I've posted the grades for Discussions 2a and 2b.
Some observations/comments:
1) I thought you did a good job on a couple of films that are a bit more difficult to analyze as they are quite foreign to your experience. In fact, I purposefully inflated the grades a bit for Discussion 2b.
2) I was pleased that so many of you were pleasantly surprised by The Man with a Movie Camera. It is a a very different film. And I would categorize it as both an experimental film and a documentary. In fact, one student in a past class noted that it would be interesting to see a similar sort of the day in the life film from various decades and countries.
3) If you haven't read the Discussion link already, please do so. It's frustrating for me to give a B to someone who has two outstanding posts (you know who you are), but never makes the third posts necessary (along with meeting other conditions) for an A.
4) I think it's probably natural that we feel that we are much more liberal today than people were in the past, but that is not necessarily so.
5) One of the things that always strikes me about the earliest films is how the recent advances in technology have brought home movies to the masses. In fact, I'm sure many of you have much of your life documented on video.
6) Later this week, we will get to our first "talking" motion picture, but not quite yet.
7) In our next film, we get one of the most famous performances in silent motion picture history.
8) And for those of you who were longing for close-ups in The Camera of Dr. Caligari, let me just say this: You want close-ups, I'll give you close-up!
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