Handouts and Links: CST 151 (Film Appreciation)

• Contacting the Instructor: Why and How?

• Attendance and Class Participation

• Film Viewing List

• A Basic Film Chronology

• Important Films and Film Clips on YouTube

• info on the Lumiere Brothers

• info on Edwin S. Porter

• info on Georges Méliès

• info on D.W. Griffith

• info on Charlie Chaplin

• info on Buster Keaton

• info on German Expressionism

• info on the transition to sound

• How Does Film Sound Work?

• 1939: Hollywood’s Finest Hour

• A Brief History of Animation

• The Many Faces of Orson Welles

• info on Orson Welles

• an excellent NYT article on "The Screening of America"

• The Internet Movie Database

• You've heard of speed dating? Click here for some speed film viewing!

• a very cool film site here

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