film history
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Film History. The Beginnings. Three Ways to Look at Film History. Business. Art. Technology. Inventors. Early film is a result of inventors, not artists. Persistence of Vision. The ability of the brain to retain an image a split second longer than the eye actually sees it. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Film HistoryThe Beginnings
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Three Ways to Look atFilm History
Technology
Art Business
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InventorsEarly film is a
result of inventors,not artists.
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Persistence of VisionThe 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 MakersToy makers used this
theory to create hand held machines that were the basis of film development.
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ZoetropeCircular drum
with slits.allows
momentsof darkness.
creates illusionof movement.
1834 by William Horner.
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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 18161816 - Nicephore
Niepce made first photographic images.
18391839 - Louis Daguerre created clear, sharp images on silver copperplate. Required 15 minutes
exposure time.18411841 - Only 3
minutes needed for exposure.
Daguerre Self-portrait
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Eadweard Muybridge18721872 - Set up 12
cameras along a track, tied strings to the shutters which were tripped as the horse ran.
Created movement with photography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
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Etienne-Jules Marey1882 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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George Eastman18841884Developed
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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18891889William
Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) begins using celluloid film.
First film in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaJ1r0udvQ&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Fred Ott’s Sneeze
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Motion Picture Photography Solved!Filmmakers now had to find a way to show their images.
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KinetoscopeOctober 18891889
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 EdisonDespite 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 MariaCamera 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 Lantern16461646Father 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 CenturyShowmen travel
across Europe showing magic lantern shows.
Used drawn images in the beginning.
Eventually used photographs.
Phantasmagoria
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19th CenturyPhoto 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 ProblemsProjector 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 CenturyDiscovered 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 18941894Tinker with
Edison’s Kinetoscope.
Designed their own machine within a year.
Auguste and Louis
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CinematographeMachine 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQeIRLxaM4&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active.
Arrival at Lyon. A Baby’s Meal.