative composite editing. Isabela Duncan, who was an American dancer and devoted her whole life for dancing, develops a free dance, which is a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Also, Pablo Picasso, the great painter, painted The Tragedy, La vie, and Portrait of Angel. This year is known as his ‘blue period’. The musical The Wizard of Oz opened on Broadway, which brought popularity of musical.

In The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce is the most credible because of his intelligence and knowledge of all the social classes in London. Pierce is able to charm the wealthy into finding out information of the trains and the location of the keys. Pierce is the mastermind of the entire robbery and makes his plan patiently and is able to change them when setbacks happen. Pierce is able to trick Chokee Bill, a pawnbroker, into telling the authorities that he is heading to Greenwich when he is really staying in London. Throughout the robbery and even in his arrest he is able to solve and get through every difficulty. “It is presumed that this whore was actually the actress Miss Miriam, and that in kissing Pierce she passed him the key to the

In “The myth of total cinema”, Bazin asserts that film produces reality with minimum human intervention, and as technology evolves, film will resemble reality with more fidelity and gives the example of sound addition. He talks about two types of films and filmmakers: the ones who believe in reality and the ones who believe in image.

“Why did you do it?” It is the ultimate question asked when confronting a guilty criminal. However, this question usually remains unanswered and up to interpretation. Committing the “crime of the century” takes a manipulative plan along with a clear motive. In Michael Crichton’s novel The Great Train Robbery, respectable gentleman Edward Pierce, was the mastermind behind the robbery in Victorian England so he could take pride for his successful schemes.

The release of Gordon Hollingshead and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer in 1927 marked the new age of synchronised sound in cinema. The feature film was a huge success at the box office and it ushered in the era David Bordwell describes as ‘Classical Hollywood Cinema’; Bordwell and two other film theorists (Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson) conducted a formalist analysis of 100 randomly selected Hollywood films from the years 1917 to 1960 in order to fully define this movement. Their results yielded that most Hollywood made films during that era were centred on, or followed, specific blueprints that formed the finished product. Through this analysis of Hollywood films the theorists were able to establish stylised conventions and modes of

No crime in British history has ever come close to the Great Train Robbery. It shocked the people of Britain as well as Scotland Yard who were bewildered by just how well executed it was and how a group of convicts managed to pull it off. They would make off with little over £2.6 million in a raid that would take as little as 46 minutes to execute. But these petty criminals would soon learn the price of their deeds as they would get 378 years in jail between them. But with any story there is a beginning and this tale will not fail to deliver excitement and fascination.

Film Industry has been expansively affected by the changes in technology. The mechanical and digital innovations give cause to the influence of equipment, distribution and the way in which films are made and consumed. New trends shape directors and filmmakers to expand creatively towards telling stories in motions. The film industry has developed to one of the most important tools of communication, it's cause so powerful affecting the way individuals and societies think, act and behave. Among the new Era approaching film, and seeing celluloid film fade is that of the Digital Era and a camera that saw celluloid films passing hastened.