GMDS 19908L meets at 7pm every Wednesday night during the semester in Scovel 105 to watch and discuss a film. See the film schedule with links and accompanying worksheets below.
Week 1 – Wednesday 8/19
Lumière, Workers Leaving the Factory (1895) – here on YouTube
Lumière, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895) – here on YouTube
Alice Guy, The Cabbage Fairy (1900) – here on YouTube
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
- Eadweard Muybridge’s primitive motion studies (1877-85)
- Louis and Auguste Lumière early films (1895 and following)
- Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscopes (1894-97) (serpentine dances, a cockfight, a bedroom full of seminary girls engaged in a pillow fight and the notorious first screen kiss)
- Georges Méliès, A Trip To The Moon (1902)
- Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Worksheet for The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films
Week 2 – Wednesday 8/26
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene, Germany) – here on Kanopy
Week 3 – Wednesday 9/2
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 4 – Wednesday 9/9
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 5 – Wednesday 9/16
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 6 – Wednesday 9/23
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 7 – Wednesday 9/30
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Fall Break
No film this week – have a great break! And get out to the movies if you have a chance
Week 8 – Wednesday 10/14
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 9 – Wednesday 10/21
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 10 – Wednesday 10/28
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 11 – Wednesday 11/4
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 12 – Wednesday 11/11
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Week 13 – Wednesday 11/18
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy
Thanksgiving
No film – have a great break!
Week 14 – Wednesday 12/2 (last day of classes)
The Great Train Robbery: And Other Early Short Films – here on Kanopy