Curated Video
First movie ever made 'the arrival of the train' (1896)
This footage of the "Arrival of a Train" is one of the most enduring images of the earliest years of cinema. The often-repeated accounts of the startled reactions to this movie from early audiences, along with the ways that such...
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The skyscrapers of New York (1906)
The story involves a construction foreman who fires one of his crew for fighting, which leads the disgruntled employee to steal. He then cause the blame to be put on the foreman, who is finally exonerated when the thief is exposed. All...
XKA Digital
Don't get too emotionally attached to a project
An acknowledged industry veteran, one of the UK's leading and most successful independent film distributors. With more than 30 years experience in UK film distribution and acquisitions, during which time he released some 550+ films such...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Video Art
What is video art? How is it any different from all the other moving pictures that are apparently not-art? Let's explore its history and present.
Crash Course
Crash Course Film Production #14: To Film School or Not to Film School
Should you go to film school? Great question? But there aren't necessarily a lot of direct answers. Do you want to go to Hollywood? Do you want to make movies in your spare time? Do you want to learn about world cinema? Do you want to be...
Crash Course
Crash Course Film History: Preview
This video is a preview of a 16 episode crash course on film history. [1:29]
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Crash Course Film History #1: Movies Are Magic
This video focuses on how early movies were made using the phi phenomenon, an illusion of motion created when still pictures were viewed quickly. The history of still pictures began with the camera obscura, Daguerreotype, Eastman's...
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Crash Course Film History #5: The Language of Film
This video focuses on the language of film including narrative stories and parallel action. He discusses the advances made by Edwin S. Porter and his film The Great Train Robbery. [9:29]
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Crash Course Film History #6: The Birth of the Feature Film
This video focuses on D.W. Griffith and the birth of the feature film. [10:10]
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Crash Course Film History #7: German Expressionism
This video focuses on German Expressionism in film; during World War I the government took all the film production studios and put them together to form UFA. The use of Mise-en-scene in the movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" changed the...
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Crash Course Film History #8: Soviet Montage
This video focuses on the Soviet Montage, a government-controlled film industry called Narkompros, that used cinema as a powerful tool to influence social and political ideas. They created the first film school, VGIK: State Institute of...
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Crash Course Film History #9: The Silent Era
This video focuses on the Hollywood Scandals in the Silent Era. It explains the rise in movie studios, contracts, advances, and leaders of the silent films era. [9:15]
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Crash Course Film History #10: Breaking the Silence
This video focuses on the breaking of silence in movies with the invention of sound on film and disc allowing for the synchronization of picture and sound. [9:36]
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Crash Course Film History #11: The Golden Age of Hollywood
This video focuses on The Golden Age of Hollywood, the late 1920s to the late 1950s. It explains the large movie studios and what types of shows they played. It also discusses technicolor and CinemaScope. [9:55]
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Crash Course Film History #12: Independent Cinema
This video focuses on the Independent Film including Italian Neo-Realism, French New Wave, and other independent filmmakers around the world. The New Hollywood Cinema lasted from 1967-1980. [10:29]
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Crash Course Film History #13: Home Video
This video focuses on home video and how it transformed the movie industry with 8-millimeter film, Beta, VHS, DVDs, Blueray, and streaming services. [10:18]
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Crash Course Film History #14: World Cinema Part 1
This video focuses on World Cinema from Asia including Japanese films from anime to horror and period dramas to Kaiju films are still popular around the globe. It explains films from mainland China's epics and Hong Cong's martial arts...
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Crash Course Film History #15: World Cinema Part 2
This video focuses on world cinema including Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, and Nigeria; Latin America: Cuba and Brazil, and Iran in the Middle East. These countries used their movies to tell their own stories and establish new,...
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Crash Course Film History #16: Experimental and Documentary Films
This video [10:21] focuses on the history of experimental and documentary films. Experimental films reject the techniques and goals of the narrative film, aiming to evoke a specific mood, thought, or emotion. Documentary films use a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, 'Suspense'
In 1913 you begin to see the dawn of the narrative film with a film suspense directed by Louis Weber and Phillip Smalley. It's the story of a young mother who lives in a very remote area in a home that is also managed by their housemaid....