POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: D. W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Motion Picture Production Code

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Pol 128 week 5 lecture 2: film history. Readings and lectures covering the first three parts in the course outline. Went downhill and then became very successful. Origins in photography: photography invented in the early 19th century, time of technological change telegraph and telephone. 1890s moving images came along: projectors and cameras were invented, people were obsessed with technology at this time. A bet was created: when a horse is running is there a point when all four feet of the horse are off the ground. Stanford went to muybridge to try to prove this point. Muybridge set up a line of cameras and when a horse began to run each camera would snap a picture this gave the illusion of a moving image. It was discovered that there is a point when a horse is running that all four feet are off the ground: jule marey (1882) Created the first camera to present moving image.