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Costume In this scene, Don Lockwood is wearing a grey suit and tie with grey trousers and a grey hat. All of these subdued colours amplify the bright colours that everyone is so used to seeing throughout the film. I think this may have been done to show how his clothes contrast to his mood as the whole song is all about how he has suddenly become happier than he ever has been before. The shoes in which he is wearing allow him to tap dance in the rain, he is wearing the appropriate footwear in order to dance properly. As well as this, the scene begins with him and Kathy, Kathy is wearing a raincoat and rain hat, this is showing the weather conditions as well as adding a hint of colour to the scene as her raincoat is bright yellow. All of the other characters in the scene are in raincoats which makes Don stand out as being different as he is the only one without one. The policeman who comes up to Don is identifiable by his costume, we know it is a policeman as soon as he comes up to ...

Costume In this scene from the Gold Rush, it is obvious that the costume chosen is to imply the extreme weather conditions that the characters are in. A sense of comedy is added here also as although the two other characters are dressed in thick coats and hats, Charlie is dressed in his usual attire however in this scene doesn't seem to be suffering from the cold even though there is a blizzard going on outside. This makes a contrast between the three characters, it makes Charlie more recognisable as when the two other characters are dressed in winter wear it is harder to tell them apart, whereas Charlie can be easily recognised just by the clothes that he is wearing. Props The props used in this scene also highlights the desperation in which the three men are in. The piece of meat in which Charlie and 'Big Jim' are fighting over shows just how hungry they are and by adding a slapstick fight over it when it seems like Charlie's hand is being eaten, it takes ...

The Great Train Robbery- Edwin s. Porter 1903 What is the basic plotline? This short film begins with a man sitting at his desk when two other men enter, here they force the telegraph operator to send a false message to the train so the train will make an unscheduled stop. In the very next scene, the bandits board the train and the robbers enter the mail car, and after a fight, they open the safe. In the next scene, two of the robbers throw the driver and fireman off the train and take it over. Next, the robbers stop the train and hold up the passengers. One runs away and is shot. The robbers escape aboard the engine, and in the subsequent scene we see them mount horses and ride off. Meanwhile, the telegraph operator on the train sends a message calling for assistance. In a saloon, a newcomer is being forced to dance at gunpoint, but when the message arrives, everyone grabs their rifles and exit. Cut to the robbers pursued by a posse. There is a shoot-out, and the robbers are ki...

Long before the Coen brothers, the Weinstein brothers or the Warner brothers entered the scene, the original brothers of film  were the Lumière brothers. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Auguste Lumière who was born on October 19 1862 in Besaçon, France.  Auguste and his older brother Louis (5th Oct 1864) are credited with capturing the world’s first motion picture films and holding the world’s first public screening (and thus too was born the practice of charging admission).  Educated at La Martiniere, Lyon’s largest technical high school, the Lumière brothers went on to work for their father, Antoine Lumière (1840–1911), an artist turned businessman who specialised in the manufacturing and selling of photographic equipment.  Thomas Edison’s peephole Kinetoscope invention in 1891 invited new possibilities in the photographic industry. Akin to the simulated running men we create by flicking through the pages of post-it note pads, the...