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Film HistoryThe Beginnings
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Three Ways to Look atFilm History
Technology
Art Business
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Inventors
Early film is a result of inventors,not artists.
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Persistence of Vision
The ability of the brain to retain an image a split second longer than the eye actually sees it.
If we see 16 individual images in rapid succession the brain connects them to make a fluid sequence of movement.
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Toy Makers
Toy makers used this theory to create hand held machines that were the basis of film development.
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11/3/14
Daily Question: What does a zoetrope have in common with movies of today?
NotesRatatouilleQuiz on film
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Zoetrope
Circular drumwith slits.
allows momentsof darkness.
creates illusionof movement.
1834 by William Horner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5khDGKGv088
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ExperimentationWas going on
in many countriesat the same time.
France, Germany, England, and the U.S. all claim to have inventedthe movies.
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PhotographyHad to have photography before motion pictures
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Important Dates
1816 - Nicephore Niepce made first photographic images.
1839 - Louis Daguerre created clear, sharp images on silver copperplate. Required 15
minutes exposure time.
1841 - Only 3 minutes needed for exposure.
Daguerre Self-portrait
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Eadweard Muybridge
1872 - Set up 12 cameras along a track, tied strings to the shutters which were tripped as the horse ran down the track.
Created movement with photography.http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/
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Etienne-Jules Marey
1882 Invents
“photographic gun.”
Lens in the muzzle, paper in the chamber.
Pull trigger and have 12 rapid exposures.
Eventually 100 exposures.
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Wednesday, November 5
Daily Question: What impact do movies, TV and electronic media have in your life?
AGENDA: FINISH RATATOUILLEQuiz on RatatouilleNotesTomorrow: IMPROV DAY….if no more checkmarks! YES!
Homework: Oatmeal or other container like it.
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George Eastman
1884Developed
celluloid film.Originally
created for the still camera, it made motion pictures possible.
Flexible and allows light to pass through.
Eastman and Edison make movies
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1889William
Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) begins using celluloid film.
First film in America.
Fred Ott’s Sneeze
http://www.archive.org/details/ThomasEdisonCo.FredOttSneeze
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Motion Picture Photography Solved!Filmmakers now had to find a way to show their images.
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KinetoscopeOctober 1889
Dickson shows Edison projection with sound.
Quality is poor.Edison opts for
silent, individual showings of films.
Invents Kinetoscope.
Kinetoscope Open
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Kinetoscope
Kinetoscopes were set up in parlors .
You would see dancing, juggling, clowning, wonders of the world, a few re-enactments.
No stories yet. Kinetoscope Closed
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Thomas Edison
Despite Edison’s shortsightedness in mass projection he did leave his mark on motion pictures.
He contributed sprocket holes on film.
Black Maria. First movie studio.
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Black Maria
Camera could only move forward and backward.
Roof opened to allow sunlight in.
Building rotated to catch sun’s rays.
Camera used electricity.
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These are a few of the contributions from America. The history now goes back to Europe.
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ProjectionProjection was a difficult problem to solve. Its roots go back as far as 1646.
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Magic Lantern1646Father
Athanasius Kircher made drawings of a box that could reproduce an image through a lens.
Ancestor of present day slide projector.
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18th Century
Showmen travel across Europe showing magic lantern shows.
Used drawn images in the beginning.
Eventually used photographs.
Phantasmagoria
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19th Century
Photo plays drew viewers to a story just as film does today.
Combination of magic lantern shows, live actors, and photography.
Some lasted up to 2 hours and told melodramatic stories.
Proved the potential of projected film.
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Projection Problems
Projector needs a powerful light source to make images clear.
Film has to run smoothly past this light source without tearing.
Vitascope Projector
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Late 19th Century
Discovered intermittent movement was needed (similar to Zoetrope slits).
Each frame stops briefly in front of the light source.
Ended problem of the light source and tearing.
Created problem of burning film. Invented cooling system (similar to
today’s).
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Lumiere Brothers
1894Tinker with
Edison’s Kinetoscope.
Designed their own machine within a year.
Auguste and Louis
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Cinematographe
Machine shot the pictures, printed them, and projected them.
The camera was portable. A hand crank
provided the power.
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December 28, 1895First theater
opens to the paying public.
Basement of a Paris café.
Lumieres’ show: Workers leaving
the Lumiere Factory.
Arrival at Lyon. A Baby’s Meal.