1. Introduction to MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience (2007)

[@6dark6alex6]

So glad MIT is publishing these

[@nearthound9811]

This series of lectures from David Thorburn are FABulous!! His exuberance about the topic is infectious....Now I watch films in an entirely different...and much richer...way. Thank you!!

[@yeetsac]

l😊l you

[@sudevsen]

Great to see Hayo Miyazaki teaching film

[@MAronson]

Dubbing by Wallace Shawn.

[@SpiritansManila]

This is prof David Thorburn

[@leonilbrianorzal7179]

This is the type of lecture I would clap to at the very end.

[@akshayasthana7795]

So good to see Narendra Modi finally making sense

[@trickytech9191]

😂😅😝😋 I from India Are you student of film school Akshay bhaiya Because I passed 12th this year and want to be become a film editor and director can you guide me for future I from Maharashtra india

[@joy_1703]

Sorry but don't insult this teacher...😉😉😉

[@gogetcha5430]

Thank you very much for the opportunity to be a part of the listeners of this great course of David Thorburn!

[@uma_r]

The segment between @41:00 and @42:00 is an eye opener.

[@doolatti]

Thanks for sharing this content! Education must be free and for all! With love from Kazakhstan

[@ocorvobranco]

Esse tipo de conteúdo é um ouro que precisa de carinho. ❤️

[@jerrymoss6650]

Thank you for the course. The lectures may be retitled as: 01 of 23 - Introduction to 'The Film Experience' [MIT 21L011, 2007, 51 min.+] 02 of 23 - Keaton [2007, 57 min.+] 03 of 23 - Chaplin, Part I [2007, 52 min.+] 04 of 23 - Chaplin, Part II [2007, 1 hr. 2 min.+] 05 of 23 - Film as Global & Cultural Form Montage, Mise en Scène [48 min.] 06 of 23 - German Film, Murnau [48 min.+] 07 of 23 - The Studio Era [55 min.+] 08 of 23 - The Work of Movies - Capra & Hawks [56 min.+] 09 of 23 - Alfred Hitchcock [49 min.+] 10 of 23 - Shadow of a Doubt, 'Rear Window' [54 min.+] 11 of 23 - The Musical [45 min.+] 12 of 23 - The Musical (continued) [58 min.+] 13 of 23 - The Western [44 min.] 14 of 23 - The Western (continued) [59 min.+] 15 of 23 - American Film in the 1970s, Part I [2007, 52 min.+] 16 of 23 - American Film in the 1970s, Part II [2007, 55 min.+] 17 of 23 - Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism [47 min.] 18 of 23 - Renoir [53 min.+] 19 of 23 - Italian Neorealism, Part I [2007, 54 min.+] 20 of 23 - Italian Neorealism, Part II [2007, 50 min.+] 21 of 23 - Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, 'The 400 Blows' [56 min.+] 22 of 23 - Kurosawa and Rashomon [58 min.+] 23 of 23 - Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact [42 min.+]

[@lizg6515]

I watched all of this fantastic series and am having a hard time finding similar lecture series like this.

[@maxheadrom3088]

around 43:00 According to the famous Peter Bogdanovich book, the first scene shot with a moving camera was created by Alan Dwan. Dwan was a GE salesman who worked selling Sodium Vapor light bulbs to Hollywood studios. One day he had a conversation with the great Electric Engineer Charles 'Proteus' Steinmentz. He told Steinmetz that he really liked the time he spent inside the sudios but did not like his jobt at GE that much. Steinmentz askee him if he had any experience with acting (he had done theater in high shcool) and suggested he should do what he liked and try to find a job in Hollywood. Allan Dwan directed the first Zorro film ever!

[@raybroomall8383]

The explanation of the reason for point up and to screen right only serves to emphasize the comedy of the act. You are a very physically expressive speaker which makes for lectures that are interesting beyond their content. thanks

[@film_magician]

Love this. 22 more to go.

[@nannybells]

'the woman' in a beast at bay is mary pickford, wish the lecturer would acknowledge her since she was so important in early film history.

[@bourdieufan7433]

brilliant prof

[@vhr]

great lecture

[@maxheadrom3088]

Photographers and Directors of Photography did learn about film chemistry in college. (at least in the good ones)

[@kidsundance404]

Omg! Thank you so much ❤

[@AshokKumar-wy8yb]

Thank you MIT and thank you Prof. Thorburn for this lecture video..On cinema I see lectures of Prof Thorburn only..are there any other lectures by other professors on the subject of cinema /TV/Media/..?

[@dr.galapagoats9596]

there are a few on the mit open courseware page under philosophy. philosophy in/on film. here is one ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-213-philosophy-of-film-fall-2004/index.htm

[@AshokKumar-wy8yb]

Thank you so much indeed. I tried mailing Prof Thorburn but I am not sure whether he got my mail...I thought it would be nice to be in touch.

[@luisantoniososavonputlitz5575]

Thank you so much! This is very interesting. =)

[@johndevadas1933]

0:40 When the professor asked, "Why would we think of film as a form of chemistry?" - I thought the answer he was looking for was the Walter White quote from the Breaking Bad pilot: "...technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change." to tie it to this quote, film in a sense is a study of society, usually the outliers, and is a study of the changes these characters go through.

[@alirezased2673]

My answer was that like how the laws of atoms, particles, and change are fundamental in our world, so are the imaginary particles within the world created by a filmmaker, especially when you consider the art of animation.

[@anshumaanraj1590]

Chaplin is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in cinema

[@driziiD]

the education i craved ❤️

[@drendelous]

the elephant broke my heart. you should have warned that there would be such a cruel scene.

[@GIR9595]

I mean he did say that the clip would show an elephant getting electrocuted to death but yeah pretty intense stuff

[@edscmidt5193]

How else are you gonna know what type of current is dangerous

[@davehoare8113]

The Fred Ott Principal applies to KZbin as well. How long did it take to go from being a platform for cute cat videos to a learning hub to share information on complex topics?

[@reecef9869]

Poor Greg.

[@fintonmainz7845]

Excellent

[@JasonDeline]

Does anyone have a film viewing list for this course? It appears the students were instructed to watch certain films at certain junctures, such as The Great Train Robbery. I'd love a complete list of the films, and when to watch them in relation to these lectures. Thank you.

[@mitocw]

See the Film & Readings section of the course materials on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F13. Best wishes on your studies!

[@JasonDeline]

@@mitocw Got it, thanks!

[@drendelous]

is there something equal to this on animation?

[@durgesh1127]

thanks for professor Miyazaki

[@1hc05ol]

Thank you

[@sh59938]

I’m glad to be watching this on KZbin bc if I was in the class I’d be afraid this guy is going to punch me

[@uma_r]

That guy at @37:45, world's first method actor?

[@godalbino90]

Would you guys make an updated version or not?

[@carrito1981]

"Maybe there are Taliban cultures that dream of being free of movies..." I cackled hard on this line XD

[@jespereriksson3305]

Is there a playlist for all these that I missed?

[@mitocw]

kzbin.info/aero/PLUl4u3cNGP63wurgwdJKo6UEYBWDLnmCj

[@nickcurtishennen]

where do I get list of films to w please?

[@mitocw]

ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-experience-fall-2013/films-readings/ Best wishes on your studies!

[@prasunmukherjee2600]

This is Excellent . Have a question - does MIT have any script writing course !! Thanks

[@mitocw]

Hmmm... For script writing we have a few but probably not in the direction you are looking for since you are commenting on a film course. We have writing for educational videos: MIT 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, IAP 2015; on MIT OpenCourseWare at:ocw.mit.edu/20-219IAP15 KZbin playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLUl4u3cNGP61PvFQDWp8FW_1iMgBf6LCY. We also have a course on playwriting: ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-604-playwriting-i-spring-2005/. Sorry we don't have more. We hope some of it is of some help. Best wishes!

[@prasunmukherjee2600]

@@mitocw Thank You

[@asheer5854]

Why does he look like Narendara Modi

[@trickytech9191]

😂 true

[@ashlynnundlall]

Who is the target market for this course mit? Is it aimed at people pursuing careers in front or behind the camera?

[@mitocw]

This instructor clip might give you a better idea ("Why Study FIlm?"): kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HTmHVqn7yIoKM For more info, check out the "This Course" section on MIT OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-experience-fall-2013/this-course-at-mit/

[@skirmisherr5568]

Try this link if the link in channel's comment doesn't work-kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HTmHVqn7yIoKM

[@Mrinal300]

very helpful😅

[@trfyhrghty4222]

👍

[@memx3965]

Rip that elephant tho

[@drendelous]

Memx the prof must be very excited telling them this but that part is cruel anyway. and he could have chosen not to show that

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz4676]

@@drendelous Sometimes cruel things are necessary. Some of the greatest documentaries are about sickening subject matters. Or the bull getting slaughtered in Apocalypse Now.

[@langa1533]

🤔

[@tedbreckner]

This is scandalous. You have completely ignored the fact that the Lumiere brothers in Lyon, France developed the first movie camera and made the first film (workers leaving the factory, along with the garden hose gimmick you did show but did not attribute) You should be ashamed of yourself as a lecturer.

[@crvbvbv]

I think that the essence of the lecture was to indicate trends in the evolution of cinema, not in the name dropping. That’s probably why he ignored some

[@steve6012]

Threshold for outrage gets lower and lower

[@andy68916]

There were multiple Lumiere brothers clips

[@HerbertTowers]

What a load of waffle. Is this really a degree (graduate?) course?