The first moving images and silent cinema — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
The first moving images and silent cinema
The timeline of film history
What you need to know
The Lumière brothers' first public screenings of moving images in Paris in 1895, and what the earliest films showed.
Silent cinema from 1895 to 1927: from short films to feature films, and how the foundations of filmmaking were laid: cinematography, lighting, continuity editing, mise-en-scène and filming on location.
Intertitles, live music in cinemas, and the growth of the star system.
Links to the set films, such as Singin' in the Rain's story of the end of the silent era.
Short practice questions with answers, in the style of Question 4.
Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
