1. Introduction to MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience (2007)
MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
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Instructor: David Thorburn
Introducing film as a cultural form, an institution and an art. Beginning as a novelty without conventions, film developed a unique language and grew into an embedded social norm. Examples: Fred Ott's Sneeze, Great Train Robbery.
00:00 OCW Intro
00:26 What is film?
17:42 Think away iPods
26:19 The Fred Ott Principle
30:23 Three phases of media evolution
45:55 "And there was Charlie": film as a cultural form
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