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Reading

At the dawn of cinema in the 1980s, audiences were fascinated by everyday actions caught on film: a train pulling into the station, a family eating breakfast, and soldiers marching in a parade. Then the French filmmaker George Melies demonstrated that films could do far more than merely record everyday life. Melies, a professional magician and theater operator, decided that the new medium could be used effectively in his magic act. After much experimentation with a moving-pictures camera, he realized that film could be manipulated in countless ways. In time, he developed such new techniques as the fade-out, overlap dissolve, stop action, superimposition, double exposure, fast and slow motion, animation, and a host of other devices that he used with invention and wit. Melies transformed the cinema into a storytelling medium. At a time when most filmmakers were content to photograph the real world, Melies was creating his own fantasy world. In his specially built studio near Paris, he produces more than a thousand films between 1896 and 1914. They ranged from brief shorts that were one minute long to much longer films that ran for twenty minutes. The longer films included Cinderella (1899) and A Trip to the Moon (1920).
Very popular in their day, the trick films of Melies were shown, often without his permission, all over Europe and North America starting around 1900. At that time, the films were regarded as charming and witty, and Melies was respected as the first artist of cinema. Although primitive by today's standards, the films of Melies revealed the cinema's unique and almost limitless possibilities for trickery and special effects possibilities that continue to evolve with today's computer technology.

Listening
George Melies invented several techniques that have now become basics of filmmaking. One of these is the special effect of stop-action photography. Melies discovered stop action almost by accident . He bought a camera and started filming everything in sight-crowds, traffic, fire engines-anything that moved. One day, While he was filming a truck moving down the street, his camera jammed. By the time he got the camera working again, there was a hearse where the truck had been before. Later, when he watched the film, what he saw was a truck turning magically into a hearse. So, it was by chance-a camera jamming-that he invented stop action.
Another techniques Melies introduced was animation, which we can see in his most famous film, A Trip to the Moon, In the animated sequence, we see the moon in the distance and a spaceship moving toward it. As the spaceship moves closer, the moon becomes larger and larger until it's giant-sized. The moon gradually takes on the shape of a living, grotesque, smiling face. Suddenly the spaceship lands in one of the moon's eyes. The animated face frowns and grimaces, and then huge tears flow from the eye. It's really an amazing sequence, especially when you realize it was made over a hundred years ago!

Melies realized very early on that films were stories told in scenes, and scenes could be staged for the camera with the aid of scenery and elaborately designed costumes. One of his most important contributions was to extend the length of films to tell a story. Before this, a film was a single shot, complete in itself, and usually ran for only a minute or less. But Melies put several scenes together into a single story for the first time in 1899 in Cinderella. The various scenes in Cinderella were linked by dissolves—a technique where one scene fades out while the next scene appears behind it and grows clearer as the first one disappears. This technique is also called overlap dissolve because one scene overlaps another.

My essay
In this set of materials, in the reading passage the author explains about new actions that George Melies, France filmmaker, offers to the cinema and in the listening passage the professor supports them.

In the reading passage, the author explains that before Melies's films, all of movies showed just everyday actions but Melies believed that movie should not record just everyday life. He offered some innovation in his films like stop action, fast and slow, double exposure, overlap dissolve and etcetera. He converted the cinema into a storytelling medium, he construct a studio near Paris and produced many films at there and longer films included Cinderella and A trip to the Moon. The author put forward that Melies was respected as the first artist of cinema.

In the listening passage, the professor bolsters the materials of the reading passage by expanded them.
He states that Melies invented stop action accidentally and he describes the event. Then he explains that Melies was the first one that produced animation in his movies and describes about A Trip to the Moon film that how animation was showed at it. and then points that Melies was the first one that offered long movies because until that time all of films were 1 minute or less but Melies made a new techniques that today's we call it overlapping which is a scene appears when before become faded.

TOEFL listening lectures: The professor mentions watermelons as an example of what?

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Reading

At the dawn of cinema in the 1980s, audiences were fascinated by everyday actions being captured on film: a train pulling into the station, a family eating breakfast, and soldiers marching in a parade. Then the French filmmaker George Melies demonstrated that films could do far more than merely record everyday life. Melies, a professional magician and theater operator, decided that the new medium could be used effectively in his magic act. After much experimentation with a moving-pictures camera, he realized that film could be manipulated in countless ways. In time, he developed such new techniques as the fade-out, overlap dissolve, stop action, superimposition, double exposure, fast and slow motion, animation, and a host of other devices that he used hid findings with invention and wit. Melies transformed the cinema into a storytelling medium. At a time when most film-makers were content to photograph the real world, Melies was creating his own fantasy world. In his specially built studio near Paris, he produced more than a thousand films between 1896 and 1914. They ranged from brief shorts that were one minute long, to much longer films that ran for twenty minutes. The longer films included Cinderella (1899) and A Trip to the Moon (1920).
Very popular in their day, the trick films of Melies were shown, often without his permission all over Europe and North America starting around 1900. At that time, the films were regarded as charming and witty, and Melies was respected as the first artist of cinema. Although primitive by today's standards, the films of Melies revealed the cinema's unique and almost limitless possibilities for trickery and special effects, possibilities that continue to evolve with today's computer technology.

George Melies invented several techniques that have now become basics of film-making. One of these is the special effect of stop-action photography. Melies discovered stop action almost by accident . He bought a camera and started filming everything in sight; crowds, traffic, fire engines-anything that moved. One day, While he was filming a truck moving down the street, his camera jammed. By the time he got the camera working again, there was a hearse where the truck had been before. Later, when he watched the film, what he saw was a truck turning magically into a hearse. So, it was by chance,a camera jamming,that he invented stop action.
Another techniques Melies introduced was animation, which we can see in his most famous film, "A Trip to the Moon" In the animated sequence, we see the moon in the distance and a spaceship moving toward it. As the spaceship moves closer, the moon becomes larger and larger until it's giant-sized. The moon gradually takes on the shape of a living, grotesque, smiling face. Suddenly the spaceship lands in one of the moon's eyes. The animated face frowns and grimaces, and then huge tears flow from the eye. It's really an amazing sequence, especially when you realize it was made over a hundred years ago!

Melies realized very early on that films were stories told in scenes, and scenes could be staged for the camera with the aid of scenery and elaborately designed costumes. One of his most important contributions was to extend the length of films to tell a story. Before this, a film was a single shot, complete in itself, and usually ran for only a minute or less. But Melies put several scenes together into a single story for the first time in 1899 in Cinderella. The various scenes in Cinderella were linked by dissolves—a technique where one scene fades out while the next scene appears behind it and grows clearer as the first one disappears. This technique is also called overlap dissolve because one scene overlaps another.

In this set of materials, in the reading passage the author explains about new actions that George Melies, France filmmaker, offers to the cinema and in the listening passage the professor supports them.

In the reading passage, the author explains that before Melies's films, all movies showed just everyday actions, but Melies believed that movies should not only record everyday life. He offered some innovation in his films like stop action, fast and slow, double exposure, overlap dissolve etc,etcetera. He converted the cinema into a storytelling medium. He constructed a studio near Paris and produced many films there and his longer films included "Cinderella" and "A trip to the Moon." The author put forward that Melies was respected as the first artist of cinema.

In the listening passage, the professor bolsters the materials of the reading passage by expanded them.
He states that Melies invented stop action accidentally and he describes the background to this invention.. Then he explains that Melies was the first one to produce animation in his movies, and describes about the film, "Trip to the Moon" and how animation was shown in it. He then points out that Melies was the first one that offered long movies because until that time all films were only one minute or less in length, but Melies created a new techniques that today we call over-lapping, which is when one scene appears before the previous one completely fades out.
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