Week 12 hwk

1) What was the name of the film made by Edwin S Porter that made use of a double-exposure to show a train window view of passing landscape?

The Great Train Robbery

2) Who invented the traveling matte shot in 1916?

Frank Williams.

3) How many weeks did it take to animate the main character in 1933’s KING KONG?

It took 55 weeks to animate.

4) Which film made use of the ‘slit scan’ process in the 1960s?

2001: A Space Day

5) In his essay “Industrial Memory” theorist Mark Dery argues that the silver fluid T1000 cyborg character represents a ‘masculine recoil’ – but from what?

The ‘masculine recoil’ was from the feminine representation of technology from Terminator 2.

6) Tim Recuber in his essay “Immersion Cinema” describes the key idea – that of immersion cinema itself – what is it? What makes it unique?

Recuber describes immersion cinema as cinema in which the film and its message, visuals, and audio surround the entire audience. It is unique because it allows for the audience to be enveloped within the story and makes the audience become entirely immersed.

7) In the special effects history links, in the Time magazine history of special effects, there is a description of ‘motion control’ cameras developed for “Star Wars” in the 1970s. What is motion control?(1 paragraph)

Motion control is the use of cameras to track motions and be able to repeat the exact same motions. In the movie Star Wars, the camera crew was able to utilize this motion control in order to give the film it’s special effects sequences. At the time that Star Wars was filmed, the technological advancements in cinema caused the invention of motion control.

8) Out of the 14 minutes of Jurassic Park’s dinosaur footage, how many minutes were computer generated imagery or CGI?

6 minutes consisted of CGI.

9) In the ‘denofgeek’ website, what is the name of the film that features an army of sword fighting skeletons, made in 1963?

Jason and the Argonauts.

10) In the ‘denofgeek’ site, which 2005 film used a special effects shot to sell the idea of a remake of a famous science fiction story to Steven Spielberg?

War of the Worlds