Chapter Overall
Overall, I thought the chapter was very interesting and did a good job explaining the history of cinema. To see how far film has come from only one person at a time being able to view movies through a kinetoscope to projecting incredibly edited films on a screen I found very intriguing. Also, the way photography was invented from some guy determined to win a bet and ended up inventing series photography which would essentially influence photography as a whole. Now we have Hollywood and even a New Hollywood which produce action packed blockbuster films has all came from just something that seems so simple.
Suspense
I watched the clip Suspense made by Lois Weber and I wasn't expecting it to be great, but I was shocked. The film wasn't hard to follow, and I understood the story pretty well which is normally difficult for me to do with silent movies. A woman seems to leave her child with a caretaker without notice and a man notices the women leave and decides to try and kill the caretaker and child inside. The cut scenes with words were helpful, and the split shot editing seemed very advanced for that era which enhanced the film greatly.
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