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Why is a film director important?
The Importance of a Film Director
A Filmmaker’s Guide to Michael Bay
Silent Cinema (locate this article in Schoology)
The World’s First Handheld Movie Camera Was Shaped Like a Gun
A Very Short History of the Transition from Silent to Sound Movies
Buster Keaton biography
#1
Buster Keaton biography
#2
Charlie Chaplin biography
The Grapes of Wrath
: What's the Big Deal?
Roger Ebert review:
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
-
background info
Busby Berkeley’s Unsurpassed Dances
Singin in the Rain
-
Review #1
Review #2
AFI's 25 greatest movie musicals of all time
Art of the Whip Pan Shot: Motivating Your Swish Pan Effects & Transitions
13 Wild Facts About
Rebel Without a Cause
TCM's review:
Rebel Without a Cause
James Dean set to star in new film through digital resurrection
Types of Lenses
Don’t Assume You Know the Zoom
The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
10 things you (probably) never knew about the shower scene in
Psycho
The Graduate
- background info
The Graduate
- National Film Registry review
In the Heat of the Night
at 51: still incredibly innovative
In the Heat of the Night
- Mississippi Encyclopedia
American Graffiti
: THR's 1973 Review
American Graffiti
, George Lucas’s last film before Star Wars
A Film to Remember:
American Graffiti
(1973)
Jaws
(1975) - a film review
How to Shoot The Best Car Chase Scene [Mad Max: Fury Road Example]
When Hollywood Learned to Talk, Sing and Dance
Deconstructing the Scene:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Stanislavsky System
Case Study: Jack Nicholson’s Method Acting
The Ultimate Guide to Film Credits Order Hierarchy
10 Reasons Why Hitchcock Will Always Be One of the Great Directors
Psycho
and its Music
NYTimes'
Vincent Canby reviews
Rear Window
TCM's intro to
Rear Window
#1
and
#2
Academy Awards Database
The Studio Era
The End of the Studio Era
Every Frame a Painting
archive of a couple dozen videos on random film topics
100
most profitable films ever made, adjusted for inflation
Videos
What is Bayhem?
Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History #1
The First Movie Camera: Crash Course Film History #2
A Concise History of the Origins of Cinema
The Birth of a Nation
(introduction to the film)
1927:
The Jazz Singer
- How The Movies Learnt To Talk
Introduction to Foley and Sound Effects for Film
Sound Example
The Secret World of Foley
Sound FX for
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sound Editing vs Sound Mixing — What’s the Difference?
Difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing
Ten Great Uses of Color
Cuts and Transitions 101
The Art of Rack Focus
Cinematographer Explains 3 Different Camera Lenses
The Ten Best Cinematographers
PURE CINEMA: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Hitchcock/
Psycho
background
Psycho
analyzed
J Cut & L Cut
Judy Garland - Mini Biography
The Wes Anderson Style
Children of Men
: Don't Ignore The Background
Atonement
camera operator Peter Robinson
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