I have an interesting relationship with movies, sitting down and watching them I am terrible at – I usually fall asleep. I stopped going to the movies because I didn’t want to pay 12 bucks to take a nap. That being said my older brother was a film major at Ithaca College, which is in the top 5 film schools in the country with a lot of famous alumni and professors, so I have a lot of knowledge of them. ( which is how I knew the Jaws question in class). Most of my knowledge in horror movies as that is what my brothers focus is in.

Even though my relationship with movies isn’t the best I have seen those early films including a trip to the moon. I know the film used to be on Netflix but I’m not sure if it’s still on. I know we talked a bit on it in class but made in 1902 and being just under 20 minutes it was revolutionary. It’s amazing to watch and thinking about watching this as the first real film ever must have been a wild experience.

The textbook again does a good job of explaining the mechanics behind films and how the technology works. I think the part on silent films is super interesting and I wish there was more on it. It’s something we don’t really see nowadays but is a cool genera. One movie recently that used it was ‘A Quite Place’, it was so successful because it removed the sound of movies that we have gotten used of.