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Practically speaking the artistic maturing of the cinema was the single-handed achievement of David W. Griffith. Before Griffith
Practically speaking the artistic maturing of the cinema was the single-handed achievement of David W. Griffith. Before Griffith
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2014-01-13
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Practically speaking the artistic maturing of the cinema was the single-handed achievement of David W. Griffith. Before Griffith, photography in dramatic films consisted of little more than placing the actors before a stationary camera and showing them in full length as they would have, appeared on stage. From the beginning of his career as a director, however, Griffith, because of his love of Victorian painting, employed composition. He conceived of the camera image as having a foreground and a rear ground, as well as the middle distance preferred by most directors. By 1910 he was using close-ups to reveal significant details of the scene or of the acting and extreme long shots to achieve a sense of spectacle and distance. His appreciation of the camera’s possibilities produced novel dramatic effects. By splitting an event into fragments and recording each from the most suitable camera position, he could significantly vary the emphasis from camera shot to camera shot.
Griffith also achieved dramatic effects by means of creative editing. By putting images together and varying the speed and rhythm of their presentation, he could control the dramatic intensity of the events as the story progressed. Despite the reluctance of his producers, who feared that the public would not be able to followed a plot that was made up of such juxtaposed images. Griffith persisted, and experimented as well with other elements of cinematic syntax that have become standard ever since. These included the flashback, permitting broad psychological and emotional exploration as well as narrative that was not chronological, and the crosscut between two parallel actions to heighten suspense and excitement. In thus exploiting fully the possibilities of editing, Griffith transposed devices of the Victorian novel to film and gave him mastery of time as well as space.
Besides developing the cinema’s language Griffith immensely broadened its range and treatment of subjects. His early output was remarkably eclectic: it included not only the standard comedies, melodramas, westerns, and thrillers, but also such novelties as adaptations from Browning and Tennyson, and treatments of social issues. As his successes mounted, his ambitions grew, and with them the whole of American cinema. When he remade Enoch Arden in 1911, he insisted that a subject of such importance could not be treated in the then conventional length of one reel. Griffith’s introduction of the American-made multireel picture began an immense revolution. Two years later, Judith of Bethulia, an elaborate historicophilosophical spectacle, reached the unprecedented length of four reels, or one hour’s running time. From our contemporary viewpoint, the pretensions of this film may seem a trifle ludicrous, but at the time it provoked endless debate and discussion and gave a new intellectual respectability to the cinema.
It can be inferred from the passage that before 1910 the normal running time of a film was
选项
A、15 minutes or less
B、between 15 and 30 minutes
C、between 30 and 45 minutes
D、between 45 minutes and 1 hour
答案
A
解析
细节推断题。原句中的与选项A中的对应。根据尾段第六句可知新片达到了前所未有的四盘胶片的长度,即一个小时。传统的电影只有一盘胶片的长度,而四盘胶片放一个小时,那么据此可计算出传统电影的长度不超过15分钟。故答案为A。
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