FilmStudies 1-1 Birth of Film
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Early cinema
Film Studies 1-1 Birth of Film
When was the last time you spent 2 hours in a movie theater?
What did you watch?
What is the historical relevance of what you watched in relation to
the medium of FILM?
Why is it important to understand the historical references of
an art or industry?
Persistence of Vision
The phenomenon where the eye remembers what it has just seen after the object has disappeared
1500
Leonardo Da Vinci
Camera Obscura
1515
Magic Lantern
Developed in 17th century
1832
Joseph Plateau
He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image
The Phenakistoscope
1834
William George Horner
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1877
Emile Reynaud
The Praxinoscope
1872
Leland Stanford
Governor of California
Insisted a horse takes all four feet off the ground during full stride
To settle a $25,000 bet,
Stanford hired San Francisco photographer Edweard Muybridge
Edweard Muybridge
1878
The American photographer made a series of photographs of a running horse by using a series of cameras
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To display his findings, Muybridge adapted a Zoetrope to create the
Zoopraxinoscope
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1882
Etienne-Jules Marey
French scientist also interested in analyzing the movement of animals
Invented a camera that recorded 12 separate images on a revolving disc
Chronophotographic gun
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1888
Marey built the first camera to use a flexible strip of film, on paper
1889
George Eastman introduced a crude and flexible film base:
CELLULOID
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but I got off track
The projection of the images was not perfect.
Until a revolutionary concept occured
1893
Thomas A. Edison
Edison and his assistant,
W.K.L. Dickson,
developed a camera that made short 35mm films
The Kinetoscope
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Monkey SHines
The first ever Motion Picture
