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Nosferatu
Nosferatu
Use of shadow and silhouette in an iconic scene from the 1922 film
Nosferatu
. This visual technique is typical of German Expressionist film.
Prana Film/Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)
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Follow a director as he films a motion picture adaption of Eugène Ionesco's The New Tenant
The vampire rising from a coffin in
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Take a look at a video clip from Winsor McCay's “Gertie on Tour”
How talkies replaced silent films
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montage
Why do movie theatres serve popcorn?
Examine how to direct a film adaption of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph”
Study film-making techniques employed in an adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints
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