"Life of an American Firefighter" - The Life of an American Firefighter

Japanese: 《アメリカ消防夫の生活》 - あめりかしょうぼうふのせいかつ
"Life of an American Firefighter" - The Life of an American Firefighter


[What is American cinema?]
The beginning of American film as an industry is said to be the appearance of the "story picture," that is, a film that tells a story. It began with director ES Porter's Life of an American Fireman (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903), but Griffith developed and perfected the technique in his subsequent works after Dolly's Adventure (1908). For example, the close-up was first used in The Great Train Robbery, but it was used purely as a sensation-generating trick to make it look like the criminal was shooting from close to the audience.

*Some of the terminology used in "Life of an American Firefighter" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[アメリカ映画とは何か]
 アメリカ映画の産業としての始まりは,〈ストーリー・ピクチュア〉,すなわち,ストーリーを物語る映画の出現からとされる。それは,E.S.ポーター監督の《アメリカ消防夫の生活》(1902),《大列車強盗》(1903)に始まるが,グリフィスは,《ドリーの冒険》(1908)以降の諸作品でその手法を発展させ,完成させた。例えば,クローズアップは《大列車強盗》で初めて使われたが,それは犯人が観客席の間近から射撃しているように見せるための,いわば純粋にセンセーションを引き起こすトリックとして使われたにすぎない。…

※「《アメリカ消防夫の生活》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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