21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Film clips shown in lecture

1. The Silent Era:
   • Fred Ott's Sneeze
   • Arrival of a Train
   • Sprinkler joke short
   • The Dam Family
   • Black Diamond Express
     
     
2. Keaton and Chaplin:
   • Buster Keaton's Cops - Opening sequence with Keaton behind bars, scene with bomb and the scene where he see-saws.
   • Short sequence from Keystone Cops - cops dragged behind the car.
   • Sherlock JR. - Scene with the motorcycle.
   • Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp - ending.
   • Chaplin's Gold Rush - Thanksgiving scene where Charlie serves and eats the shoe.
   • Chaplin's City Lights - Final scene where the formerly blind woman recognizes him.
     
     
3. Genres:
   • Hitchcock's Psycho - Shower scene.
   • Battleship Potempkin - Odessa steps sequence.
   • Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Sleepwalking monster takes woman.
     
     
4. Hollywood in the 1930s :
   • Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck's entrance into the house of the scholars.
   • The Lady Eve: Barbara Stanwyck studying and annexing Henry Fonda.
     
     
5. American Musical Film :
   • Busby Berkeley - sequence: Dick Powell and a universe of women.
   • Top Hat - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance to "Cheek to Cheek."
     
     
6. American Film in the 1970s :
   • McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Gunfight on the bridge, young man is killed.
   • The Long Goodbye - The ending where Eliot Gould kills his friend.
     
     
7. Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism:
   • Boudu Saved from Drowning - The ending from the wedding onwards.
   • Grand Illusion - Dinner scene in camp near the beginning.
     
     
8. Italian Neorealism :
   • Bicycle Thieves - Opening sequence.
   • Rome, Open City - Boys return from sabotage.
   • Umberto D - Old men on a bus.